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By Bampia James Bundu

Executive Director of Centre for the Coordination of Youth Activities, CCYA has urged the Constitutional Review Committee to include vulnerable groups in the review process.

Ngolo Katta told a one day national consultative engagement on Sierra Leone’s 1991 constitutional review process in Freetown that committee members could not do it alone.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi.
A 17-month-long conflict which effectively divided Kpaka chiefdom in the southern Pujehun district that led to the suspension of the Paramount Chief has been resolved. It followed mediation efforts by a peace-building organisation, Pujehun Youth for Development (KNSL/PYD) who selected some stakeholders to resolve the impasse.

The conflict had led to an uprising by some residents of the chiefdom who were opposed to their Paramount Chief, Alhaji John Sallia Rogers on allegations he was disrespectful to them.

By Alimamy Kamara

Senegalese President, Macky Sall and his Malian counterpart Ibrahim Boubacar Keita are taking part in the 4th Pan-African youth leadership summit in Dakar, on the theme: Youth Unemployment in the Post- 2015 Development Agenda of the United Nations.

Yusuphu Crooks

Following the suspension by the Sierra Leone authorities of three of the country's Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the World Bank has threatened to suspend the country from further assistance in this area.

A Commissioner of the Independent Media Commission (IMC) says he is “badly shaken and humiliated” after being attacked by a senior military officer close to the military training centre at Benguema, just outside Freetown.

Bishop Samuel Borbor

By Bampia James Bundu

The bishop of the Freedom in Christ Ministry on Fergusson Street in Freetown has confirmed as true allegations that he threw his 14-year-old twins on suspicion that they are demon-possessed.

By Steven Bockarie Mansaray in Kabala

A young woman in her 20s should, ideally, be in college to unshackle herself and her community from poverty. But not so in the case of Fatmata Tarawallie who was allegedly attacked by her husband, Mohamed Mansaray in  Gbendi Dembelia Sinkunia chiefdom, in the last week of December who poured raw caustic soda on her face leaving her blind.