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President Ernest Bai Koroma on Friday 10th January called on the Japanese Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe to strengthen the partnership with Africa to support and accelerate the African common position on the reform of the United Nations Security Council. He made this statement during the ECOWAS meeting at the Sofitel Conference in Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire. […]

The government of Sierra Leone has issued an ultimatum to Comium, which has been plagued by debt, a strike and criticism from subscribers about network problems. Read more: https://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/network-wifi/3496921/sierra-leone-government-poised-to-take-over-comium/#ixzz2qNLv9S00

President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma on Thursday 9th January received the credentials of the New Chinese Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Zhao Yanbo and the Italian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Alfonso Di Riso at the Credentials Hall, State House, Freetown. Receiving the Chinese Ambassador on the one hand, President Koroma described the People’s Republic as a […]

Sierra Leonean international and Dinamo Minsk defender Umaru ’Zingalay’ Bangura (photo) has been voted the sierraleonefootball.com player of the year 2013 by viewers of the website. The announcement was made during  a live radio sports programme aired worldwide by sierraleonefootball.com on Sunday, a day after the voting ended. https://www.thepatrioticvanguard.com/spip.php?article7589

World Vision has donated motorbikes and bicycles to help promote health for pregnant women in Sierra Leone. The charity bestowed Bo District Medical Health Team with 14 motorcycles and eight push bikes to help staff reach people living in remote parts of the country. Officials also donated Baby Friendly Park to expectant mothers in the […]

Natural resource revenues have played a key role in the conflicts that have plagued resource-rich African countries over the past three decades. In Angola, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia, Mozambique, and Sierra Leone, the story is all too familiar. Discover hidden resource wealth and descend into stellar amounts of robbery from the land […]

DW’s English for Africa Service has partner stations in Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Uganda and Zambia. https://www.dw.de/africalink-partner-stations/a-17353927

Located in Kaffu Bullom, Lungi – Harmony Hotel is used to dealing with corporate and recreational clients. The accommodation is exceptional in the area and all rooms have air conditioning. You have a magnificent view of the Great Scarcies river and they can also arrange airport shuttles. All rooms are air conditioned.

Sula Iron & Gold, a multi-commodity exploration company focussed on Sierra Leone, has completed a detailed ground magnetometer and geochemical soil survey over several of its gold targets at its wholly owned 153 km2 Ferensola Project. The Project, which is prospective for both iron and gold is located within the northern sector of the Sula-Kangari […]

From 1991 to 2002 civil war consumed Sierra Leone, killing more than 50,000 people. While the story of the war has been told in various forms (most notably the Hollywood movie Blood Diamond), far less attention has focused on the country’s attempts to step out from behind the specter of violenc   But in this short […]