By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya The Chief Nutritionist who is also Director of Food and Nutrition at the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Aminata Shamit Koroma says there’s been a 26% decrease in the number of children with stunted growth in the country since 2021. Koroma made the disclosure in an interview with Politico on the 23rd of August 2023. On the impaired growth and
By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya The Executive Director of the Sierra Leone Association of Persons with Albinism, Mohamed Osman Kamara, has expressed concern at what he said are the prejudices persons with albinism face in state -owned institutions in the country and want their protection under law. Speaking in an interview on Thursday 18th of August 2023, Kamara said that they are
By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya In reaction to growing mob justice particularly in the Western Area, the Sierra Leone Police have strongly condemned the practice in a public notice issued on the 16th of August, 2023. According to the notice, the violent acts ‘in the guise of exercising justice’ culminate in what the Police say are extra-judicial killings of suspected thieves or
By Abdulai Fasineh Dumbuya The Assistant Inspector-General of Police (AIG), Brima Jah has warned individuals that he claimed are behind plans to stage illegal demonstration in the country between the 7th and 14th August 2023 that they could face the law. He said this at the weekly Police press briefing at their Headquarters in Freetown on Thursday 10th August 2023. According