By Mohamed Habib Conteh Various human rights activists in the country have raised serious concerns over the rampant unlawful and wrongful arrests of youths, especially those in the Tombo Park community in Waterloo. According to a source from the Sierra Leone Police in Waterloo, it is alleged that some young men are now being chased across the country on allegations …

The Sierra Leone Police has mounted a man-hunt for an active youth activist Alimamy Kanu and some members of the main opposition party who they believed to be behind the riot that took place in the Western Rural fishing village of Tombo, a known stronghold of the opposition party, on Wednesday 6th May 2020, in which some 6 people were …

Reports reaching this medium reveal that one Mohamed I. Sesay, a youth leader of the main opposition party APC in the fishing village of Tombo, Western Rural District, narrowly escaped being eliminated by security forces, who were being led by ruling party youths, identifying homes of known opposition party members, accused of inciting youths in the locality to go on …

On Wednesday 6th May 2020, hundreds of angry fishermen and youths from the fishing town of Tombo went on the rampage setting the Family Support Unit (FSU) of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) and community hospital on fire. The main police station was vandalized. Sporadic and sustained gunfire erupted after a gang of youths attacked security personnel and government property. …

“I don’t know whether he is dead or alive,” Hawa Conteh, mother of a suspect declared wanted by the Sierra Leone Police sadly expressed. Her son, Abu-Bakarr Kamara is one of the suspects police declared wanted in April 2020, following a violent riot staged by a number of youths in Lunsar, one of the largest towns in Port Loko, Northern …

A Sierra Leonean, Ibrahim Khalil Sesay, a well-known youth leader and vocal mouthpiece of the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) Youth Wing is currently on the run after being declared wanted by the Sierra Leone Police following a destructive riot which occurred on Sunday 26th January, 2020. Initial reports indicated that the commotion, which began as a youth-led protest, quickly …

Osman Bernard Kabia, who was residing at Fourah Bay Road in the eastern part of Freetown, Sierra Leone, has gone missing. Family sources have confirmed that Osman’s elder sister, Madam Adama Nadia Kabia, was murdered by their step-mother and her brothers, who have been making persistent threats of lynching Osman and his late elder sister before her untimely death at …

By James Batilo Songa.                                                                                 Reports reaching this newspaper state that Mr. Augustine Santigie Kamara formerly of Kandema village and later of …

By Hassan Kamara The parents of 22-year-old Tounkara Conteh have told Global Times Newspaper that they are living in fear and uncertainty following the alleged abduction of their son by a dangerous group widely referred to as the “Soja Team”—a faction of youths and political operatives linked in some quarters to supporters of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). …

By Samuel Kargbo A secret society group from the Northern part of Sierra Leone Kabala has declared Abdul Sillah death, reports reaching this newspaper have revealed that Abdul Sillah, a youth, formerly residing at Kabala in the northern part of Sierra Leone is now on the run fearing for his life after being declared wanted by the head of the …