Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Republic of Senegal, Alhaji Brima Elvis Koroma, on Tuesday June 30, 2020, visited Malika, a community in Senegal where 87 Sierra Leonean victims of Human trafficking are being held. At the Malika Community, the Ambassador and entourage were received by the Commandant of the Malika Police Division who briefed him on the state of affairs about the 87 victims. Thereafter, they were taken to the premises...Read More
The Legal Aid Board and the Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs (MoGCA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen response to Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV). The ceremony took place in the conference room of the Ministry at Cockle Bay in the west-end of Freetown on 30 June 2020. The MOU establishes guidelines and commitments for collaboration in the operation of the One Stop Centers to...Read More
Women of Bramaia Chiefdom in Kambia District have claimed that some staff attached to the Community Health Centre sometimes refuse to treat mothers and their babies who refuse to pay money. Speaking on behalf of a group of lactating mothers at Kukuna, the chiefdom headquarter town, Abibatu Kamara, a lactating mother, explained that nurses sometimes refuse to administer treatments to them “and sometimes refuse to treat their children because we...Read More
Bintu Mansaray, the wife of Dr. Mahmoud Mansaray, now deceased, was on Thursday July 2, 2020 remanded at the Female Correctional Centre by Magistrate Marke Ngegba of Court No. 2 on Pademba Road for the allegedly killing her husband. She is currently been preliminarily investigated for the charge of murder contrary to law. Police alleged that the accused Bintu Mansaray on March 30, 2020, at Murray Town Barracks Freetown murdered...Read More
Magistrate Marke Ngegba on Thursday July 2, 2020, ordered for two persons, Saidu Fofanah alias “shakur” and Komba Sandy alias “kartel”, to be remanded at the Male Correctional Centre on Pademba Road in Freetown. The two are charged with the crimes of conspiracy, robbery with aggravation, wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. According to details of their charges, the accused persons on Friday April 10, 2020, at Bomba House,...Read More
