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Sierra Leone’s Nature has of late come under serious attack by greedy and unpatriotic citizens, as a result of illegal activities on the country’s historic tourism site of Outamba Kilimi National Park (OKNP) that serves as home to Elephants, Chimpanzees, Hippos, Buffalos, Maxwell Duikers, Water and Bush Bucks, Monkeys, Civets among other animals.The Sierra Leone […]

Mayor of Blackburn UK, Mullah Salim recently visited the Mayor, Franklyn Bode Gibson and Staff of the Freetown City Council, on what he refers to as a call for Business. Speaking in the Mayor’s  Parlour, the Blackburn Mayor said that he is very happy to be in Sierra Leone, because this is a country that […]

UNITED NATIONS, June 18 (Xinhua) — The death toll from an outbreak of Ebola in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has hit 337 since February, a UN spokesman said here Wednesday, quoting data from the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO said 47 new cases and 14 deaths had been reported in the region in […]

Sierra Leone’s top diplomat in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia today, Wednesday, 18th June, 2014 participated in the 41st Session of the Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states.  (Photo: Ambassador Kargbo and Deputy Kazakhstan Foreign Minister) Ambassador Mohamed Sillah Kargbo represented Dr. Samura M. Kamara, Sierra Leone’s Foreign and […]

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the first review of Sierra Leone’s economic program under a three-year arrangement under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for Sierra Leone.1

His parents are from Sierra Leone, but Francis Tiafoe, 16, is being talked about as the next big American tennis star.  He has won the 18-and-under titles at the top two U.S. junior events, making him the first player to pull that off since John McEnroe in 1976.  Tiafoe just returned from the French Open […]

On the occasion of the United Nations’ World Environment Day, DHL, called its 480,000 employees world wide, for action to participate in activities for the environment and the climate. However, this form of engagement is not a one-time activity: the Group’s Go-Green program was launched in 2009 and encompasses the overall carbon efficiency improvement as […]

The  Rogbonko Village  Retreat  is  an  initiative intended  to  generate  interest   in  rural  Sierra Leone, and to educate visitors and local people alike in the importance of traditional  values. The Retreat is run by and employs local villagers and is an important  source of  revenue for  the community.  Income from  assisting visitors  and selling […]

The recent order by Malawi’s Electoral Commission (MEC) for a manual recount of electoral results following massive voting irregularities was an inadvertent admission that the experiment with electronic voting technology did not turn out well for the country’s recent elections. Like had earlier occurred in Ghana in 2012, where voting was extended by a day, […]

A concert, fashion show, barbecue and silent auction will take place in Surrey this month to help young people in Sierra Leone. The People’s Foundation of Sierra Leone (TPF) will host its biggest fundraising event of the year June 14 at Surrey Christian School’s Secondary Campus Salone Fest, a celebration of youth empowerment in Sierra Leone, […]