The News Review:
- Community-based schools provide hope to the children of Sierra Leone
- Will a Sierra Leone-type tribunal work in Kenya?
- Chief Justice Exits Law Court Office in Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone To Get Nationwide Television Soon
- Expulsion Order For Ogboni Leader From Sierra Leone….Police Boss …
Community-based schools provide hope to the children of Sierra Leone
ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland
" She smiles as she talks about her dreams and describes her favourite subjects: English and Science. Isatu lives with her father and three siblings in Robonko village about ten miles outside of, Makeni, the headquarter town in northern Sierra Leone. Isatu is twelve years old and is just about to commence her third year at Rogbonko Community Primary School (usually at 12 years children are preparing for either their final year in primary or first year in secondary). Until 2005 there was no school within Isatu’s community and parents were worried about sending their children, especially girls, to walk long distances to the nearest school (approximately 12 miles away).
Will a Sierra Leone-type tribunal work in Kenya?
Daily Nation, Kenya
tag –> By PETER MWAURAPosted Friday, October 31 2008 at 15:48
Situated on Jomo Kenyatta Avenue in the middle of Freetown is a lavish and sprawling purpose-built courthouse surrounded by a 12-foot-high concrete wall with razor wire. Patrolled by UN troops, it is the Special Court for Sierra Leone, set up to end impunity, promote reconciliation and bring to public account perpetrators of the brutality and serious crimes committed during the devastating 1991-2002 civil war in the West African country. The court is a judicial experiment. It uses local and international judges as well as the local and international law to try ?persons who bear the greatest responsibility? for the violence. It is this judicial model that the Waki commission borrows from for its No. 1 recommendation ? setting up a special tribunal to ?seek accountability against persons bearing the greatest responsibility for crimes, particularly crimes against humanity, relating to the 2007 General Elections in Kenya.
Chief Justice Exits Law Court Office in Sierra Leone
Standard Times Press, Sierra Leone
Ade Renner Thomas to bid farewell to one of the most prestigious offices in Sierra Leone, and that is the office of the Chief Justice; which is located at the Law Court Building. Having served the country, roughly for about four years, Dr. Ade Renner Thomas will return to his private legal practice again as a retired Chief Justice of the Republic of Sierra Leone. The circumstance under which Dr. Ade Renner Thomas has tendered his letter of resignation to the APC government of President Ernest Bai Koroma is left to history.
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Sierra Leone To Get Nationwide Television Soon
Standard Times Press, Sierra Leone
Speaking recently at the Open Government Initiative (OGI) forum, which took place at Bo. City Hall, Alhaji Kargbo told the huge crowd that he is determined to improve the information and communication sectors of the country. He said that seven engineers and the equipment for setting up the National Television, which is expected to be operational by next June, arrived in the country last week
Unlike the past government that had vainly focused on establishing regional televisions, the Information and Communication minister revealed that on assuming office, he embarked on an ambitious nation-wide TV plan that will soon be realized.
Expulsion Order For Ogboni Leader From Sierra Leone….Police Boss …
Standard Times Press, Sierra Leone
Acha Kamara said that when once the order has been prepared, it is the responsibility and constitutional obligation of the police to execute it. “We are ready” The police boss emphasized”
Police findings about the Ogboni cult society has clearly buttressed the opinions of members of the Nigerian Union, who until Wednesday this week has been agitating for the expulsion and deportation of the cult leader in Sierra Leone. A press release issued out by the Union this week categorically states the position of the Union, which in the opinion of many people the Ernest Koroma government must comply, by adopting a radical approach with the issue.