Breaking News: Sierra Leone has cancelled the mining license of the iron ore miner, SL Mining. Mines minister Foday Rado Yokie told me it’s due to the company’s “noncompliance with their mining agreement”. It follows a long drawn-out and sometimes acrimonious disagreeing between the two over allegations of breaches of …
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Most of the southeast of Sierra Leone has been cut off from the country’s capital, Freetown after the collapse of a bridge in Gbaima Songa on the Bo highway. It followed a heavy downpour last night into this morning. Hundreds of people from especially Bo and Kenema are already stranded …
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The law was passed in 1965 clearly to suppress press freedom. It allows for pre-trial detention & under it truth is not a defence. Successive leaders since the 1990s promised and failed to repeal the law which journalists say is obnoxious, retrograde and bad for democracy.— Umaru Fofana (@UmaruFofana) September …
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Urgent need for a National Conference on education. We don’t need a band-aid let alone a bandage. We don’t need a placebo either. We need proper diagnosis and treatment of our crumbling education sector. Let’s meet as a nation. We have some bright brains here and abroad. Let them lead …
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#SierraLeone is among only six west African countries that met the minimum requirements of fiscal transparency for 2019 as listed by the US State Department. Senegal, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Cote D’Ivoire and Cape Verde are the others. The annual global report is published based on criteria including “having key budget …
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Breaking: The chambers of Magistrate Hannah Bonnie were broken into and “thoroughly” ransacked apparently over the weekend, according to #SierraLeone’s Director of Public Prosecution, Easmon Ngakui. Her offices are located next door to the country’s maximum security prison at Pademba Road. The magistrate, who’s presiding over the trial of 23 …
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Police have confirmed that the Chairman of the Western Area Rural District Council, Kasho Holland-Cole spent the night in detention. They say it’s in connection with the violent incident in Hamilton during an opposition APC rally nearly three weeks ago. Then, the opposition alleged that their rally ahead of a …
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Breaking News: The Director of Safety at the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration says they have received distress calls from local passenger boats amid the heavy rain but that they can’t go to the rescue because the condition is terrible at sea. Ibrahim Wurie said they advised them to anchor anywhere …
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Breaking: Thousands of people have been displaced and dozens of houses submerged along the Freetown peninsula amid a heavy downpour, according to the District Council Chairman, Kasho Holland-Cole. Speaking to me a few moments ago from the fishing village of Tombo which has borne the brunt of the flooding after …
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