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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Ten thousand pairs of crutches were distributed across Sierra Leone in a single day.

The country's landmine victims, amputees and polio sufferers all benefited from “Operation Rise,” run by an American organization called The Peace Project.

“I realized the incredible energetic shift and social and psychological impact of getting 10,000 people on their feet on one day would have on the morale of the country," said organizer Lisa Schultz. "And I knew that to engage people worldwide in caring about a problem caused by a war that ended 10 years ago, we had to do something big that would engage their imagination.”

A NURSE has been helping some of the poorest people in the world after a four-week stint in Sierra Leone.

Lesley Davey, from Cullompton, was onboard Africa Mercy - the largest charity hospital ship in the world – to help give free medical care and humanitarian aid to people in some of the most deserted parts of Sierra Leone.

Freetown — Thousands of children across the country both male and female are eagerly awaiting the kick-off of the third season of the Craig Bellamy Foundation (CBF) Youth Football League.

The tournament which has helped discovered several potential talents across the country is set to unearth other potentials for both the academy and the country.

Serbia champions, Partizan Belgrade has said that star midfielder, Mohamed Medo Kamara is worth four million euros for any potential suitor in the January transfer windows.

Though the Hum club has not yet decided to sell the Sierra Leonean midfielder, they have priced him ahead of the transfer in January to earn the goodwill of the player.

VIENNA, December 4, 2011: On the sidelines of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) 14^th General Conference, a high level meeting between UNIDO officials and Sierra Leone’s delegation was convened to discuss progress on UNIDO implemented projects inSierra Leone.  (Photo: Minister Richard Konteh & MD Dimitri Piskounov exchanging signed copies of agreement)

The meeting which served to discuss details of UNIDO projects, sought to identify specific actions needed either by UNIDO or the government of Sierra Leone to move the projects to the next level.

After attracting wide acclaim for their innovative approach to raising literacy rates in Sierra Leone, College seniors Fatmata and Mariama Kabia are ready to launch Memunatu Magazine to fulfill their mission of education and female empowerment.

Upon noticing the literacy discrepancy between young girls and boys in Sierra Leone, the twins decided to create a magazine to “introduce [girls] to subjects they might not initially gravitate toward,” Fatmata said, explaining that magazines “are creative, fun and educational, so the girls are interested.”

LONDON, Dec 05, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Joule Africa, the British-American alternative energy developer partnering with the Government of Sierra Leone to build the second phase of the Bumbuna Hydroelectric power station, announced today the appointment of three new members to its Advisory Board: Ken Costa, General Lord Richard Dannatt and Lord David Triesman. The development of Bumbuna Phase II by Joule Africa and the Government of Sierra Leone will more than quadruple the West African country's power generation capacity by 2017.

Ken Costa was most recently Chairman of Lazard International and previously Vice-Chairman of UBS Investment Bank. He has advised numerous landmark transactions including the sale of Harrods to Qatar Holdings. Mr Costa has more than 30 years of senior investment banking experience, including large infrastructure and investment projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In a bid to promote President Koroma’s free health care initiative, Skye Bank November 29^th donated a cheque of Le 12 million (twelve million leones) to medical doctors assigned to the Epilepsy Clinic at Connaught Hospital.

While presenting the cheque, the Chairman Board of Directors Skye Bank, Dr. Patrick Coker, maintained it is the bank’s desire to eradicate epilepsy from among lactating mothers, pregnant women and under five children countrywide.

Francisco Paesa bamboozled terrorists, laundered money, entrapped crooked police chiefs, became mixed up in a dirty war fought on French soil, fooled Interpol and placed a death notice in a Spanish newspaper asking monks to pray for his soul.

Now the freelance Spanish superspy has resurfaced at the age of 75, cheekily calling on diplomats from his home country to rescue him from a tight situation involving a private jet, Sierra Leone border guards and a mysterious cargo of gold masks.