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Ernest Bai Koroma, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Gennady Gatilov, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, and Andrey Kuzyaev. President of LUKOIL Overseas, yesterday held  in Sierra Leone the launch of drilling on the SL-5-11 block in the deepwater shelf of the West Africa. https://awoko.org/2013/09/13/sierra-leone-news-lukoil-starts-exploration-drilling-in-sierra-leone/

Head of Public Relations and Communications in the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) has disclosedthat the government is poised to send another military contingent to Somalia in early 2014. Col. M.M. Samura said the Ministry of Defence will soon commence the training of the second battalion that would replace the first one deployed […]

This summary presents perspectives from Civil Society in Sierra Leone on progress made and challenges experienced in relation to the national efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and the extent to which MDG processes have provided opportunities to enhance participatory governance and civil society relations with government. Based on their reflections, Sierra Leonean […]

It’s a simple but classy occasion, the re-launch of Miss Sierra Leone Limited and launching of Miss Sierra Leone 2013 activities at the Sierra Light House Aberdeen.  Freetown, graced by eminent personalities and entertainment celebrities who have made proud attempts in flying the national flag internationally https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/60537

Will Kenya jump ship now that the country’s parliament has voted for the government to quit the Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) which had wanted to make history by trying a sitting president?Would the government take up the bait, hook, line and sinker and jam the door on the jurist organization? But it is not […]

Maryland — All eyes will be on Lady Felicia and Vicky Forna who will be performing live at a fund-raising dinner and dance to be organized by the United Sierra Leone Sisters at the Loft Ball Room on 9375 Washington. Blve Laurel Maryland, United States of America on Saturday 14th September. https://allafrica.com/stories/201309091509.html

Sierra Leone’s envoy to the People’s Republic of China, also with accreditation to several other countries in the southeast Asia pacific region, Victor Bockarie Foh, on Thursday 5th September, called on dozens of Sierra Leonean students . Who arrived in Beijing, to pursue different courses of study to be hard working, be good representatives of […]

The Government of Sierra Leone last Wednesday donated one million US dollar to the African Union (AU) Trust Fund on Mali. Sierra Leone donated the stated amount in honoring the pledge it made during the Donors’ conference on Mali, held in Addis Ababa, on 29 January 2013. The pledge was made in response to the […]

AFTER being asked to help out at an African school, a Ponteland woman has decided to stay put and do all she can to help its children. Kate Stoddart went to Sierra Leone in January to do some volunteering work for a micro-finance organisation and was based in the Makeni area. During the trip, she […]

Transport & Aviation Minister, Leonard Balogun Koroma on Thursday 29th August 2013 was accorded a warm welcome by colleague cabinet ministers, Members of Parliament, China railway information, Sierra Leone Police, the military, transport stakeholders.  Paramount Chief Kopah Bomboli of Koya Chiefdom, Port Loko District and the electorates at Masiaka on a ministerial sensitization tour and countdown […]