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August 2015

Kids Advocacy Network (KAN), a leading child rights advocacy organization, on Tuesday 29 July 2015 launched an internship programme targeted at secondary school leavers. The scheme which is especially targeting girls is part of KAN`s

A lecturer of the Milton Margai College of Education and Technology, Gibrill Fofana, is being preliminarily tried in the Freetown Magistrate Court no.1 for one count charge of murder contrary to law. According to the particulars

Adama Sesay, Trader As law abiding citizens, we have cooperated with the   Public Health Emergency for more than a year now and that has negatively   affected our businesses to the extent that one could find it

Foundation for Democratic Initiatives and Development has engaged ten Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) in discussing the June 2014 report and recommendations of the West Africa Commission on Drugs (WACD). The discussion meeting was held on Friday,

In Sierra Leone, the following days will never arrive; if they do, then be rest assured that the country has turned upside down and they must be added to our numerous public holidays. The day SLPP

The Sierra Leone Teachers Union (SLTU) is one of the biggest and most powerful trade pressure groups in Serra Leone; the union has 100% literacy and operates on a very fat budget which has never

Our Judiciary is in dire need of more manpower to deal with the flood of cases some of which have spent years in our courts. The country is, obviously, suffering from a shortage of legally

The Speaker of the Sierra Leone House of Parliament, Hon. Sheku Dumbuya, is reported to have given a stern warning to Members of Parliament engaged in lawless parking of vehicles within the perimeter of Parliament. He