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African Petroleum Corporation Limited (NSX: AOQ) (“African Petroleum” or the “Company”), a West African focused oil and gas exploration company, is pleased to announce that its wholly owned subsidiary, African Petroleum Côte d’Ivoire Limited (“African Petroleum Côte d’Ivoire”), has entered into an agreement with the Société Nationale d’Opérations Pétrolières de la Côte d’Ivoire (“PETROCI”) and the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire (the “State of Côte d’Ivoire”) to acquire one offshore exploration permit covering block CI-513 (“Permit”) as shown in the attached map.

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Sierra Leone is one country in the world which is yet to have a Country Water Partnership (CWP) which aims to contribute to the improvement of Water Resources Management (WRM) in the country.
Speaking in a conference past December, Dr. Bashiru M. Koroma, disclosed that WRM seeks to support pro-poor, marginalized rural communities to improve on the access to water resources management, water supply and sanitation, through low-cost, affordable, bottom-up and sustainable approaches.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A few years after leaving Franklin and Marshall College's leafy campus in Lancaster, alumna Kristen Stephen and Morgan Marks reconnected last month at an apartment on a gritty North Philadelphia street.

Inside, a 25-year-old woman from Sierra Leone rocked her new baby and mixed warm tea with cocoa for her 3-year-old as the college friends recalled the life-changing day in 2007 they had met the woman at the York County Prison.

"I was scared out of my mind walking into that prison. And she's in there with women who have actually committed crimes," Marks said. "She was just turning 20, younger than us. ... I couldn't imagine myself reversing roles."

The woman was seeking asylum. Marks, 25, and Stephen, 26, were assigned to help her case as part of a unique seminar at F&M called Human Rights/Human Wrongs.

One of Sierra Leone’s most dynamic entrepreneurs, Anthony Navo,  has been elected as Chairman of  (AWOL) All Works of Life, a major non-profit and non-political charitable organisation that is already impacting lives in the West African State. The inauguration of the new Chairman will take place on Friday at the old school complex, Hill Station, in Freetown. Anthony Navo who is currently the Director of Communications at African Minerals, is an outstanding Sierra Leonean whose contribution to the social and economic life of his country has always been remarkable.

While some of us are starting the new year filled with good intentions – like eating less sweets and hitting the gym more often – a Tinton Falls couple will kick off 2012 with a medical mission to Sierra Leone to provide health care to women in a country that has five ob-gyns to serve its 5.5 million people.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Jan. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Sunergy, Inc (the "Company") is pleased to announce that it has received further analytical results on its Pampana (Sierra Leone, West Africa) Heavy Mineral Sands. Using lower analytical detection units than previous tests at Currenta's analytical laboratory in Leverkusen, Germany, we have discovered that the sands contain potential economic quantities of Silver, Platinum and Palladium, in addition to the known Gold and Rare Earth Elements.

With fellow oil companies finding it hard to land contracts, the junior African Petroleum founded by Frank Timis, an Australian of Romanian origin, has been winning a raft of new concessions in West Africa’s offshore.

A MORPETH women’s group is celebrating making a difference across the globe.

Soroptimist International has reached its £1million target to support Hope and Home for Children’s life-saving work with women and children in Sierra Leone.

The four-year fund-raising initiative was supported by Soroptimist groups worldwide, including branches in Morpeth and Hexham, which have organised events to collect cash for the cause.

As we get ready to usher in 2012, we would like to offer three options if you're looking to say goodbye to 2011 with a bang! It's going to be hectic, so if you're one of those who gets into church at 11.58pm and out at 12.02am, you might want to check these out next!

SCIO, Ore. (WTW) — Christmas has come and gone here, but it will arrive in a few weeks for 460 schoolchildren in Buedu, Sierra Leone, Africa.

And Santa Claus is going to arrive by jumbo jet in the form of Rheanna McDaniel, a blond, blue-eyed 11-year-old, supported unselfishly by this mid-valley community of 800.