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By: Amadu Wurie Timbo A wild fire is reported to have left twenty six people homeless at Romaroh village in the Sanda Tendaren Chiefdom, Karene District in the Northern Province of Republic Sierra Leone. The sad event took place on Thursday 4th February 2021 at about 4:00pm when the community people were busy with their farming activities when the said wild fire makes it way through a nearby bush in to the village. The cause of the fire incident is not yet known but sources alleged that an unknown cattle-rearer’ is said to have set a fire in one of the nearby bush in order to have fresh grass for his cattle, which is part of their tradition during the dry season. Frantic efforts were made by community people in order to control the wild fire but to no avail and that all preventive measures were put but unfortunately the fire overcome. During the fire incident, properties worth million of Leones were destroyed leaving the entire community in a state of dilemma Pa. Brima Munu, eighty yea...

By: Sahr James Bangah As part of its mandates to empowered communities members to know about their role and responsibilities and how to hold their duty bearers accountable in a transparent and accountable manners, Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (CDHR) one of the leading Human Rights Organization in Sierra Leone with funds from European Union has embarked on formation of Community Monitoring groups across Bombali District. Explaining the background of the project, the Director for Centre for Democracy and Human Rights, Gabriel Massie Bah said that the Bombali District Council awarded a consultancy service to his organization to train community-monitoring groups across Bombali District for efficient monitoring of all developmental projects within their respective communities. He concluded that the community monitors are to play a sacrificial role because it is not a paid job and therefore warned that they should not compromised their integrity for the sake of money but to put thei...