The Committee on Gender and Children’s Affairs in the Parliament of Sierra Leone chaired by Hon. Catherine Zainab Tarawally, has on Monday, October 31, 2022 concluded an oversight inspection on the Rainbow Centres in Pujehun, Kenema and Kailahun Districts respectively. The One Stop and Rainbow Centres were established in some Government Hospitals across the country to facilitate free medical support to victims of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) across the...Read More
By Alimatu Jalloh Syril Harold Smith, a man who identified himself as an Investigative Journalist, was on Friday 4th November, 2022 arraigned and admitted to bail in the sum of NLe 200, 000 after he made his first appearance before Magistrate Mark Ngegbe of Pademba Road Court No.1 in Freetown on the crime of fraudulent conversion to the tune of Le 102,000,000. Defendant Syril Harold smith was in court for...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Sierra Leone has again recorded very high score (79 percent) in the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) ‘Control of Corruption’ indicator, making it the fifth consecutive year the country recording huge progress in the MCC scorecard. Sierra Leone has consistently recorded outstanding scores in the MCC ‘Control of Corruption’ Scorecard, with 71 percent score in 2018, 79 percent in 2019, 81 percent in 2020, 83 percent in...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) and the National Security Sector institutions on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, join the world to commemorate the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, and to reiterate their collective commitment to work together and with other stakeholders to ensure the safety and security of journalists. November 2, 2022, marks exactly one year since the historic signing of...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana The Sierra Leone Local Content Agency (SLLCA) in collaboration with GIZ, a German Cooperation, and its partners on Wednesday, November 2, 2022, concluded a three-day stakeholders’ workshop on the review of the Local Content Agency Act 2016 in Freetown. The review process is supported by GIZ under the Regional Intergovernmental Organization (RIGO) system strengthening. The workshop brought together stakeholders from Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), multinational...Read More
