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Over One hundred teenage girls from the 14 Administrative Districts of Sierra Leone have called on Government to develop a National Girls Empowerment Policy to protect teenage girls from sexual harassment, early marriage, teenage pregnancy, rape, among other societal exploitations.

These recommendations came out of a recently concluded National Girls Empowerment Forum which ended Monday 29^th June.

It was organized by the Kids Advocacy Network (KAN) with support from World Bank and the One Family People organization.

Former military head of state of Sierra Leone under the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) has broken his silence on the late Col. Yayah Kanu and others and the executions that followed in, ruling out regrets.,

Former head of state Captain Valentine Strasser has denied that he was ever deported from the United Kingdom where he spent part of his life studying after the countercoup that ousted him.

Strasser ruled Sierra Leone up to 1996 after seizing power in 1992. He became the world’s youngest head of state at the time.

After his nearly four year rule, he relocated to the UK where he underwent studies. But he faced difficulties there, all of which he blamed on negative press. He also was even attacked and an attempt was made on his life.

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Clashes over land between residents of Kamasoko and Kamawornie villages in the Sela Limba Chiefdom, Kamakwie in the northern district of Bombali have left ten people injured.

Abu Conteh, an indigene of Kamawornie village, told Politico that violence between the two villages broke out when Lamin Samura,the headman of Kamawornie village along with some residents of Kamasoko village went to work on a piece of land which some students in the Kamawornie village had already identified to do  some work.

By Mustapha Sesay

Sierra Leone has finally ratified the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, commonly referred to as the Maputo Protocol.

The ratification by Parliament last week Thursday comes nearly 12 years since the country signed the Protocol which was created to supplement the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Right after it was widely observed that the latter failed to capture specific issues considered of grave importance to womanhood.

By Mustapha Kamara Jr

Media stakeholders from different media and academic institutions and senior legal luminaries in the country, have reviewed and made relevant recommendations to the proposed media bills, which are intended to bring reforms in the media landscape of Sierra Leone.

By Mustapha Kamara Jr

The Political Parties’ Registration Commission (PPRC) has said they will cease mediation into the matter between the national executive of the Sierra Leone People’s Party and Alie Essa Bangura, a former member of the party.

Its commissioner, Justice Tholla Thompson, said the complainant Amb Bangura’s representatives abruptly decided to abandon the negotiations process to go to court.