Sierra Leone News: Tas-Stores issues scholarships to 170 Kenema and Kailahun students

To complement the effort of government in providing quality education to its citizen across the nation, a philanthropist business man known as AMIN A. SKAIKAY (TAS-STORES) in Kenema city has on Sunday 20th April 2014 dished out scholarships worth twenty million Leones (Le20million) to one hundred and seventy (170) school going children in Kenema and […]

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Student Fee Impasse At Njala Resolved – Administration to Reopen Towama Campus

After four hours of intense deliberations last Thursday evening, the Njala University administration has agreed to reopen the Towama Campus in Bo on 22nd March, to resume examinations and lectures. Therefore, only students who have paid, at least 60% of their fees, will be allowed to take the exams, the administration has said in a […]

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The Next Big Thing You Missed: 3-D Printing Promises Better Bionic Limbs for the War-Wounded

David Sengeh grew up in Sierra Leone during the African country’s decade-long civil war. The horribly bloody conflict was defined not just by the enormous death toll, but by the way rebel armiessystematically severed the limbs of their enemies, leaving thousands of men, women, and children with missing arms and legs. Though the war ended […]

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Airtel celebrates International Women’s Day with Constituency 92

Airtel celebrated International Women’s Day with Constituency 92 in ward 326 at their head office on the 11th March.  It was a unique event as Airtel celebrated with its community people. In his welcome address, Managing Director Sudipto Chowdhury appreciated all the women as it was a pleasure being with them. This anniversary started in […]

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UN Peacekeeping Shutting Down in Sierra Leone After 15 Years

FREETOWN — At the end of this month, more than 15 years of United Nations peacekeeping operations will end in Sierra Leone.  U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is in the country’s capital for two days to mark the occasion.  Peace Muhammad Duada Kamara was just a child when a civil war broke out in his country of […]

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ACC gives hope to Malone community in Tonkolili

The Northern Regional Office of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has raised the hopes of people living in Malone Village, Makump Section in the Kholifa Rowalla Chiefdom, Tonkolili District for better lives; by expressing its commitment in fulfilling its vision of a corrupt free Sierra Leone wherein the social and economic needs of all citizens would […]

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SLAJ lobbies Parliament on Criminal Libel

MONDAY MARCH 3, 2014 – The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) yesterday implored the leadership of the Sierra Leone House of Parliament to support the Association in its quest to have the criminal portions of the Public Order Act of 1965 expunged and/or reviewed.  (Photo: Speaker of Parliament, S.B.B. Dumbuya and SLAJ President, Kelvin Lewis) First […]

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New Teaching Hospital Planned – The Mental Health Crisis of Sierra Leone

H.E. C. Vassili (Cypriot citizen) Ambassador of the International Council of Professional Therapists (ICPT) and its sister organisation the ICPT International Human Rights Council, entered into talks with Sierra Leone Ambassador to the United Kingdom, H.E. E. Turay to help find a solution to Sierra Leone’s mental health crisis  Talks had led to an understanding […]

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FRSC to establish road safety agency in Sierra-Leone

Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has concluded arrangements to establish a  replica road safety body in Sierra-Leone, following a  request made by the country’s authorities to the Federal Government, to help address its road safety challenges. The Corps Marshal, Osita Chidoka, disclosed this at the weekend while decorating the Speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, […]

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South Sudan has plunge into a resource-curse club

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 […]

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