Kingho Mining Company Limited has during the public disclosure of an addendum to its current Environmental and Social, Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA) for the construction of a Tailings Beneficiation Plant at the Tonkolili Iron Ore Mines, got an absolute approval from stakeholders of the mining concessions chiefdoms of Sambaia, Simiria and Dansogoia.The meeting which took place on Saturday, April 30, 2022, at the court barry in Bumbuna Town, saw representatives...Read More
the Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE was in The Hague, Netherlands on Thursday, April 28, where she had the honor of delivering the keynote address at the Draper Richards Kaplan (DRK) Foundation international retreat. DRK Foundation is a global venture philanthropy firm supporting early stage, high impact social enterprises. They believe that with early funding and rigorous support, exceptional leaders, tackling some of society’s most complex problems, can make...Read More
The judge said prosecutors had failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Massaquoi committed the crimes of rape, ritual murder, torture and recruitment of child soldiers during the war. A court in Finland has acquitted Gibril Massaquoi, the former Revolutionary United Front commander in Sierra Leone, of all the charges in his year-long trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity during Liberia’s civil war between 1999-2003. In an...Read More
The Public Education Unit of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Office in Kono has held a customized sensitization engagement with staff of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) in the district on ‘Mainstreaming Anti-Corruption measures and maintaining Effective Service Delivery’. The meeting, which took place on April 26, 2022 in the conference room of the Ministry in Koidu City, was intended to raise awareness on corruption issues and discuss anti-corruption...Read More
Thirty-two survivors of obstetric fistula who successfully underwent surgery at the Aberdeen Women’s Centre [AWC] with funding support from the Government of Iceland through UNFPA were on Friday, April 22, 2022 reunited with their families. In a brief discharge ceremony of the first set of 19 women at the Centre in Freetown, Deputy Representative of UNFPA, Sibeso Mululuma, encouraged the survivors to serve as ambassadors by talking to those women...Read More
