By Fatima Kpaka Tongo, April 17, 2023: The Legal Aid Board has provided legal representation to accused persons arraigned in the first post-war magistrate court sittings presided by Magistrate in Tongo Town in the Lower Bambara Chiefdom in the Kenema District in the Eastern Region. The sessions were the first since the end of the country’s civil war in January 2002. The sittings were held on the 11 -14 April...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana In a bid to conduct a violence free election, the National Security Coordinator of the Office of National Security (ONS), Mr. Abdulai Caulker Wednesday, April 19, 2023, assured that the Military Aid to Civil Power (MAC-P) will be robustly enforced during and after the June 24 elections. He made this comment during the security sector press conference held on Wednesday on threatening social media posts...Read More
‘It has to pay for the girls to leave sex work. If they cannot earn as much, then they will always go back.’ By Ngozi Monica Cole Shanna Jones When Oxfam staff in Haiti were caught paying earthquake survivors for sex, many aid organisations moved to overhaul their safeguarding policies and tried to clamp down on the practice of transactional sex, noting the power disparities between staff and the people they serve. But five years after the 2018...Read More
By Fatima Kpaka Sierra Leone’s Newly Appointed Statistician-General & Chief Executive Officer of Stats SL, Andrew Bob Johnny has been unanimously elected to represent Sierra Leone on the UN Statistical Commission This will be the second successive term Sierra Leone will be serving on the UN Statistical Commission, the highest statistical body of the UN. Mr Johnny, whose four – year tenure on the UN Statistical Commission starts effective January...Read More
By Shojobi Abisola The Leader of INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Primate Elijah Ayodele has released fresh prophecies for some African nations including Sudan, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In a statement signed by his media aide, Osho Oluwatosin, Primate Ayodele made it known that the only way President Julius Maada Bio can win the election is if there are no coalitions against him. He advised him to strategize and change economic...Read More
