The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone (HRCSL) has on Thursday October 15, 2020, called on Sierra Leoneans to cultivate a sense of nationalism and patriotism so that loyalty to the State shall override sectional, ethnic, tribal or other loyalties. The Commission made this call after residents of Makeni obstructed officials the ACC from interviewing the...Read More
The Rainbo Initiative in partnership with Save the Children with funding from Irish Aid has on Monday October 19, 2020, commenced a five-day training session for healthcare workers in Public Health Unit (PHU), officers of the Family Support Unit (FSU) of the Sierra Leone Police and other key stakeholders in various communities, on response and referral...Read More
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has denied an allegation put out in an article, published in the Africanist online newspaper, dated 15th October 2020; which seems to suggest that it has not taken action on a sum of “Le3.2 billion foreign travel tax revenue missing in Sierra Leone” from the National Revenue Authority (NRA). The ACC put...Read More
While the sole agent for the export of timber from Sierra Leone, Babadi Kamara of Leadway Company, has told journalists that his company has generated over US$50 million as revenue for the government in two years, timber harvesters across the country have noted that government would have realized more if the trade had been liberalized. The...Read More
Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Sean Cairncross, on Friday held discussion with President Julius Maada Bio on progress on the threshold programme, which seeks to improve the financial viability of the water and electricity sectors in Sierra Leone. As part of his two-day (October 15 and 16) visit to the country, Cairncross...Read More
