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However, eight years after the end of the war, the country is hoping that tourism will be the key to its future prosperity.

One organization with an innovative plan to attract the visitors back is Tribewanted, a project to build an eco-tourism community on John Obey beach, 20 miles from the capital Freetown.

A club versus country row has broken out as Egypt begin the defence of their Africa Nations Cup crown against the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone in Cairo at the weekend.

The Pharaohs won an unprecedented seventh Nations Cup triumph in February when they pipped a youthful Ghanaian team 1-0 in the final in Luanda.

They are now drawn in a qualifying group that also includes South Africa and Niger.

Last month, they defeated DR Congo 6-3 in a friendly preparatory to their match against Sierra Leone.

After years of civil war, Sierra Leone re-enters world cocoa trade.

No one in this village wanted to be a cocoa farmer 15 years ago. The labor was hard, the crop was often plagued by disease and sold for lower than market prices. And most farmers ended up in debt because of loans taken out to pay seasonal workers.

“We didn’t go near the plantation,” said Sallieu Mondeh, a cocoa farmer in the village. “We didn’t even want our children to be called farmers.”

A total of 19 Paramount Chiefs in the Bo and Pujehun districts were in jubilant mood over the weekend as they received a cheque of seven hundred and twenty-four million, three hundred and fifty thousand, five hundred and twenty five Leones (Le724, 350, 525.00) under the Diamond Area Community Development fund, DACDF.

SLPP leader John Benjamin said it was possible another two people would add their names to the list before the deadline for the declaration of intent runs out by close of day Tuesday.

World Hope was officially commissioned to implement "Nutrition Activities for Promotions of Community-based Management of Acute Malnutrition and Infant and Young Child Feeding." In other words, they have been asked to help implement a program designed to improve health and nutrition for children under the age of five in Sierra Leone.

The Vice President of Shandong Iron and Steel company Jurong Cui has said that his company is the fifth largest in China and the ninth in the world and they have the money to work with African Minerals in mining the iron ore for as long as possible.
He made this disclosure last Friday at the Ministry of Mineral Resources conference room when they paid a courtesy call on the Minister Alhaji Alpha Kanu and other ministers who were present.

The Free Health Care initiative launched by President Koroma on Independence day 2010 is about to receive its biggest shock as the National Revenue Authority (NRA) prepares to exercise its mandate and auction much needed medical equipment brought in for the Ministry of Health but which has since not been cleared from the customs and excise department.
According to gazette no 55 Vol. CXLI published on Thursday 5th August 2010 as public notice no. 254 by the Commissioner of the Customs and Excise Department of the National Revenue Authority J.B Davies under the title ‘lists of outstanding cargoes at baggage hall’ items 28, 65 and 66 were listed under the consignee the Ministry of Health.

Charles Taylor's former Vice President Moses Blah ordered the execution of a Sierra Leonean rebel commander in Liberia who was already a subject of an indictment issued by the Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2003, a former radio operator in Charles Taylor's Special Security Services (SSS) unit today told the Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague.

In concluding his evidence today as the 19th defense witness for Charles Taylor, Issa Hassan Sesay, the convicted former interim leader of the Sierra Leonean rebel group which Mr. Taylor is accused of supporting, used the opportunity to apologise to the people of Sierra Leone for his role in the conflict and the actions of his Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebel group.