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The Open Society Initiative for West Africa has met with 17 of its 21 partner organisations in Sierra Leone, assuring them of the work of the organization in the country. They also got representatives from the OSIWA Guinea office.

The day-long meeting discussed procedures for applying for grant and receiving funding from OSIWA, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability. There were also senior officials from the OSIWA headquarters in Dakar.

The partners include civil society and media organizations as well as Government institutions,

By Bampia James Bundu

By Septimus Senessie in Kono.

The Monitoring and Compliance Unit of the Anti Corruption Commission has presented monitoring reports to stakeholders at the SLTU Hall in Makeni. The reports were on the Ministries of Local Government, Health and Sanitation, Education and Agriculture.

Welcoming participants, the ACC Regional Manager, Patrick Sandi, who chaired the occasion observed that the occasion was significant because the Commission was “making another giant stride in combating graft in the country”.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono

OCTEA mining group in the diamond fields of Kono, eastern Sierra Leone, has laid off some 300 out of the 426 miners they had earlier sent on leave.

The company’s administrative officer, Julius Aruna, said they had to embark on redundancy after they realised that production had drastically reduced in the last three months.

An independent public survey on the living conditions of Sierra Leoneans and the performance of government was released on Tuesday in Freetown. Carried out by Afrobarometer in mid last year, the perception survey shows fundamental problems with the country’s public service delivery even if it shows that the majority of Sierra Leoneans are optimistic about the way the country is headed.