The Initiatives for Destitutes Empowerment and Sustainability (IDES) has on Saturday January 30, 2021, fed and provided clothes for children of scavengers mainly engaged collecting empty water sachets and other plastic wastes deposited at the Bomeh dumpsite in Kingtom. It should be noted that people collect plastic wastes at Bomeh dumpsite amidst the stench of rotten waste, excreta, mosquitoes, and carbon mono oxide. The plastics which they gather will then...Read More
The Christian Lawyers Centre, also known as LEGAL LINK in this piece, has expressed concern over the prolonged detention of the 2018 flag-bearer of the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP), Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray who is standing trial on allegations of sexually penetrating a 15-year-old girl in Kono district. Kamarainba Mansaray reported to the police on July 2020, and has been in detention since. “We strongly aver that the prolonged detention of...Read More
Several communities in Tenenba, a section of Bramaia Chiefdom in Kambia District northern Sierra Leone, have benefitted from eight water wells funded by stakeholders in the community. According to Kabir Sumah, an elder in Tenenba, the beneficiary communities had been without water from boreholes for decades with their inhabitants drawing water from rivers, streams and dams instead. Sumah explained that previously water which they drew from the streams either gets...Read More
Bollore Transport and Logistics has on Friday, January 29, 2021, donated €5, 000 (Five thousand Euros), food items which include fifty bags of rice, cooked food and cutleries, crates of water and assorted soft drinks, and frames for symbolic display of the two organizations’ logos, to Don Bosco Fambul. The donation was made at the care centre of Don Bosco Fambul in During Town in the Western Area Rural District....Read More
The 50-50 Group of Sierra Leone, a group which advocates gender parity for women in the Country, has in a press statement dated 31st January 2021, lauded the efforts and achievements of three prominent women: Justice Miatta Samba, Dr. Hannah Max-Kyne and Mrs. Lara Taylor Pearce, for playing instrumental roles in Sierra Leone. The Group noted the efforts made over the years by the executive to support women who, on...Read More
