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The Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) has introduced a new payment system aimed at reducing the current clearing cycle for cheques and increasing.The new modernized payment system is an automated platform that relies on an interconnected virtual network hosting the country’s financial institutions. Explaining the new system to high value customers of Commercial Banks yesterday, […]

Kei Kamara will be missing from the match against the Columbus Crew to play in Sierra Leone’s final World Cup Qualifying match. This makes Sporting’s lineup choices slimmer. Add Kei Kamara to the list of people missing for this Saturday’s match against the Columbus Crew. The forward was called up for national team duty for […]

The Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Sheka Tarawalie and the Director of Prisons, Sanpha Bilo Kamara successfully launched the Art Resourceful Tourism-Sierra Leone, UK branch (ARTSL- UK branch) on Saturday, 24th August 2013. From London, they were accompanied to Reading by the Resident Minister Northern Province, Alie D. Kamara and the High Commissioner to the […]

Head of Infrastructure Section of the European Union (EU), Gianpiero Borzillo has disclosed that for a period of five years,from 2007-2013, they have spent about €300 million in Sierra Leone. In an interview with Awoko, Borzillo said that they have implemented lots of infrastructural programme in the country and this has seen the recent completion […]

The president of Sierra Leone has confirmed receipt of a $1m donation from Saudi Arabia’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, to be used to fund improved maternal and child health and youth employment in the west African country. The donation was made through the prince’s Alwaleed Foundation and was originally confirmed in June this year. https://www.arabianbusiness.com/saudi-s-prince-alwaleed-donates-1m-sierra-leone-514787.html

The General Manager of International Department for China Gezhouba Group Corporation, the company credited for constructing on the Three Gorges Dam. H as disclosed  interest in developing projects on  energy and municipal projects, such as water power, wind power and solar power, sewage treatment, bridges, highways, airports and ports. (Victor Foh, Sierra Lone)  

As part of its continuous efforts to promote road safety campaign, the Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA) on Tuesday 13thAugust, 2013 signed agreements with fourteen (14) community radio stations nationwide to promote road safety campaign through advocacy, weekly programs and jingles. SLRTA Executive Director, Dr. Sarah Finda Bendu encouraged station managers to prioritize road […]

(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors charged a man from Sierra Leone with trying to sell undercover agents 1,000 tons of yellowcake uranium he thought would be shipped to Iran, after he was arrested in New York with a sample of the toxic material hidden in his luggage. Patrick Campbell, 33, of Freetown, was arrested at John […]

The Mayor of the Riverside City, Ohaio State in the United States of America, Bill Kelvin Flaute on Wednesday July 17th paid a courtesy call on the Mayor of the City of Bo, Harold Logic Tucker. Kelvin Bill Flaute is in Sierra Leone to see his son Kelvin Flaute who is a Peace Corp Volunteer […]

The European Union (EU) has been one of the organizations that has been supporting Sierra Leone in a lot of developmental areas, including infrastructure, governance and institutional development project and economic and trade. In an interview with Gianpiero Borzillo, Head of Infrastructure Section of the EU in Sierra Leone, disclosed that as energy is part […]