A new policy by the Government of Sierra Leone requires all mining Company and other large-scale commercial interest companies enjoying fuel concessions to directly import their own fuel or enter into a foreign currency denominated contract with any of the oil marketing Companies and payment made in foreign currency effective June 1, 2022. This was...Read More
Former President of Sierra Leone, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma is in Dakar to participating in a two-day sub-regional dialogue on sustaining democratic principles in West Africa organised by the West African Elders Forum (WAEF). The dialogue Forum which is taking place at the Terrou-Bi hotel, attracts states and non-state actors and subregional groups. The former...Read More
The Legal Aid Board (LAB) on Monday, May 11, 2022, secured the acquittal and discharge of a couple arraigned on murder charges from a Freetown High Court presided by Hon. Justice John Bosco Alieu, JA. The two, Daymoh Bangura and her husband, Sholay Val-Renner, who had been in court on a two-count charge of conspiracy...Read More
Sierra Leone’s President) Dr. Julius Maada Bio on Tuesday, May 10, 2022 affirmed the review of the Local Content Act 2016.President Bio made this disclosure during the State Opening of Parliament in the Chamber of Parliament Building Tower Hill, Freetown.“The Agency will soon review the Local Content Act 2016 to address grey areas and take...Read More
The Legal Aid Board (LAB) has secured funding from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to strengthen the Board’s capacity to support access to justice for victims of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) cases and provide primary justice services in three chiefdoms in the Moyamba district. The project is aimed at ensuring timely and...Read More
The Director of Tourism, Mohamed Jalloh has on Tuesday May 10, 2022 presented opportunities for investment in the tourism sector to the Spanish Ambassador to Sierra Leone and Guinea, Christian Font Calderon. He made this presentation when Ambassador Calderon and the Honorary Counsel of Spain, Antonio Yazbeck paid a courtesy visit on the Deputy Minister...Read More
President Dr Julius Maada Bio has told Parliament, in a live broadcast on multiple platforms, that Sierra Leone has transitioned from the UN Peacebuilding Fund framework and is now transforming into a just, peaceful, cohesive, and productive nation. “Accordingly, we have significantly improved our capacity for national planning, resource mobilisation, and coordination of development...Read More
The Ministry of Health and Sanitation and the U.S. government’s President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) have launched an indoor residual spraying (IRS) campaign that will protect over 670,000 people from malaria in Bo and Bombali districts. “Spraying homes to kill the mosquitos is one of the key strategies we use to keep people safe from malaria,” Dr. Dave...Read More
Defense Counsel Applies for High Court Interpretation of Magistrate’s Ruling After Magistrate Sahr Kekura presiding over the Pademba Road Court No. 1 ruled against defense counsel on a jurisdictional objection raised in the matter between the State versus Alhaji Kemoh Sesay, former Minister of Works under the Koroma regime. Lead defense counsel, lawyer Charles Francis...Read More
President Julius Maada Bio has said on Thursday that, the Government will plant in excess of 5 million trees in the next five years in order to change Sierra Leone’s “brown-neck” image as the third most vulnerable country to climate change, . He made this statement in his speech during the State Opening of the...Read More
