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Press Release The West African journalists Association (WAJA) has welcomed as groundbreaking, the guilty verdict brought down by the ECOWAS Court against the Gambian Government in a case involving four journalists. The Court ruled on February 14, 2018 that the Government of President Yahya Jammeh violated the rights of the journalists to freedom of expression, liberty and movement. They had been arrested, detained and tortured in line with their work. The four journalists who were being held on criminal libel charges, subsequently fled into exile for fear of their lives. In its judgment, the sub-regional Court of Justice, declared that…

Press Release President George Manneh Weah has constituted a Nine-member Special Review Committee to evaluate all concessions/management and other Agreements including contracts entered into by and between the Government of Liberia and Concessionaires and/or Contractors. According to an Executive Mansion release, the President formed the committee on Wednesday, February 14, 2018 and mandated it to review and ensure that all contracts entered into by the Government of Liberia and Concessionaires are executed according to agreed principles in accordance with the Laws of Liberia. President Weah further mandated the committee to ascertain and ensure that all contracts meet the legal requirements…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone The Decentralization Secretariat or Dec. Sec. last Friday, February 9, 2018 launch a World Bank managed project titled, “Strengthening Community Mobilization and Local Council Service Delivery in the Post-Ebola Context”, for four Local Councils in Sierra Leone. The project is funded by the Japanese government and will fold-up in three years’ time. The project was launched in the Mayor’s Parlor at the Freetown City Council (FCC) on Wallace Johnson Street in Freetown. FCC’s Chief Administrator, Festus Kallay, who played host to the mini launching, said the project is timely especially at a…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone Some 468 ex-workers of Freetown Waste Management Company (FWMC) on Thursday, February 8, 2018, protested against the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development (MLGRD) for failing to pay them their redundancy package and ‘end of service benefi’t since they were redundant in 2013. The aggrieved workers were laid off when MASADA took over the cleaning of the city from the Freetown Waste Management Company, and have since not been given their November 2013 salaries and other fringe benefits. The 468 workers gathered at Youyi Building premises in Freetown where they demanded…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone Delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) led West African Power Pool (WAPP) are currently in Sierra Leone to supervise and get first-hand information about the US$21.8 million that was released by ECOWAS in 2013 for the improvement of the energy sector in the country. The delegation was led by the Commissioner of Energy and Mines, Dr. Morlaye Bangoura, and will visit the two power stations in Kington and Black Hall Road and other keys areas that the WAPP project is being implemented. Deputy Minister of Energy I, Alhaji…

Cllr. Charles Gibson’s Nomination Withdrawn  President George Manneh Weah has yielded to pressure mounted by the public urging him to replace his Justice Ministry nominee, Cllr. Charles Gibson, the man saddled with myriad allegations of wrongdoing and unethical and unprofessional conduct. READ MORE Weah has now replaced Gibson with Cllr. Musa Dean.  Dean served as lead lawyer for the National Elections Commission (NEC) during the October 2017 election case. He also served as lead lawyer in the murder case involving Hans Williams and Mardea Paykue. SEE APPOINTMENTS

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone Volunteers at the cemetery where victims of the deadly Ebola and the Mudslide in Freetown in Pa Loko village, outskirts of Waterloo, in the Western Area Rural District, have expressed fear that illegal sand mining very close to the cemetery land has serious effect on the sacred ground. The cemetery was used to bury deceased of the Ebola disease between 2014 and 2015 and those who died during the August 14, 2017, mudslide and flood incident in Freetown. At the moment, there is an explosion of sand mining on the sea bed…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone Executive members and supporters of the Citizens Democratic Party (CDP) have called on the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) and the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to disregard Musa Tarawally, whom they claimed had hijacked the party from them. But the Chairman of Party says Mr. Tarawally is the standard-bearer s registered and member of the party. The executive members and supporters of CDP called a press conference organized at Zion Entertainment Complex, east of Freetown, where they claimed that Alhaji Musa Tarawally is not registered with the party. Mr. Tarawally claims he…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone The Ministry of Energy (MOE) has recently launched both the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Policies at the British Council Auditorium on Tower Hill in Freetown. The project is being supported by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and is expected to provide the space to avoid uninterrupted power supply mainly with the integration of both off grid and on grid facilities. Minister of Energy, Ambassador Engineer Henry Macauley, speaking last Friday, January 19th , said the ability of the renewable energy in terms of having less cost effect and at the…

By Joseph S. Margai in Freetown, Sierra Leone Susan’s Bay near Freetown is now threatened with an imminent danger of flooding. The President of the Sierra Leone United Boats Owners Association (SLUBOA), Paramount Chief (P.C) Bai Shebora Lion II, has warned people who are in the habiting of banking of sea bed to construct houses and other make-shift structures to desist, saying that it would cause flooding. P.C Bai Shebora Lion II, a paramount chief of Mambolo Chiefdom in Kambia District, was speaking to Groove 106FM last Thursday in Freetown, where he said the situation now at Susan’s Bay, which…