Koninga inspecting a rat trap at a house in Mapuma village outside Kenema. Koninga is part of a group of researchers studying Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic disease endemic to several West African countries and transmitted by rodents. — AFP RUMMAGING in the darkness of a tiny mud and thatch home in eastern Sierra Leone, ecologist James Koninga plucks a metal rat trap from under a collapsed bedframe. The 62-year-old...Read More
By Bankolay Theodore Turay – The Conversation TUE, 20 AUG 2024 LISTEN Bora – a type of thank you gift – is a Sierra Leonean custom of respect that is often used in relation to land. For instance, informal farmers pay bora to landowners to be able to farm on their land. But bora has changed over the years and is having a negative impact on women, who are responsible for...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Ministry of Trade and Industry has closed 10 shops that were engaged in the selling of substandard iron rods, a senior government official said on Tuesday. The Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry Fatmata Kargbo told a regular news conference in Freetown that the government has implemented mechanisms requiring importers to obtain certification from the Ministry before importing iron rods. She said the Ministry has engaged...Read More
By George M. O. Williams The Deputy Director of Housing of the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Country Planning, Abu Bakarr Jalloh on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, told Premier News that the enforcement of building regulations is constrained by a lack of manpower, equipment, and financial resources, hostility against law enforcement officers, and interference by ‘interests from above’. It should be noted that there has been a surge in the...Read More
Isha S.Y. Sumah, a 20-year-old university student, has always had a strong desire to make a difference in her community. Growing up in a society where gender inequality and violence against women and girls were rampant, she witnessed firsthand the suffering of women abused by their husbands, often with no consequences for the perpetrators. These experiences fueled her determination to fight for a society free from Sexual and Gender-Based Violence...Read More
