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		<title>APC party launches Asia branch in China as Secretary General predicts not Less than 75 Parliamentary seats will be won in Sierra Leone</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/23608</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/23608#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[All People's Congress]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[APC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balogun 'Logus' Koroma]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hamza Bangura]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Ernest Bai Koroma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Victor Foh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Secretary -General for the ruling All Peoples’ Congress Party in Sierra Leone, Victor Bockarie Foe has told members of the APC Asia Branch, that even though the party is presently having a majority in Parliament with 59 seats, the target of the party for the 2012 Presidential and Parliamentary elections is to win not less [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone Committed to Reducing Dependency on Foreign Aid</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2634</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bumbuna hydro electric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dependency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president koroma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma Friday October 9th disclosed that his government is committed to reducing our dependence on foreign aid by increasing internally generated revenue. He made this disclosure during the occasion of the State Opening of the Third Session of the Third Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zimbabwe: Nothing Has Changed</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2613</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2613#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Southern Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zimbabwe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bob Marley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mdc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mugabe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tsvangirai]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zanu-PF]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have been observing the political development in Zimbabwe for the last couple of weeks. I am compelled to say, President Robert Mugabe is almost at the verge of swallowing the pride he once had; refusing to accept that no man is an island and that Zimbabwe cannot stand along and be able to meet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems Over Rights to Drilling Base as Oil is Discovered in Sierra Leone</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2609</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2609#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alhaji Alpha Kanu]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[discovered]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drilling base]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ministry of Mines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oil]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Political Affairs, Alhaji Alpha Kanu has disclosed that there is plenty of oil in Sierra Leone that would serve the needs of the people of Sierra Leone. Hon Kanu spoke on Thursday October 8th at a regular news briefing held by the Ministry of Information and Communication. Sierra Leone is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post Elections Perpetrators in Kenya May Face ICC Trial</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2605</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2605#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Criminal Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ICC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kofi Annan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mwai Kibaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post elections violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raila Odinga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reforms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Former United Nations Chief, Kofi Annan believes there is every need for the perpetrators of the 2007 post election violence in Kenya to face justice at the International Criminal Court. The former UN Chief is in Kenya to assess progress made so far in the country’s call for democratic reforms. His visit to the country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will Kenyans live up to Expectations?</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2591</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2591#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[East Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kenya]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mwai Kibaki]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raila Odinga]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What happened in Kenya a few years back could best be described as a demonstration of the selfishness of some African politicians who are always bent on exploiting a given situation in an effort to satisfy their political aims. As was in Zimbabwe where an opposition Movement For Democratic Change party won an election but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone’s President Koroma Express his Concern over Political Developments in Guinea</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2486</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2486#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guinea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political developments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president koroma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma has expressed concern over the latest political developments in Guinea. He spoke at a news conference at the country’s State House on Tuesday September 29th. Sierra Leone shares boundaries with Guinea. Guinea has been very instrumental in pre-conflict Sierra Leone, especially during Sierra Leone’s brutal civil war that lasted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone Makes Tremendous Strides in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2395</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2395#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Director for the National HIV/AIDS Secretariat in Sierra Leone has disclosed that the country has made tremendous progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS in recent years. Dr Brima Kargbo spoke to Newstime Africa on Thursday September 24th at his Kingharman Road office west of the country’s capital, Freetown. The fight against HIV/AIDS in Sierra [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Africans in the Diaspora Should Return Home</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2390</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2390#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[africans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diaspora]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[return home]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For sometime now we have as a continent kept clamoring for a socio-economic and political growth. This is even more so in Sierra Leone where the effects of a brutal civil war has had its toll on our domestic infrastructure. However we have  forgotten  to take into consideration one major factor that can ensure our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Welfare Minister Takes Measures to Protect Women and Children in Sierra Leone</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2375</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2375#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:11:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[protect women]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social welfare]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone’s Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Hon Soccoh Kabia has told Newstime Africa in his New England office that the country is making progress in terms of development. He said that the country has good plans to ensure that women and children are protected and provided for; with their need taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Years in Office: The Achievements of a President</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2350</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2350#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[achievements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bumbuna]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[electricity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hydro electric]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president koroma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Political analysts in Sierra Leone are still trying to evaluate the performance of the Ernest Koroma led APC government. The analysis are being made from the perspective of his promises upon which he was elected into office and the extent he has gone to meet some of these promises. President Koroma promised to make the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing the Pulse of African Democracies</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2285</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2285#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gambia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[african]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pulse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[testing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, African states have not been able to see the concept of democracy and good governance as issues which go beyond merely voting political leaders into positions of trust. They have forgotten the sad reality that democracy and good governance encapsulate the need for political accountability, press freedom, and the existence of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Billions Collected by Social Security Scheme in Sierra Leone</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2205</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2205#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[billions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nassit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social security]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone’s National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), a statutory Public Trust established by an Act of Parliament charged with the responsibility of administering Sierra Leone’s National Pension Scheme is reported to have collected a whopping sum of forty eight billion, nine hundred and forty-four million, five hundred and seventy-two thousand Leones (Le46, 944,572,000) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone&#8217;s President Ernest Koroma and the Concept of Governance</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2146</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2146#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 09:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concept]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Ernest Bai Koroma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma was elected into office almost  two years ago, following the decision by Sierra Leoneans to democratically ‘overthrow’ the now opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party from government. In the first place, the decision among the people to reject the Sierra Leone People’s Party which was in power must have sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Military Rule Must be Discouraged in African Politics</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2027</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/2027#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breaking News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discouraged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military rule]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The involvement of the military in African politics has most often been compelled by the lack of good governance, corruption, the suppression of opposition and to an extent the lack of a free and pluralistic press. When one takes a look at the involvement of the army in the political setup of Africa right from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone’s Information Minister says: ‘country is making progress’</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1954</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1954#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information minister]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[making progress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone’s Minister of Information and Communication, Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo has said that as a government they have been working hard to ensure that they continue to provide the enabling environment for the operation of political tolerance, pluralistic press and the observance of human rights issues. He is convinced also that the country has been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police Chief in Sierra Leone Calls for Collaborative Effort in Fighting Crime</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1922</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1922#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brima Acha Kamara]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[crime prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[effort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fighting crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone’s Inspector-General of Police, Brima Acha Kamara has stated that the issue of national security involves the collective responsibility every citizen of the state as. According to him, the force is trying to meet the challenges as far as the provision of state security is concerned but was quick to point that  it is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone: Ombudsman&#8217;s Office to Investigate Abuse in Government</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1883</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1883#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Office of the Ombudsman came into being in Sierra Leone by the Ombudsman Act, 1997, of the Parliament of Sierra Leone. It draws its powers from Section 146 of the Constitution, and it is empowered to do “investigation” of “any action taken or omitted to be taken by or on behalf of any department [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone Moves Towards an Access to Information Legislation</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1874</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1874#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[information]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone is a small country in the West African region that witnessed a brutal civil war which lasted for over a decade. The factors responsible for that civil war are, but not limited to corruption which almost became part of society, the lack of an independent justice system, the lack of a free press [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone Overcoming Devolution Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1848</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[devolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Chief Administrator  of the Freetown City Council (FCC),  the capital city of Sierra Leone which is about the oldest modern city in West Africa, Bowenson Phillips, on Monday, August 24, 2009, told NEWSTIME AFRICA  that Sierra Leone has made tremendous progress  in devolving power from the formerly over-centralized system in the country since Parliament [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone&#8217;s President Koroma Arrives in Brazil</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1775</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 09:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Ernest Bai Koroma]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone’s President, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has arrived in Brazil, the first visit by the President to that country since he was elected in 2007 and the first visited ever to be made to that country by a Sierra Leonean President.  The government is reported to be working on plans to open a foreign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Sierra Leone, Opposition Party Chairman attacks fight against corruption</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1766</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opposition Party]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Newly elected Chairman for the People’s Movement for Democratic Change party in Sierra Leone, Mohamed Bangura has lashed out at the country’s institution responsible for the fight against corruption saying, it still has ‘more to do to show that it can perform’. Bangura spoke to Newstime Africa at his office in central Freetown. The current [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Visit: Any Hope for Africans?</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1745</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[African Focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hillary clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hopes for Africa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One thing that could not be denied from around the world is the fact that the United States of America still remains the world leading country. Despite the ‘illegal’ invasion or, for most time, what I would refer to as the ‘diplomatic overthrow’ of a serving Head of State in Iraq, the US still dominates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Accountability in Sierra Leone: A Component of Good Governance</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1679</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 11:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good governance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The promotion of democratic governance especially in Third World countries like those in the West African sub-region goes beyond merely electing leaders to positions of trust. It encompasses the need for a robust and effective system of ensuring that those entrusted with the national duty to govern meet the expectations of the electorate. Politicians look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone&#8217;s President opens Africa Caucus in Freetown</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1660</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[African Caucus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freetown]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma, today opened the African Caucus meeting, which comprised of over 300 delegates of African Finance Ministers and Bank Governors at the Miatta Conference Hall, West of Freetown the capital city of Sierra Leone .The meeting is expected to end on the 13th of August 2009. The meeting is discussing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Alliance in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1633</link>
		<comments>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1633#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ernest koroma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Politics from the view point of the traditional African politician , is a game meant to promote the self, especially when it comes to the issue of ‘the winner takes all’, a clear case in point being the problem that erupted after the elections in Kenya where Kibaki was literally defeated but refused to accept [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sierra Leone Hosts African Bank Governors Conference</title>
		<link>http://www.newstimeafrica.com/archives/1592</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Baimba Sesay</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sierra Leone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[500 cabinet ministers, finance experts, international partners  (World Bank, IMF, etc.) from nearly all the sub-Saharan countries in Africa, and the Breton Woods institutions are to meet in Freetown between August 12 and August 13, 2009 as the Africa Caucus Group A Press Release issued by the Ministry of Information and Communication in Freetown states [...]]]></description>
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