Sierra
Leone Must Focus on Roots of War - 26 September 2005
United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan praised Sierra Leone’s
government for its progress towards consolidating peace, but said
that many underlying causes of the 14-year conflict, such as youth
unemployment, have yet to be addressed, reported UN News Centre
on September 23.
US
props Sierra Leone rights, pro-democracy groups - 21
September 2005
Five civic groups have received grants totalling $120,000 from the
US government to help promote good governance and respect for human
rights in Sierra Leone.
Sierra
Leone commissions $9mn cement mill - 07 September 2005
President Tejan Kabbah commissioned a US$9 million cement production
mill in Cline Town, east of here, saying the new investment reflected
growing confidence in post-war Sierra Leone.
Solomon
Berewa wins SLPP Leadership Contest - 05 September
2005
Solomon Berewa, Sierra Leone's current Vice President has
won the SLPP Leadership contest
DfID
fund PR campaign for privatisation in Salone - 31 August
2005
The UK’s Department for International Development
(DfID) is spending UK aid money on a public relations campaign to
pursue a privatisation agenda in Sierra Leone.
Libya
Provides 30 Tractors,40 Buses, 10 Doctors -
17 August 2005
As President Kabbah's efforts in ensuring that his pledge of making
Sierra Leone food secure by 2007 becomes a reality, the Libyan Government
has donated a total of 30 tractors including implements as their
own contribution to the food security drive.
China
sends health workers to Sierra Leone - 17 August 2005
at 21:52
Ten medical personnel from the People`s Republic of China have arrived
here to help boost Sierra Leone`s ailing health sector. They include
surgeons, physicians, ear, nose and throat specialists, obstetricians
and anaesthetists.
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