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By Nasratu Kargbo

Foundation for Rural and Urban Transformation (FoRUT) in tandem with Social Linkages for Youth Development and Child Link (SLYDCL) has formed a coalition with other Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) to fight drug abuse in the country.

In an interview with the Executive Director of FoRUT Sierra Leone Boi-Jenneh Jalloh after a meeting held by the coalition to brainstorm the way forward, she said they decided to put together different CSOs to provide a platform to learn and share ideas in tackling the menace.

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

A fire outbreak that swept through the female hostel at the University of Makeni(UniMak), Yoni campus on Monday 15^th April destroyed the twenty-one room building leaving the students displaced , according to the University’s Public Relations Directorate, Shebora Smaba Kamara.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The UNDP is set to support 200 women-owned or led very small enterprises and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) whose income has increased with a total budget of 2.7 million United States Dollars.

The fund will be disbursed through the Empowering West African Women Small and Medium Enterprises (EWASME) Project and is set to create 2,000 (two thousand) direct jobs and 10,000 (ten thousand) indirect jobs.

By Sorie Ibrahim Fofanah

The National Security Coordinator of the Office of National Security (ONS), Abdulai Caulker has disclosed that they have made several interventions against illicit cargoes at the Queen Elizabeth Quay, which he noted is due to them deploying their personnel at the quay and collaboration with their international partners.

Caulker made this disclosure at the government’s weekly press briefing on 9th April this year at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs conference room.  

By Politico Staff Writer

A World Bank report has indicated that Sub-Saharan Africa remains one of the highest in the world in inequality, second only to the Latin America and the Caribbean, as measured by the region’s average Gini coefficient.

The report issued via a press release last week pointed out that access to basic services, such as schooling or healthcare, remains highly unequal despite recent improvements. It stated that disparities also exist in access to markets and income-generating activities, irrespective of people’s skills.

By Saio Marrah

Footage from one of the Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras installed at the main entrance to the Pademba Road Correctional Centre tendered at the ongoing court martial on Friday 12^th April, 2024 captured the scene of a military vehicle being used to repeatedly crash into gate of the main prison with the intention to force it open between 08:.00 and 08:34 on 26^th November, 2023.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The First Lady of Sierra Leone, Fatima Bio has encouraged 40 former addicts of the drug Kush that have gone through rehabilitation, not to  go back to their old ways, and to instead serve  in the fight against the harmful substance.