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By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy) Yes, we look back and look forward to the great day. The world sometimes, if not most times, portrays men as the monsters in the corridors of women's "enmancipation" and "gender equality". As a man I have worked for women all my life. Yet, the global space entertains that women are marginalized by men. No man is responsible for the current gender configuration in our society. It is the way it is as a cultural conditioning. Simply put, gender is societal ascription of roles between men and women. So let us all work to do cultural reconfiguration on gender. Year in year out, celebration of the international women's day is a stalk reality, confined in the urban corridors of our society with elite women making the loudest uncoordinated noise but extremely not countenancing the majority of women in the farms, the quarries and water sides struggling to give a little meaning and hope to their aptly described horrible lives. I think th...

STATEMENT BY PRESIDENT OF SWASAL, SAHR MORRIS JR. ON INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY ON THE THEME: "GENDER EQUALITY TODAY FOR A SUSTAINABLE TOMORROW" The international theme set out by the United Nations is "Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow". However, this theme is being popularized with a hashtag theme: "Breaking The Bias"(#BreakTheBias). In all these considerations, SWASAL joins women of the World to celebrate their political, social, cultural and economic contributions in making the world a better place for us all. Every year on March 8, the whole world gives itself time to reflect on gender equality; celebrate women's contributions and achievements in their various spheres of endeavours and safeguard their fundamental rights. Rightly so, therefore, today's reflection is popularized by the hashtag "BreakTheBias as a way of ensuring the sustainability of gender equality in all spheres of interest of women around the world. The...

By Abdulai Fornah  The Director General of the National Aids Secretariat (NAS) of Sierra Leone  Abdul Rahman Sesay has in an exclusive with AWE-Media.SL earlier today disclosed that persons that have been enrolled for Prep drug are 99% safe interms of contracting the HIV and AIDS. He made the disclosure while speaking to AWE-Media.SL about the Prep Drug at the National Aids Secretariat premises in Dwarzack Farm in Freetown. "Prep is a new intervention that have been introduced into the national response of HIV and AIDS, adding that it is a prevention intervention or prevention strategy for the vulnerable population of persons at high risk zones where the HIV and AIDS can be easily contacted, especially for persons involved in commercial sex. "But once you are on prep, your chances of getting the virus reduces by almost 99%," he assured.  And further disclosed that "Sierra Leone has a lot of commercial sex workers, but the consistent and correct use of condom still r...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Morlai Kargbo, the court clerk attached at local court No. 1 located at Turntable area in Makeni Northern Sierra Leone said Challenge cases tops the total number of cases they deliver judgments on since 2021. He further revealed that such cases limit the court to levying fines because most of the cases that are sermons at our court range from depts. cases, alleged use of abusive languages, married palavers amongst others and both plaintiffs and defendants normally agree to striking compromises for out of courts settlements. “Since 2021, we’ve received over 100 summonses and dealt with the majority of such summons but to be frank, the majority of such cases are challenge contests between plaintiffs and defendants with a bulk of these cases being redrawn for home settlements. “We’ve stated provisions to act on, that will help to see persons being tried and if found guilty of the alleged crimes be fined according to law and such monies be paid to boost the treasur...

By: Alusine Rehme. Wilson During Monday's court hearing at the Local Court Number-1 located at turntable, in Makeni City, Northern Region, two petty trader namely Sama Sesay of Number-2 Timbo drive, Mabanta in Makeni and Isata Kamara of Number-87 old Mabanta Road in Makeni for their failure to pay the plaintiff’s long standing dept of One Million, One Hundred Thousand Leones which saw them being summoned to the court on 10h February, 2022. According to the particular of offences of the said matter, both petty traders who admitted to owing the plaintiff that stipulated amounts as stated above but refused to show signs of remorse and willingness to pay the money which they respectively owed the plaintiff. The particular of offences states that the two petty traders, Sama Sesay and Isata Kamara had collected vegetables from the plaintiff since November last year amounting to the sum of Two Hundred and Seventy Thousand Leones-(Le 270,000) and Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand Leones-(L...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Few days after the Wusum Stars Football Club Management announced the suspension of their team captain Abass Push Kanu for allegedly inciting players and production of team jerseys, I  interviewed the skipper to react to the club’s decision against him. According to the Secretary General of Wusum Stars Football Club, Mohamed Papa Bangura, who told Journalists that the club resolved to suspend Abass Push Kanu for three League matches and has also been banned from training with the club until his suspension elapsed in March incitements on the players as well as the production of jersey. Kanu says he’s surprised to hear about his suspension being announced on the radio by the club Secretary before receiving the official correspondence from the club. “I’m not really happy to be suspended from the club at a time when the team is struggling to move top of the league table. “What’s paints me most are the false acquisitions the club has leveled on me while I was only t...

By: Amadu Wurie Timbo Popular heavy machinery operator working with the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) Madam Hawa Foday has bitterly expressed dismay on the Government of Sierra Leone following her eight years tireless-working period that reflects no salary. The highly focused woman started her working exercise as Machinery operator in 2014 with the ambition to actualize adequate food for the citizenry of Sierra Leone through her selfless efforts in operating heavy-duty machines for large scale farmers, farming in the northern part of Sierra Leone. In an exclusive interview with this medium, Madam Foday revealed that, her decision to join the trade is considered as a better way to complement government effort in achieving the Sustainable Development Goal two (SDG2), which is ‘Zero Hunger’ and either perceived as a better way to realize livelihood for herself and her dependent family. According to her, female gender must not be considered as disability in nation building in...