FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (Mar. 23, 2022) – With the arrival of just over 500,000 new vaccines from the United States to Sierra Leone in March alone, the United States reached an important milestone of 500 million vaccines donated world-wide, the U.S. Embassy said in a statement on Wednesday.  The 200,000 Pfizer vaccines donated March 17 and the 302,200 Johnson & Johnson vaccines donated March 15 are part of the over...Read More

Detective Police Constable 13905 Mohamed Yusuf Jalloh attached to the Trans National Organized Crime Unit  (TOCU) has on Tuesday, March 22,  2022 tendered 37 cartoons of Tramadol in the preliminary investigation into the alleged Importation of drug involving a Nigeria National Marcel Okechuku Zoro.  The accused Marcel Okechuku Zoro was arraigned before Magistrate Sahr Kekura of Pademba Road Court No 1 on four count charges, including Importation of  class A...Read More

The Legal Aid Board (LAB) has conducted series of town hall meetings with over 500 stakeholders in Freetown, Waterloo, and Tombo in the Western Area Rural District. The engagements commenced in Freetown on Friday, March 11, 2022; followed by another in Freetown on Wednesday, March 16; Waterloo on Friday, 18 March 18, and Tombo on Saturday, March 19, 2022. The meetings which were funded by the Open Society Initiative for...Read More

 Ali Ahmad Hudroge has on Tuesday, March 22, 2022, testified in the ongoing preliminary investigation into the alleged Le1 billion theft involving his office assistant Mohamed Alami Tarawally.    The accused Mohamed Alami  Tarawally made his second appearance in court and was arraigned on one count charge of Office Breaking and Larceny.  According to the particulars of the offence, Mohamed Alami Tarawally  on Sunday, December 26, 2021, at Ali Ahmad Hudroge...Read More

Only 38% of the Auditor General’s recommendations were implemented in the last six years (2015-2020), according to finding of the Audit Tears: “Audit Uptake and Integrity in Sierra Leone” done by the Institute of Governance Reform (IGR). The Executive Director of IGR, Andrew Lavallie said on Tuesday that there is every need for local and international stakeholders to be concerned about the absence of conversations on audit uptake and fiduciary...Read More