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By Kemo Cham 

This year`s innovation award by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been won by an amputee.

The ‘Youth Innovation Award (YIA)’, the brainchild of the UN agency, is designed to promote innovation and new technology for development initiatives, as well as provide concrete solutions for sustainable development. It is held every year during the United Nations Week in 27-28 September, under the tag Social Good Summit.

Archippus T. Sesay was named out of 750 people across Sierra Leone who participated in the competition.

By Crispina Taylor

The Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) has in a one-day forum validated its strategic work plan for 2016-2020.

The PPRC is charged with the responsibility of overseeing the activities of political parties, register, monitor and regulate their activities. The strategic plan serves as an instrument to guide the commission towards fulfilling this mandate.

By Politico Writer

Mr. Parminder S. Brar has been unveiled as new Country Manager for the World Bank in Sierra Leone.

He resumes work effective October 1, 2015, a statement from the bank`s office in Freetown notes.

Parminder, an Indian, replaces Francis Ato Brown, Ghanaian, who served in the office for the last three years.

A cross section of the striking workers

Police have arrested three striking workers of the Sierra Leone Bottling Company (formerly Cold Storage) as a standoff continues between them.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

Flooding has left over 2,000 people displaced in the southern Sierra Leone district of Pujehun, a report by the District Disaster Assessment Team reveals. They include 750 women, 937 children and 622 men.

It notes that 378 households were affected, leaving millions of leones worth of property damaged.

The affected chiefdoms were Kapak, Barri, Mano Sakrim, Sorogbeima, YKK, Kpanga Krim and Kpanga Kabondeh.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

A civil society activist in Pujehun has called for investigation of the district census officer over a missing computer.

The missing laptop computer is said to contain information on the ongoing 2015 National Population and Housing Census.

District Census Officer Sheku Soko Tarawally admitted that a computer he used as part of his work had gone missing from his office, during interviews conducted for applicants for the positions of enumerators, field officers and supervisors.

The Anti Corruption Commission says it has commenced prosecuting a suspect over allegation he defrauded a foreign investor.

British telecommunications investor, Dominic Anselm Joseph Beary, allegedly parted with some US$800, 000, transferred to the accused, Mohamed Osman Sesay (alias assassin), who claimed to be a local agent helping him secure an international gateway licence.