Prison and detention center conditions were harsh and sometimes life threatening due to food shortages, gross overcrowding, an inefficient justice system, lack of sufficient correctional facilities and personnel, physical abuse, lack of clean water, inadequate sanitary conditions, and a lack of proper medical care in prison facilities, according to the U.S. Country Report on Human Rights Practices for 2021. Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor report...Read More
Freetown, April 14- The Mano River Ecosystem Conservation and International Water Resources Management project has held a national review and validation of the Regional Synthesis report of the Transboundary Diagnostic Analyses (TDA) in Bo. The event brought together the Minister and top officials of the Ministry of Water Resources, the Deputy Minister and top officials of the Ministry of Environment, officials from the Ministry of Fisheries, Ministry of Mines, The...Read More
Mineral sands miner Iluka will demerge its Sierra Leone mines, less than five years after spending $375 million on what proved to be troubled assets, to focus on Australia and diversifying into rare earths. If the demerger is approved by Iluka shareholders Sierra Rutile will list on the ASX and be chaired by outgoing Iluka chairman Greg Martin. Martin on Wednesday told his last annual general meeting that the west...Read More
The United Nation Resident Coordinator,Babatunde Ahonsi, on Monday, April 11, 2022, presented the United Nations Annual Results report for 2021 to the Vice President of Sierra Leone at the Country Lodge in Freetown. The UN Annual Results Report is way of taking stock of the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework, which is aligned to the Medium-Term National Development (2019-2023), and the progress towards attaining the 2030 Agenda...Read More
Supreme Court has overturned the decision of three Appeal Court Judges-Hon. Justice E. Taylor-Kamara ; Hon. Justice Sulaiman A. Bah and Hon. Justice Fatmata B. Alhadi delivered on August 10, 2020 against the Appellant-Emmanuel Ekundayo Constant Shears-Moses Esq. The Supreme Court was presided by Hon. Justice Allan B. Halloway (JSC); Hon. Justice Alusine S. Sesay (JSC); Hon. Justice Mangay F. Deen- Tarawally (JSC); Hon. Justice M. Sengu Koroma (JSC) and...Read More
