The World Bank Board of Executive Directors has on July 21, 2020, approved US$30 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to support agricultural productivity and access to markets for smallholder farmer-agribusiness in Sierra Leone, The Bank said in statement on Tuesday. This additional financing for the Smallholder Commercialization and Agribusiness Development Project (SCADeP) will enable the project to invest in roads and bridges to improve connectivity thereby providing access to...Read More
The Sierra Leone Correctional Service has in a statement informed the public that on July 21, 2020, it released 153 inmates who were held at various correctional facilities across the country after they had been pardoned by President Julius Maada Bio on April 29, 2020. Initially, 234 inmates were identified for release, but due to the riot at the Male Correctional Centre on Pademba Road in Freetown on April 29,...Read More
The Network Movement for Justice and Development (NMJD), a national civil society human rights and development organization has on Tuesday July 21, 2020 strongly condemned the recent killings of protesting civilians in the northern headquarter town of Makeni allegedly by the Sierra Leone Police. “We are deeply disappointed by the alleged use of live bullets by the Sierra Leone Police to disperse unarmed civilian protesters. This action was uncalled for...Read More
The presidential candidate for the opposition All Peoples Congress party in the 2018 presidential election, Dr. Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara has in a press release on Sunday July 19, 2020, called for calm at Makeni after violent riot which left five dead and several others injured. In the press statement, Dr. Kamara condemned violence in all forms and called on the youths and security forces to observe tranquility. He added that...Read More
The main opposition All People’s Congress Political Party (APC) has in a statement put out on Monday July 20, 2020 said that Mr. Mohamed Konneh the appointee of President Bio for the position of Electoral Commissioner of National Electoral Commission (NEC), is not qualified for the position because “he did not meet the conditions precedent as set out in Section 32(4) (a) & (b) of the 1991 Constitution of Sierra...Read More
