Kemo Cham News Today

By Kemo Cham and Kadijatu K. Hayles A green scenery across part of Masoila, a community in the Kaffubollom chiefdom of Port Loko, makes a remarkable geographical beauty. Underlying this beauty are plush gardens across the settlement, the lifelines of many families in this part of the northern Sierra Leonean district, who grow vegetables like tomatoes and pepper. But this

By Kemo Cham Sierra Leone has indefinitely banned the export of fish to forestall imminent shortage of supply to the local markets. The Ministry of Fisheries says the move has become necessary to protect vulnerable and poor Sierra Leoneans who depend on fish for their primary source of protein. Charles Rogers, Deputy Minister of Fisheries, told journalists that the rainy

Civilians in Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso have joined junta leaders to celebrate withdrawal of French troops, seeing it as a victory against neo-colonialism.

Poor emergency warning systems and slow response affected disaster management.

By Kemo Cham & Mabinty M. Kamara The competence of the administration of the Sierra Leone Law School has come under scrutiny after it registered arguably the worst ever results in the Bar examination since the School was established in nearly 30 years. Of 179 students who sat to the 2019 exams, only 29 passed. 91 failed, some 54 had references in various modules, while results

Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal have always bickered in public on who is the true originator of jollof.

Many were surprised at the attempted coup in Sierra Leone, buthe signs had been on the wall for many weeks, if not months or years.

By Kemo Cham in Cape Town Even though there has been progress in reducing the number of maternal deaths worldwide in recent years, the gains are not enough to meet the global United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) targets, Koki Agarwal, an expert in reproductive health policy, has warned. Ms Agarwal, who is a Director in the USAID Momentum Country and Global

N 2011, Politico Newspaper hit the newsstands for the first time. That day marked the partial fulfilment of a decade-long dream and actual efforts by a group of concerned Sierra Leonean media practitioners who were concerned about the general quality of journalism and the socioeconomic situation of ordinary Sierra Leoneans and wanted to use the media to try to turn things

Verdict was delivered after a two-day hearing, and before the January 1 Ecowas deadline to release the soldiers.