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By Joseph Sevalie in Mattru

There were clashes yesterday in the disputed village of Nyangai in the Sogbene chiefdom in the southern Bonthe District leaving two people with serious machete wounds. Clashes were also reported in Balie and Kpetema in the same chiefdom.

It followed a long drawn out dispute between Sogbene and Bum chiefdoms with each laying claim to Nyangai. The matter was looked into by the Provincial Security Committee (PROSEC) which sent surveyors to the place and ascertained that Nyangai belonged to Sogbene.

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

With funds from UNICEF, the Rural Agency for Community Action Programme Sierra Leone (RACAP/SL) has donated 40 bicycles to their Natural Leaders, as their community workers are called, in Kpaka chiefdom, Pujehun district.

Handing over the bicycles, the program director of RACAP/SL, Emmanuel Fawundu, told the beneficiaries that their project was geared towards improving on the level of hygiene and sanitation through massive sensitization in the chiefdom.

By Bampia James Bundu

Chairperson of the Political Parties’ Registration Commission (PPRC), Justice Tolla Thompson has cautioned political parties to “put Sierra Leone first” as they review the country’s constitution.

He told a one-day interparty dialogue forum of representatives of ten registered political parties in Sierra Leone at the British Council in Freetown that they must extensively discuss the process.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

General overseer of the Lord’s Mission Church, and president of His Helping Hand International Ministry, aka 4HIM Sierra Leone, has been sentenced to a fine of Le 250 million or he goes to jail for six years.

Pastor Hassan Mansaray, with his accountant Abdul Aziz Bangura, was indicted in May 2013 for allegedly misappropriating donor funds and properties contrary to the ACC Act.

They were convicted by Justice John Bosco Katutsi of High Court No. 2 on 14 counts of corruption.

Unknown gunmen at around 2 o clock on Sunday morning attacked and opened fire at the home of a Somali journalist, Abdikhadar Iman dhaqane, correspondent for Horncable Television, at Farjano neighborhood in Kismayo.

In a press release issued in Sunday afternoon, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) condemned the attack “in the strongest terms possible”

The union’s sources say that gunmen opened fire at the house of the journalist, “which he narrowly escaped”.

By Septimus Senessie

A fatal road accident on Monday 29July at Faor village in the Nimikoro chiefdom, in Kono district left three killed on the spot including a 2-year-old child. One person was left critically injured.

The accident happened when an unregistered commercial motorbike carrying three passengers rammed into another unregistered tractor which was apparently stationary. All the victims were on the motorbike.

By Mohamed Vandi