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The Sierra Leone Premier League 2013/14 season commences today with 14 premiership clubs across the country.   Nine venues have been selected as playing grounds for the competition and each club will receive the sum of five million Leones for every round of the competition.  https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/58606

Notts County have signed Sierra Leone international Mustapha Dumbuya from Crawley Town. The 25-year-old right-back, who has one Sierra Leone cap, will join up with the English League One club on their pre-season tour of Finland from Wednesday. County manager Chris Kiwomya told the club’s official website: “I’ve seen Mustapha play, I’ve spoken to him […]

Joint efforts cultivated by China and Africa on agricultural development are bearing fruit – and many other foodsThe Population Bomb, a best-selling book by Stanford University professor Paul Ehrlich published in 1968, warned of the mass starvation of humans in the 1970s and 1980s due to overpopulation. Thanks mainly to agriculturalists around the world constantly […]

In a clear demonstration of its corporate social responsibility to the people of a country in which it has operated for the past three years, HAWK, a British construction company past Sunday cleared a blocked culvert on the main road linking Grafton with Furniture Junction. The culvert which had been blocked for several years now […]

In a bid to galvanize support locally and internationally in the fight against corruption in Sierra Leone, members of the Media Alliance against Corruption (MAAC) have forged a close bilateral working relationship with the Ghanaian High Commission in Freetown. This partnership, according to the National Coordinator, Betty Milton, is to explore training opportunities through the […]

DAKAR — Countries of the Mano River basin in West Africa are trying to forge a joint strategy to counter the cross-border movement of armed groups and the illegal trafficking of weapons in their region.   Representatives of the United Nations and regional organizations joined the talks on Saturday.  https://www.voanews.com/content/mano-river-countries-tackle-cross-border-arms/1692218.html

The Sierra Leonean Minister of Energy, Mr Oluyimi Coker, yesterday called on his Ghanaian counterpart, Mr Emmanuel Amarh-Kofi Buah, in his office to activate a two-year old memorandum of understanding (MoU) under which the Ghanaian government is to provide technical assistance for the management, operation and maintenance of the power system in Sierra Leone. – […]

The result of the Sierra Leone Integrated Household Surveys conducted by Statistic Sierra Leone has indicated that poverty trends in the country have reduced from 6.4% to 52.9%.This revelation was made on Wednesday, 26th July 2013 at a presentation of the Second Phase of the Sierra Leone Integrated Household Surveys in the Conference Room of […]

The Sierra Leone Union of Photographers (SLUP) in collaboration with Access to Security and Justice Programme (ASJP) last Friday, June 21st 2013 started a-three day workshop at the Pastoral Centre in Kenema on the theme: ‘Know your Rights to Justice and showcasing success stories and challenging of the Justice sector’. The Chairman of the occasion, […]

The personnel of the Sierra Leone contingent deployed in Somalia as part of the UN Peacekeeping Mission, AMISOM, have repelled an ambush by Al-Shabab fighters killing many and capturing alive, two of the assailants.This record success in Somalia by a peacekeeping contingent is the first since the start of the mission in that belligerent country. […]