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Endeavor Energy, a privately owned independent power development and generation company, and international power developer Joule Africa are to develop and construct the US$700 million Bumbuna phase II power project, a hydroelectric power scheme in Sierra Leone projected to add an additional 202 MW to the existing 50 MW at Bumbuna phase I. https://www.esi-africa.com/agreement-to-develop-202-mw-hydro-project-in-sierra-leone/

WASHINGTON , November 27 , 2013/ African Press Organization (APO)/ — The World Bank Board of Directors today approved an IDA* credit of $US12 million to support the Government of Sierra Leone’s plans to improve budget planning, accountability, and oversight of government finances. The funds will support Sierra Leone’s Public Financial Management Improvement and Consolidation (PFMIC) […]

In striving tirelessly to control and destroy graft in public and private sector institutions, the Anti-Corruption Commission Northern Regional Office has on Tuesday 19th November 2013 dialogued with officers and the rank and file of the Sierra Leone Police, (SLP) Magburaka Division in Magburaka.  (Photo:Cross section of SLP personnel in Magburaka listening to anti-graft messages from ACC […]

There are 160 babies who die each day as a result of tetanus. It is the reason Kiwanis International and UNICEF have teamed up to create the “Eliminate Project” with the goal of eliminating maternal and neonatal tetanus from the face of the Earth. The Cleveland Kiwanis heard a personal story about the efforts from […]

Guaranty Trust Bank Sierra Leone Limited over the weekend donated two hundred and forty standard airport chairs to the Freetown International Airport in Lungi at a ceremony held at the Airport. Chairing the handing over ceremony, Dr. George Taylor-Lewis said the ceremony was part of the bank’s corporate social responsibility, to give back to build […]

If only history is something that one can rely on, one will say President Ernest Bai Korma of Sierra Leone is the first President of Sierra Leone that spent complete five years in office without jailing any journalist in the country.  I used the word ‘’if” because some histories are being distorted by bad historian […]

Warren Memorial Methodist Church, Krootown Road, has launched its remodelling project as part of Warren day celebration of the Warren Society of the Wesley Circuit in the Methodist Church Sierra Leone.   (Photo: The remodelled design) Launching the project managing director Rokel Commercial Bank, Victor Keith Cole, gave a brief background https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/63281

The GoTV WAFU Cup kicked off to a flurry of goals as Ghana beat Sierra Leone 4-1 in the opener. Sponsored by GoTV, an offspring of African media giant DStv, the sub-regional event has been hailed as a timely showcase of what West Africa has to offer. https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/63309

The Regional Coordinator of the National HIV/AIDS Secretariat (NAS) eastern region Mr. Mohamed M B Sisay is putting things in place for the commemoration of the world AIDS Day on the theme leave that going to commence on the 26th November 2013 to the 2 December 2013 in Kenema, Kailahun and Kono in the Eastern Republic […]

Many people do not know about the existence of or know very little about the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights, a creation of the African Union based in Arusha, a historic city in the United Republic of Tanzania. There are many reasons for that, the most immediate being lack of media exposure, but […]