On February,22, 2022, Senior Human Rights advocates, including Abdul M. Fatoma,Chief Executive of the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI), made a formal request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Prison officials to visit Mr. Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray, an opposition politician, at one of the Sierra Leone Correctional Service’s facilities in Freetown. It would be recalled that on the 17th July 2020, police complaint of an alleged...Read More
One girl narrates to DW how she proved her mother and her teachers wrong by finishing school and starting college despite being a teenage mother. When MariatuAjiatuKalokoh got pregnant at 17, her parents were furious. “My mum wanted to drive me out of the house,” Mariatu, who lived at the time in Lumley Beach, on the western edge of the capital, Freetown, told DW. “But some of my neighbors spoke...Read More
More than half of parents and pregnant women exposed to aggressive formula milk marketing – WHO, UNICEF New report details exploitative practices employed by $55 billion formula industry, compromising child nutrition, violating international commitments GENEVA/NEW YORK, 22 February 2022 – More than half of parents and pregnant women (51 percent) surveyed for a new WHO/UNICEF report say they have been targeted with marketing from formula milk companies, much of which...Read More
Redenomination will commence soon, following a nationwide sensitization of the public, the Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone said recently. Professor Kelfala M. Kallon said in a conference in Bo City that, the Bank will soon commence a nationwide sensitization drive, titled “Operation New Money, Same Value”, across the length and breadth of this country. Redenomination is a recalibration of a nation’s currency by dividing it by a constant....Read More
Judiciary of Sierra Leone Communications, Main Law Courts Building, Freetown, 21st February 2022:High Court Judge, Hon. Justice Adrian Fisher has dismissed the Application by the defence team of Dr. Samura Kamara, the 2018 Presidential Candidate of the APC Party, seeking to quash the indictment upon which Dr. Samura and 5 others are standing trial at the High Court for corruption related offences. “Under the common law, an indictment may only...Read More
