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August 2013

He was seriously manhandled apart from his rights seized and abused on Friday 2nd August. Alie Mozart Sesay a reporter for the prominent Torchlight Newspaper, who is also likely to become  one of the country’s

The Public Financial Management Reform Unit in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development {MoFED} has on Wednesday 31st July 2013 held a wrap up meeting with the Pre-Appraisal Mission Team from the World Bank,

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) wishes to inform the general public that Rev. Hassan Mansaray, President 4HIM Sierra Leone and General Overseer, Lords Mission Church, and Abdul Aziz Bangura, Accountant 4HIM Sierra Leone, have been sentenced

Lunsar- (1 August 2013) – London Mining and Bollore African Logistics would like to use this opportunity to address issues raised in media reports concerning London Mining haulage contract: That Bollore Africa Logistics is a brand

ABOUT EID PRAYER This is a little longer than usual but InshaAllah very beneficial and useful for every muslim around the world. This is our Last class for "FIQH OF RAMADAN" InshaAllah we will have the

Since 2010, there has been significant institutional progress for press freedom in Africa. The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) passed a resolution in November of that year urging governments to repeal criminal

Do you know an African NGO that deserves $100,000?  Encourage them to apply for the '2013 ONE Africa Award' It’s that time of year again- when we open for applications for the 6th ONE Africa Award.  Every

I am aware that avid readers of my musings would often wonder why I am always lamenting the sorry state of affairs in the country and in our governance. Some would argue and correctly too, that

When recently a journalist - Jonathan Leigh - was made to sleep in the smelly cells of the country’s central maximum prison for alleged criminal defamatory libel, I was left without no option but soliloquized,

Dauda Kallon (36), farmer of Mano Njoigbla village, Lansana Kallon (50), Saffa Ellie Kallon (55), Ansumana Saffa Kallon (50), Adu Kallon (70), and Brima Saffa Kamara,. all of Mano Njoigbla village, on Wednesday 31st July

With a deep sense of patriotism and high  resolve, I am fully committed to one obligation - the obligation to devote every effort of my body, mind and spirit to lead the land that we

Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) have commenced a three day training session for Sierra Leonean Journalists at Santano House, Freetown from 31st to the 2nd August 2013 on ethical reporting on issues affecting children. The international

The Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS) on Thursday August 1st organized a one day training workshop in Freetown on the mandate and activities of the SLRCS in peace time and situations of disasters and

The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa [GIABA] recently organized an open house forum for youths on Anti–Money Laundering/Counter financing of terrorism [AML/CFT] in Sierra Leone on the theme, “Mobilizing the youths

The people of Constituency 002, which covers Upper Bambara and Luawa chiefdoms in the Kailahun district received food items worth Le17.5M as part of the Ramadan gesture from their parliamentarian Hon. Mustapha Brima, to help