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AIM-listed Golden Saint Resources (LON:GSR) has exported its first shipment of around 400 carats of diamonds from Sierra Leone. The uncut, gem quality diamonds will shortly arrive at Solid Gold Jewellers in Perth, Australia, the company revealed. The stones vary in size from one carat up to 13.9 carats and comprise white, brown and yellow diamonds, which […]

LONDON (Alliance News) – Golden Saint Resources Ltd Tuesday said that its first shipment of roughly 400 carats of uncut, gem quality diamonds has been exported from Sierra Leone and will shortly arrive at Solid Gold Jewellers Pty Ltd In Australia for polishing. https://www.lse.co.uk/AllNews.asp?code=3u8b5v04&headline=Golden_Saint_Resources_First_Shipment_Of_Diamonds_has_Been_Exported_From_Sierra_Leone

Three countries are yet to arrive for the 2013 GOTV West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Cup tournament beginning in Kumasi on Thursday, November 21. With barely 24 hours to the commencement of the tournament, Burkina Faso, Niger and Liberia have still not reported for the competition that spans November 21-28. – See more at: https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2013/11/20/three-countries-yet-to-arrive-for-wafu-tourney-in-ghana/#sthash.mKR38ONJ.dpuf

Endeavor Energy has inked an agreement with Joule Africa to jointly develop and build the 202MW Bumbuna Phase 2 hydroelectric scheme in Sierra Leone. The $700m project will add to the existing 50MW at Bumbuna Phase 1 (pictured), which was completed and commissioned in 2009. https://renews.biz/54340/endeavour-signs-for-202mw-hydro/

Two Hempfield High School teens recently traveled to Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, to share the game of lacrosse to the children of The Agape Preparatory School in the village of Goderich. As founders of the FootSouls Lacrosse Foundation, Megan Brogan and Zach Ward delivered the more than 200 pairs of shoes/cleats, 20-plus lacrosse sticks, […]

At the age of 13 Ishmael Beah went from living as a normal boy growing up in Sierra Leone to a child solider. On Nov. 11 he shared his story. The university welcomed The New York Times best-selling author and civil rights advocate to tell his story and talk about his book “A Long Way Gone” […]

StockMarketWire.com – Sula Iron & Gold, a multi-commodity exploration company focussed on Sierra Leone, has begun further exploration work to establish the extent of gold mineralisation at its wholly owned 153 sq km Ferensola Project, located in the northern part of the Sula-Kangari Greenstone Belt in Sierra Leone – See more at: https://www.stockmarketwire.com/article/4708806/Sula-start-further-exploration-work-in-Sierra-Leone.html#sthash.88QMxtx9.dpuf

FREETOWN – The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has welcomed a donation of US$4.5 million from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS. Tuberculosis and Malaria through Sierra Leone’s National AIDS Secretariat and Ministry of Health and Sanitation to fund vital nutritional support for people affected by HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis. https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/63039

Sierra Leone’s top diplomat has said that the Third Africa Arab Summit in the State of Kuwait on 19th and 20th November, 2013 is expected to discuss the possibility of creating an Arab-African common market. Dr. Samura M. Kamara (in photo) who joined Arab and African foreign ministers in the oil-rich Gulf State on Sunday, […]

The Isle of Man’s role in rescuing poor coastal communities in West Africa from the blight of illegal fishing by foreign trawlers has been highlighted at an international conference on environmental crime. The provision of a fisheries protection vessel and ongoing advice to Sierra Leone, as well as the installation of a satellite monitoring system […]