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The Government of Sierra Leone last Wednesday donated one million US dollar to the African Union (AU) Trust Fund on Mali. Sierra Leone donated the stated amount in honoring the pledge it made during the Donors’ conference on Mali, held in Addis Ababa, on 29 January 2013. The pledge was made in response to the […]

AFTER being asked to help out at an African school, a Ponteland woman has decided to stay put and do all she can to help its children. Kate Stoddart went to Sierra Leone in January to do some volunteering work for a micro-finance organisation and was based in the Makeni area. During the trip, she […]

Transport & Aviation Minister, Leonard Balogun Koroma on Thursday 29th August 2013 was accorded a warm welcome by colleague cabinet ministers, Members of Parliament, China railway information, Sierra Leone Police, the military, transport stakeholders.  Paramount Chief Kopah Bomboli of Koya Chiefdom, Port Loko District and the electorates at Masiaka on a ministerial sensitization tour and countdown […]

A one-day meeting of Stakeholders in agriculture across the country has ended at the multipurpose building at the Chinese Farm along Wahman Abu Road in Kenema City marking the launching of two agricultural projects funded by the European Union (EU).The projects expected to last for three years targeting 30, 000 (thirty thousand) farmers are focused […]

In fulfillment of the of the Mines and Minerals Act of 2009 Cluff Gold Sierra Leone a subsidiary of Amara Mining has paid slightly over Le 160m as surface rent payment for the year 2013  to land owners and  local authorities within the Valunia Chiefdom Bo District Southern Sierra Leone where the company operates.Speaking at […]

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE — A new system to monitor media outlets has been implemented in Sierra Leone. While some say this will help improve reporting in the country, others worry it may censor journalists. Like many reporters worldwide, journalists in Sierra Leone spend countless hours typing away at scripts and chasing down sources for stories. Reporters […]

The Office of the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice has levied additional charges in the two on-going matters against Kabba  Simeon Khalu and others, for offences including but not limited to, conspiracy to obtain credit under false pretences for the sum of Le5.6 Billion. https://awoko.org/2013/09/03/sierra-leone-news-acc-to-investigate-crispin-deigh-others/

Sierra Leone has announced a ban on the import and use of right-hand drive vehicles, saying they posed a threat to road safety. Only vehicles that are currently in shipment will be still registered and all vehicles must be converted by September 2014, the transportation ministry said in a statement. https://www.thenewage.co.za/106174-1019-53-Sierra_Leone_imposes_ban_on_righthand_vehicles

Sitting on the rooftop of Gladys’s juice bar in Freetown, I was having an informal chat with some of the women my foundation supports. This wasn’t my first trip to Sierra Leone. I was there for International Women’s Day in March and had spoken then to some of the women. But this time I got […]

A Banbury businessman has devoted the past eight years to providing schools for some of Africa’s poorest children. Alan Wolstencroft, a member of the Rotary Club of Banbury and a trustee of the Goodwill & Growth for Africa charity, was inspired to act after taking part in a project in Sierra Leone in 2005 to […]