By Sallieu S. Kanu On Friday, February 7, 2025, a day after the successful African Urban Heat Summit, the Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, led a delegation on a tour of key climate resilience and heat adaptation projects initiated by the Freetown City Council (FCC). The delegation included the Mayors of Monrovia and Paynesville, the CEO, Board Chair, and staff members of Climate Resilience for All, the CEO of...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka In the ongoing court martial, both state prosecutors and defense counsels delivered their closing arguments yesterday, urging the board members to consider their respective positions as they prepare to render a verdict on the six accused military personnel. The trial, which commenced on Thursday, before Judge Advocate Mark Ngegba and six board members, involves Major Patrick Abu Ordende Sesay, also known as PAO, and five other members...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Freetown, February 7, 2025 – Twenty-year-old Julius Aruna Mongoh, a scrap metal worker, made his first appearance before Magistrate Sahr Kekura at Pademba Road Court No.1 in Freetown on Friday, facing charges of malicious damage and larceny. According to court particulars, on February 1, 2025, at the Government Printing Department in New England Ville, Freetown, Mongoh allegedly caused malicious damage to four air conditioners, each valued at...Read More
In rural Sierra Leone, a movement of community story-sharing is reaching women with life-changing information In a village in the Western Area Rural District of Sierra Leone, a group of women and girls have gathered. Some perching children on their knees, they sit on wooden benches arranged in a square. At their centre, balanced on a yellow plastic water carrier, is a radio. That solar-powered unit is their connection to...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Freetown, February 6, 2025 – The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone has ruled that private citizens cannot be forcibly removed from their land, reaffirming the protection of private property as guaranteed under Section 21 of the 1991 Constitution. The judgment was delivered in the case of Theophilus Pratt and Hawanatu Pratt v. Dr. Turad Senessie, Minister of Lands, the Director of Surveys Abdul Rahman Sesay, Adonis Bull,...Read More
