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The most daunting and critical challenges our nation faces today is the energy sector, which is the engine of economic growth for any modern society. The government of President Koroma, almost five years later, has not sufficiently delivered the expanded coverage needed to increase access to electricity in the rural communities and across the country. […]

Director of the National Aids Secretariat Dr Brima Kargbo has disclosed that the Global Fund has donated forty-nine million dollars to support HIV/AIDS activities in Sierra Leone. He made this disclosure in the opening of a three day workshop yesterday at the YWCA Hall at Brookfields in Freetown. Dr Kargbo noted that the donation is […]

A patrol boat which was gifted to Sierra Leone earlier this year is helping to stamp down on illegal fishing. The fisheries vessel ‘Panther’ was donated by the government in September after becoming surplus to requirements. Last week the Sierra Leone Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources, Dr Kabia, revealed that the boat had made […]

First impressions of what to expect in Sierra Leone were not encouraging. The Sierra Leone High Commission in the UK, where tourists are required to apply for visas, is on a narrow street in central London. The reception area was dark and shabby. Visa applicants were directed along a gloomy passage to an official sitting […]

Freetown, Sierra Leone, December 17, 2012 — 76 paralegals from 5 non-governmental organisations have benefitted from several 3 day trainings facilitated by the University of Makeni since the start of 2012. With support from the the German Government through its implementing agency “German International Cooperation” (GIZ) and the global legal empowerment organisation NAMATI, the law […]

Ever since he was a child growing up in Sierra Leone, Abdul Razak has found himself drawn to art. Razak, 25, of Takoma Park recently recalled how, as he walked to school in the morning, he would pass by and admire the pictures and statues of local artists on the street., https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/from-sierra-leone-to-takoma-park-artist-pursues-lifelong-passion/2012/12/12/25d94298-43cc-11e2-8e70-e1993528222d_story.html

A boomtown is rising in the jungle- covered mountains of Sierra Leone. Bumbuna, estimated population 12,000, just got a new bank. A growing Sunday congregation spills out from underneath blue tarps that serve as a makeshift church. In hills where armed men once abducted children, school kids now get coloring books featuring a smiling bulldozer […]

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World football governing body Fifa has finally announced its ‘normalisation committee’ for the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA). The five-man team will be headed by a one time SLFA executive Alie Fornah, and it has six months to conduct fresh elections.   The committee will be responsible for the daily business of the association, taking […]

The Sierra Leone Police Force (SLP) will be hosting a six days conference of the 7th African Contact Officers Network of Interpol in March 2013. Director of Interpol Department, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Mohamed Yansaneh. said that the meeting in Freetown will discuss and highlight many issues relating to the improvement and establishment of […]