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The Calabash Newspaper✍️ The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), in a release it issued out on the 29th April 2020 and signed by the Association’s National Secretary General, Mohamed Asmieu Bah, has intimated its launching of a Disciplinary Committee Pursuant to Article 14 (3) of the SLAJ constitution which states:  “There shall also be a Disciplinary Committee of SLAJ whose function shall be to adjudicate upon matters of indiscipline and professional misconduct of individual members of SLAJ.”  The Disciplinary Committee of SLAJ comprises three members. Two of such members were drawn from within or without SLAJ.” “The SLAJ Disciplinary Committee should co-opt two additional members, comprising one from civil society and another from the floor to enhance its operations.”  The newly constituted Disciplinary Committee (SLAJ-DC) is as follows:  SLAJ:  1. Mrs. Bernadette Cole- (Chairperson)  2. Abu-Bakarr Sheriff Esq- (Secretary)  3. Lucy Ann Ganda  PUBLIC:  4. Marcella Samba Se...

By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy)✍️ The photos above depict the desperate and callous attitude of Sierra Leoneans on the permanent ruin of the environment. I was shocked and shattered to see the above grotesque scenery: a typical agrarian village in rural Sierra Leone where the desperation to burn charcoal cannot restrain the locals from chopping permanent tree crops to burn charcoal. the fallen tree is a mango tree that suffered brutal human rape for a precarious and unsustainable livelihood. What can anyone do to protect and preserve the wailing forests of Sierra Leone? Government has established institutions to do just that but such institutions, like the Environment Protection Agency, have relapsed to decorative status: a permanent feature of state decoration. Logging and chaircoal burning are massive and done in the most savage of fashions. Rural Sierra Leoneans are chronically and desperately poor. Beyond physical poverty, they are also mentally and visionarily poor! Sadly, mental ...

By: Foday Sulaiman Dumbuya -Kambia District Son of the Soil✍️ MY TAKE ON THE FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19 IN KAMBIA DISTRICT Kambia district is strategically located and shares over 163 crossing points-both official and unofficial ones with the Republic of Guinea. Since the outbreak of Coronavirus in China and it rapid spread to big economies across the globe, the Sierra Leone government wasted no time but engaged all relevant authorities to prevent COVID-19 entering the country with special attention given to  border districts with Kambia as main district of concentration. This was due mainly to the flow of positive coronavirus cases from Guinea at the time and the initial response to it.  Also, the manner with which  Ebola was handled in that country came to mind. It was not therefore surprising to see steady flow of visit to Kambia by key government officias with the motive to ginger stakeholders to put measures in place earlier than later for the battle ahead. It is against this back dro...

Freetown | 4th May | 2020   Greetings from the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ). Yesterday, 3rd May, 2020, SLAJ joined the rest of the world in observing World Press Freedom Day on the global theme of: ‘Journalism without fear or favour’. Because the day fell on Sunday, we decided to defer our programmes for today. Later in the day, SLAJ will hold a virtual seminar on the theme: “The Media and the COVID-19 Pandemic”. The next day, 5th May, SLAJ will also participate in a regional webinar discussion with counterparts in Liberia, Ghana and Nigeria organised by UNESCO on the global theme. Strangely, the world is observing this year’s World Press Freedom Day amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, and for us here we are doing so under the State of Emergency and a lockdown. Nevertheless, the media in Sierra Leone continues to play its crucial role in supporting the national fight against COVID-19 and re-positioning itself as a force to be reckoned with in our governance landscape. The m...