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By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

The University of Sierra Leone (USL) is preparing to host the next conference of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA).

At the University’s first meeting about the conference, on Wednesday at Conference hall of the Administrative Building of Fourah Bay College (FBC), the Acting Deputy Vice Chancellor of FBC said it would be the first time for the University to host a conference of  “such magnitude.”

The United States diseases control tsar will visit Sierra Leone in the first week of August as part of an Ebola assessment tour of the West Africa region, the US embassy in Freetown announced Friday.

A child rights’ advocacy organization has launched an internship project for senior secondary school leavers, with particular focus on girls.

Kids Advocacy Network (KAN) is implementing the Post-Secondary School Youth Internship Programme (PSSIP) as part of its Youth Empowerment Strategy which is geared towards providing successful careers for young people in the country.

By Kemoh Sesay

The European Union (EU) has approved Le190 billion for the construction of the Bandajuma-Liberia-Border Road and three bridges across the Sewa, Moa and Wanje rivers.

By Mustapha Sesay

In spite of the alarming rate of unemployment rate in Sierra Leone, officials at the Human Recourses Management Office (HRMO) have revealed that over 1000 job positions remain vacant.

The officials told the parliamentary oversight committee on Transparency on Tuesday that there were “1,100 critical vacancies” in the civil service to be filled.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi               

A task force committee is being established to tackle child abuse and gender based violence with more aggression than before in the southern district of Pujehun.

The committee will design and enforce regulations to protect mainly young girls from sexual assaults and women from violence from men.

Sierra Leone is among 17 countries across the world that will benefit from a $1bn package aimed at promoting a global health agenda by the United States government in response to the world`s worst Ebola epidemic, according to a White House release on Tuesday.