By Desmond Tunde Coker Sierra Leone’s senior male football team, the Leone Stars will play friendlies with Algeria and Rwanda from the 13th to 18th of November 2022 in preparation of the African Nations Cup (AFCON) 2023 qualifiers. Leone Stars recently lost two friendlies woefully conceding a total of seven goals and scoring none prompting the Sierra Leone Minister of Sports to question the ability of Leone Stars Head Coach...Read More
By Nick Roll Solomon K. Russell walks down a narrow dirt path, surrounded by teak trees that block out the sunlight and cool the afternoon air. He leaps over a column of fat black ants running across the trail, and the forest suddenly, unnaturally, ends. A denuded strip of beige earth stretches over an area the size of several football fields, pockmarked by pits full of wastewater. Machinery belonging to...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Justice Alhaji Momoh Jah Stevens JA has on Monday sentenced one Ibrahim Sorie Mumu Jalloh to Fifteen years imprisonment after finding him guilty of sexually penetrating a fourteen years old child. Jalloh, the convict had been charged for the offence of Sexual Penetration. M.P. Sesay, who represented the state in prosecuting the case, alleged that the convict committed the illegal act on the 31st of May 2022...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh The defense for Member of Parliament for the main opposition All People’s Congress party representing Constituency 066 in Karene district, Mohamed Bangura, has presented a no-case submission, while the defense for the Chairperson of the party in Tonkolili district, Yabom Sesay, failed to do so. During the hearing on November 8th 2022 at the Pademba Road Court No. 1 in Freetown, lawyer for the second accused (Sesay),...Read More
By Agnes Aineah The Justice and Peace arm of Caritas Freetown has joined organizations working to ensure that the June 2023 elections in Sierra Leone are free of chaos. The development and humanitarian arm of the Catholic Archdiocese of Freetown is one of the organizations that participated in a workshop that was organized by AGIAMONDO, a German development agency that is working with partner organizations to promote peace initiatives in...Read More
