News

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The government of Sierra Leone, through the Mudslide Inter-Agencies Committee, has vowed to demolish a house being constructed in the Motormeh-Regent Yellow Zone.

After the 2017 mudslide, the Mortemeh-Regent area, where the incident occurred, was divided into two main zones: Red, which according to experts is an emergency area, and Yellow, which is considered a potential emergency area. All the houses within the Red Zone were demolished and the owners compensated.

By Hassan J. Koroma in Bo

The head of the National Authorising Office (NAO), Ambrose James, has said they were satisfied with progress in ongoing construction works involving two major roads in the country.

Mr James was speaking in Pujehun at the end of a two-day inspection tour of the sites of the European Union funded projects in Moyamba and Pujehun.

The projects entail 226 million euro for the Bandajuma – Liberia border road and 40.7 million euro for the Moyamba Junction - Moyamba Town road. In between these two major roads are bridges.

By Hajaratu Kalokoh

The telecommunications operator Africell has launched its much publicised coding bootcamp for pupils in primary, secondary and tertiary institutions.

The bootcamp was officially launched on Thursday, although the learning process had commenced earlier on Monday August 5^th.

By Kemo Cham

Registration of the dead is important for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Statistician General Prof. Osman Sankoh has said.

Prof. Sankoh told the just concluded conference on civil registration in Freetown that measuring progress towards the SDG targets has been difficult and that it will continue that way unless everyone makes greater efforts to collect information on the number of annual deaths that occur among the population and the causes of those deaths.

By Kemo Cham

Members of the Parliamentary Committee on Health and Sanitation last week had a firsthand experience of the look and operations of the Lakka Government Hospital.

The Lakka Hospital, located at Goderich in the west end of Freetown, is host to Sierra Leone’s main treatment center for Tuberculosis and Leprosy.

By Umaru Fofana

Flash floods continue to wreak havoc across Sierra Leone. The heavy downpour this week has left thousands displaced along the Freetown peninsula and hundreds more in Sulima in the southern Pujehun District.

This comes after more than 700 were displaced in Kailahun District. Seven deaths were confirmed in Freetown with hundreds more displaced after floods hit parts of the capital last week.

By Hajaratu Kalokoh

A research done by the Center for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) has discovered that survivors of rape and other Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGVB) victims are still paying for medical treatment and reports, against existing laws.

As part of the government’s fight against SGBV, payment for medical services were squashed by both the 2012 Sexual Offences Act and the Domestic Violence Act of 2007.