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Sierra Leone News

UNIDO makes an impact with training programme in Sierra Leone as benef...

May 17, 2013 no comments

“When you have a skill, even if something bad happens in a country, you won’t have a hand in it. You won’t steal or hurt people willfully, and you won’t take a gun for a companion,” explains 21-year-...

Charles Margai – The poker game is over!

May 10, 2013 no comments

Charles Margai was born into a noble family. A fact he has failed to measure up to. He is the son of a former Prime Minister of our country. What this trained and privileged lawyer may not have come ...

Sierra Leone is 52 years old today

April 27, 2013 no comments

On this day, April 27th, the West African country, Sierra Leone, became an independent state within the Commonwealth. According to world history and as history had it: The location of Freetown – the ...

Miss Sierra Leone USA Ruby B Johnson departs for Freetown to participa...

April 25, 2013 no comments

Reigning Miss Sierra Leone USA 2013, Ruby B. Johnson leaves the United States of America Thursday to take part in Saturday’s independence ceremony.  While in Sierra Leone she will visit school girls ...

Who is the Vice President of Sierra Leone?

April 16, 2013 3 comments

The Vice President of Sierra Leone is supposed to be Chief Samuel Sam-Sumana. He was President Ernest Bai Koroma’s running mate in 2007, and again during the past 2012 presidential elections. B...

Sierra Leone president Ernest Bai Koroma takes positive steps towards ...

April 13, 2013 no comments

There has been a substantial increase  in the people sentenced to death and subsequently executed in Africa last year, but Sierra Leone, has taken positive steps and making progress towards the aboli...

Sierra Leone Airport Authority in stimulating economic growth and fost...

April 9, 2013 no comments

I watched SLBC TV on Tuesday, 9th April and heard the Lands Minister, Hon. Musa Tarawallie talk about plans by government to transform Lungi into Sierra Leone’s commercial city. This is encouraging n...

AMISOM welcomes deployment of Sierra Leone troops in Somalia

April 7, 2013 1 comment

MOGADISHU, Somalia, – African Press Organization (APO) – The African Union Mission in Somalia has welcomed members of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) who have joined AMISOM. A...

President Ernest Bai Koroma calls for the reform of the Security Counc...

March 23, 2013 no comments

The Sierra Leone President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, has expressed the African common position on the reform of the Security Council while addressing  the Committee of Ten Foreign Ministers and Permane...

Introducing Peter West – Britain’s new High Commissioner t...

March 21, 2013 no comments

Britain takes its relationship with Sierra Leone very seriously and continues to provide budgetary and other extensive support to the government and people of Sierra Leone. Former British Prime Minis...

Sierra Leone join 53 others at Commonwealth Day

March 13, 2013 no comments

Sierra Leone was among 54 member states represented at the Westminster Abbey, where the Commonwealth Observance Day was observed. It was a high profiled ceremony that attracted all member states of t...

7 medical practitioners and 22 others have been indicted by the ACC in...

March 7, 2013 1 comment

The Anti-Corruption Commission has today 7th March 2013 filed in the High Court of Sierra Leone, holden at Freetown, 29 indictments on various corruption offences against officials of the National He...

As President Koroma prepares for his second-term innauguration there i...

February 21, 2013 no comments

As President Koroma is inaugurated for a second term in office after freely and fairly winning the last Presidential elections in Sierra Leone, I reminisce a particular encounter with ordinary Sierra...

African Minerals engage government and higher learning institutions in...

February 20, 2013 1 comment

Leading iron ore miner, African Minerals has moved to engage government and higher learning institutions in Sierra Leone to boast capacity in the mining sector in anticipation of the sector’s potenti...

Sierra Leone’s Agenda for Prosperity must be comprehensive, logical, a...

February 11, 2013 no comments

The Agenda for Prosperity, introduced in the wake of President Ernest Koroma’s second term, should advance an economic programme that is comprehensive, logical, and feasible for it to succeed. For th...

“What’s happening in Sierra Leone is breathtaking” President Ern...

February 7, 2013 no comments

We haven't realised the full importance of what they have done. The planning was more thorough than any I have seen. Other governments can learn from Sierra Leone.”