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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  ​ The Kambia District Students Association-(KaDSA) is mourning the death of one of their members named Mahmoud Osman Kamara, a final year student that was studying Accounting and Finance at the Ernest Bai Koroma University of Science and Technology, Makeni Campus who lost his life during the Wednesday Citizens Protest in Makeni in the Northern part of Sierra Leone. He’s alleged to have been hit by a stray bullet along Rogbaneh Road in the metropolitan city's central business area on his way from the campus. He was rushed to the Makeni Regional Hospital where he was eventually confirmed dead, one of his friends Fenti Conteh told AWE-Media.SL. Since his death was confirmed on Wednesday evening, his college mates and close friends have been pouring tributes for him on social media “calling for his death to be thoroughly investigated by state actors and perpetrators be brought to book. In a presser, Mohamed Lamin Kamara, the KaDSA National Secretary notified f...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  One of the two North East Region representatives for the proposed first-ever Sierra Leone Premier League Mena Queens Football Club has announced the suspension of their 15-year-old inform winger and the club’s reigning leading goal scorer Fanta Kanneh. She’s suspended from all club activities effectively indefinitely for alleged breach of contract, the Makeni based club further said in their Monday, August 15 afternoon announcement. The teenager who finished as the highest goal scorer in the East Region Football Association and Sierra Leone Football Association sanctioned regional qualifiers for the proposed maiden edition of National Women’s Premier League is alleged to have journeyed from Makeni after seeking excuse from the club to see her mother in the village but instead headed to the eastern regional city of Kenema to sign for Kawula Rangers when her bid to sing as a free player backed fired. She is famous for her agility, dribbling skills, self comp...