Visit Sierra Leone

Justice Julia Sebutinde 
She was the first Ugandan judge to be elected to the International Court of Justice. Justice Sebutinde has been a judge at the Hague-based UN Special Court for Sierra Leone, trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor. She beat off spirited competition from Sierra Leonean Judge Abdul Koroma to get the ICJ slot after obtaining 97 votes in the UN General Assembly compared to Koroma’s 83. The 15-member Security Council gave her nine votes and six to the Sierra Leonean, who already served at the World Court for 18 years.

Looking to enjoy an evening meal in Freetown this Christmas?  I have handpicked 5 restaurants that will cater to everyone’s taste.

    •    For the Family:
 Mamba point- A great night to enjoy a delicious pizza, the large ones are so huge they could be shared among a small family. Recently I had the colour salad (Avocado and Mozarella) it was delicious. If you’re looking for an evening to enjoy a good meal in a air conditioned  restaurant look no further.

DAKAR, 20 December 2011 (IRIN) - At the global aid effectiveness forum in Busan, South Korea, in November and December this year, the “G7+”, a group of nations which includes 19 fragile and conflict-affected states, agreed a New Deal on fragile states, which sets out concrete and, they hope, more relevant ways to improve peace- and state-building goals.

The New Deal will be piloted in Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, and Timor-Leste, with help from Australia, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA. 

It identifies five peace- and state-building goals as prerequisites for development without which “no MDG [Millenium Development Goals] will be met”, said Marcus Manuel, director of the Budget Strengthening Initiative at the UK’s Overseas Development Institute (ODI), one of the architects of the New Deal. 

A Sierra Leonean Mohamed Kamarainba and other Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora have started a new organisation ‘Patriotic Sierra Leonean’ with the motto ‘land that we Love our Sierra Leone’ as part of their assistance for the development of the country.
According to Mohamed Kamarainba President Patriotic Sierra Leonean the organization is non-political, non-partisan and it is geared towards bringing people all over the world to make the country a better place.
He said that the organzation will be formally launched on 5th January 2012 and that the theme is ‘what it takes to be a patriotic Sierra Leonean’.

AXMIN Inc. (AXM.V), a Canadian exploration and development company with a strong focus on central and West Africa, is unchanged at a year low 4 cents but is being heavily bid lower to 3.5 cents with nearly 6 million shares traded after announcing today that it has closed the sale of its remaining 49% interest in Nimini Holdings Limited to Polo Resources Limited for a cash consideration of US$9 million.

Welcome to our first National Child’s Day. A day given to us by His Excellency, the President of the United States, Barack Obama. A day to celebrate and recognize us for all our achievements and our contributions in our communities. To the kids, have fun and let us enjoy our day. Thank you,” said Janet Lagah-Bona, a twelve year old Sierra Leonean-American philanthropist and pageant royalty (Miss Virginia Pre-Teen Queen 2010, Miss Junior Sierra Leone USA 2008) at the first annual National Child’s Day held in Alexandria, Virginia.

Iron-ore miner London Mining continues to make significant progress at its Marampa mine, in Sierra Leone, with the ramp-up of the initial Phase 1a plant production.

Production will ramp up during the first half of 2012 to over 160 000 t/m, with 1.8-million tons of production still targeted for next year.

A prefeasibility study (PFS), which was completed earlier this year, indicated the viability of an expansion to 16-million tons a year during Phase 2.

Pick your way down a crowded street clogged with motorbike taxis and stray dogs. Walk past the women hawking flip-flops and little baggies of plantain chips. Step over an open gutter and through a low, unmarked doorway. Round a few unlit corners, then walk up a narrow set of stairs – and you’ve arrived.  

Welcome to Hollywood, Sierra Leone style.

They seem like an unlikely pair: a Costa Mesa police detective and a former professional soccer star from Sierra Leone.

But a common purpose of supplying children in need with soccer gear unites Dana Potts and former Los Angeles Galaxy player Abdul Sesay. They ship new and used soccer equipment to the coastal West African country.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - STAPLETON - A joyful celebration of the culture of Sierra Leone, a country on the coast of West Africa nestled between Liberia and Guinea, took place last Saturday afternoon at the Gerard Carter Community Center on Broad Street.