By Isaac Massaquoi The world woke up on Wednesday 7th January to news of an attack of grotesque proportions on the Paris offices of a satirical magazine called Charlie Hebdo. Two masked gunmen entered the office during a normal production meeting and wiped out the editorial staff in cold blood. On their way out they also murdered a police officer who was apparently responding
By Septimus Senessie in Kono The family of Adamu Eze, now in police custody for his alleged role in the 21 November Ebola riot that claimed two lives in Kono district, has been released after 21 days under quarantine. The twenty man family of number 28 Post Office Road in Koidu town was quarantined after medics at the government hospital said they had kept the 95-year old sick
By Septimus Senessie in Kono Chanting their slogan “power and wealth to the people”, the Revolutionary United Front Party (RUFP) on Saturday held a peaceful rally in Kono, arguably the district most ravaged by the civil war unleashed by the former rebel RUF. According to the RUFP leader, Eldred Collins his is the best and the most transparent party that will redeem Sierra
By Septimus Senessie in Kono. Minister of Education has officially handed over to contractors the construction of a technical and vocational institute in Kono District, eastern Sierra Leone. The institute will be located close to the Ninth Infantry Battalion at Simbakoro in Gbense Chiefdom. Dr.
By Septimus Senessie in Kono The landmark Congo Bridge in the eastern town of Koidu is at the centre of a dispute that has sharply divided the people of the diamond-rich Kono district. A section of the community, with the apparent backing of government, are defending mining operations under and around the bridge which is thought to be sitting on a huge reserve of diamond