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DAKAR — Countries of the Mano River basin in West Africa are trying to forge a joint strategy to counter the cross-border movement of armed groups and the illegal trafficking of weapons in their region.   Representatives of the United Nations and regional organizations joined the talks on Saturday.  https://www.voanews.com/content/mano-river-countries-tackle-cross-border-arms/1692218.html

The Sierra Leonean Minister of Energy, Mr Oluyimi Coker, yesterday called on his Ghanaian counterpart, Mr Emmanuel Amarh-Kofi Buah, in his office to activate a two-year old memorandum of understanding (MoU) under which the Ghanaian government is to provide technical assistance for the management, operation and maintenance of the power system in Sierra Leone. – […]

The result of the Sierra Leone Integrated Household Surveys conducted by Statistic Sierra Leone has indicated that poverty trends in the country have reduced from 6.4% to 52.9%.This revelation was made on Wednesday, 26th July 2013 at a presentation of the Second Phase of the Sierra Leone Integrated Household Surveys in the Conference Room of […]

The Sierra Leone Union of Photographers (SLUP) in collaboration with Access to Security and Justice Programme (ASJP) last Friday, June 21st 2013 started a-three day workshop at the Pastoral Centre in Kenema on the theme: ‘Know your Rights to Justice and showcasing success stories and challenging of the Justice sector’. The Chairman of the occasion, […]

The personnel of the Sierra Leone contingent deployed in Somalia as part of the UN Peacekeeping Mission, AMISOM, have repelled an ambush by Al-Shabab fighters killing many and capturing alive, two of the assailants.This record success in Somalia by a peacekeeping contingent is the first since the start of the mission in that belligerent country. […]

It might have been a box-office hit, but Leo di Caprio’s Blood Diamonds cut a deep scar on Sierra Leone’s international reputation. The savage civil war ended 10 years ago and the country is still associated with unethical diamond mining and child soldiers.As a result, tourists have stayed away – last year the country had […]

The Sierra Freetown Lions Club was over the weekend re-activated during a ceremony held at the Sierra Light House Hotel at Aberdeen by its members in the country with the aim to serve communities. Lions International Club is the world largest humanitarian service club organization.Speaking at the official launching ceremony, President of the Sierra Freetown […]

UNICEF’s Water, Sanitation and Health (WASH) project implemented by Hope-Sierra Leone in Bombali Shebora Chiefdom, has resulted to the construction of twenty latrines in schools situated in ten communities to address the issue of open defecation, in a bid to curb poor hygiene in the chiefdom. Past week, a consortium of five NGOs working as […]

His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has paid glowing tribute to the outstanding role played by the Peace Corps in not just his academic life, but the life of most Sierra Leoneans in the country. He noted that the volunteers were coming into the country at a time when the expectations of the people are […]

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sierra Leone (ICASL) over the weekend concluded its 25th Anniversary celebration with the award of certificates to its members at a dinner at the Bank Complex, Kingtom. In his background to the establishment of the Institute, the President, Claudius Williams-Tucker explained that it was established in 1988 by an […]