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FREETOWN — At the end of this month, more than 15 years of United Nations peacekeeping operations will end in Sierra Leone.  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in the country’s capital for two days to mark the occasion.  Peace Muhammad Duada Kamara was just a child when a civil war broke out in his country of […]

FREETOWN — At the end of this month, more than 15 years of United Nations peacekeeping operations will end in Sierra Leone.  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in the country’s capital for two days to mark the occasion.  Peace Muhammad Duada Kamara was just a child when a civil war broke out in his country of […]

The Northern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has raised the hopes of people living in Malone Village, Makump Section in the Kholifa Rowalla Chiefdom, Tonkolili District for better lives; by expressing its commitment in fulfilling its vision of a corrupt free Sierra Leone wherein the social and economic needs of all citizens would […]

MONDAY MARCH 3, 2014 – The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) yesterday implored the leadership of the Sierra Leone House of Parliament to support the Association in its quest to have the criminal portions of the Public Order Act of 1965 expunged and/or reviewed.  (Photo: Speaker of Parliament, S.B.B. Dumbuya and SLAJ President, Kelvin Lewis) First […]

Ban Ki Moon arrives today at the start of a two day visit to Sierra Leone.This visit is largely to celebrate 15 years of UN peace keeping and peace building operations in Sierra Leone, which comes to an end on the 31st March 2014. For the UN there is something to celebrate, and for Sierra […]

Chinese Ambassador Zhao Yanbo since his arrival in Sierra Leone has been paying courtesies to government officials to familiarise himself with the workings in Sierra Leone. In the past week, he started paying courtesies to government officials.  He paid a courtesy call on Hon. Chief Justice of Sierra Leone Mrs. Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh at her […]

Bo, March 1 (SLENA) – The Local Councils Internal Public Expenditure Financial Accountability (PEFA) workshop organized by the Public Financial Management Reform Unit (PFMRU) of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED) continued in Bo with six local councils drawn from the four regions of the country as participants. https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/65631

Stellar Diamonds raised £314 914 after they exercised over 28 million warrants by two of its supportive major shareholders that will help fund its on-going definitive feasibility study at its 1.1 m carat Tongo Dyke-1 kimberlite project in Sierra Leone, which has a 1.1 million carat resource. https://www.miningreview.com/stellar-diamonds-raised-314k-to-fund-tongo-project/

Early Sunday morning, March 2, 2014, this paper received from the outgoing leadership of the Sports Writers Association of Liberia (SWAL),the heartbreaking news that Liberia’s first ever female sports journalist madam Ena Kebbeh Harmon is dead. When our reporter received the sms message from SWAL Vice President Martina Brooks who’s walking in the shadow of […]

As the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Executive continues to strengthen ties with diplomatic missions in the country, the Chinese Embassy in Sierra Leone has offered one Masters Scholarship to the Association as part of their support to the media. This offer was made yesterday Wednesday when the Executive paid a courtesycall on the […]