One of the toilets offered by Caritas Freetown to the Culvert Slum Community in Sierra Leone. Credit: Caritas Freetown By Agnes Aineah Culvert slum’s version of hanging toilets are little wooden, plastic and stone structures fitted with pipes that pour into the sewage that runs below them. Isata Samura who has been living in the slum outside Sierra Leone’s Capital city, Freetown, for over two decades, used the hanging toilets...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Three Police officers from the Criminal Investigations Department headquarters in Freetown on Monday, November 7, 2022, produced and tendered statements of accused persons to form part of the evidence in court. The accused persons were arraigned on Conspiracy, Murder, and Arson, charges. Detective Sergeant Augustine R. Lansana attached to the CID Headquarters in Freetown recalled August 17 when a team of detective police officers including himself arrived...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The Sierra Leone Insurance Association (SLIA) on Tuesday November 8, 2022 commenced a two-day insurance seminar on the theme: Building Trust and Confidence in the Insurance Industry, at the District Women’s Fellowship Hall, King Harman Road, Brookfields, in Freetown. The seminar was well attended by stakeholders in the insurance industry and it is part of the celebration of the insurance week starting Monday the 8th of...Read More
On Thursday 3 November 2022, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the World Food Programme (WFP), Talking Drum Studio (TDS) and the Sierra Leonean and Guinean authorities officially unveiled two border posts in Koindukura (Falaba district) and Hérémakono (Faranah prefecture) and 50 hectares of Inland Valley Swamps (IVS) implemented under the project ‘Building cross border peace and strengthening sustainable livelihoods of cattle herders and crop farmers in Sierra Leone and...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, the defence counsel in the ongoing trial of Mayor Aki-Sawyerr has on Friday 4th November, 2022 objected to the tendering of findings and observations contained in a witness report which had been reduced into writing. He noted that certain paragraphs in the said report are highly prejudicial and will not provide evidence which will assist the court to ascertain whether the accused is guilty...Read More
