IMF projects Salone GDP to grow by 4.3 percent but…
March 31, 2016 By Alusine Sesay Head of an International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation which visited Freetown from 15-29 March, 2016 to conduct the fifth review under the Extended Credit Facility...
View ArticleMember States to discuss Africa’s agriculture issues
April 1, 2016 The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations will from 4 to 8 April, 2016 hold its 29th Regional Conference for Africa (ARC29) in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, to discuss...
View ArticleWorld Bank to support improved ferry service
April 1, 2016 By Ibrahim Tarawallie The World Bank Regional Director for Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone has spoken about the bank’s plan to support the transport sector, particularly in the...
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Opinion-Editorial on the occasion of the 29th Session of the FAO Regional...
Acting now to end hunger in Africa by 2025 April 4, 2016 By José Graziano da Silva, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) José Graziano da Silva,...
View ArticleChina CDC plans ahead of Zika in Sierra Leone
April 4, 2016 By Ausine Sesay Although no case of the Zika Virus is yet to be reported in Sierra Leone, the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, His Excellency Zhao Yanbo, has confirmed that the...
View ArticleOne thousand African Entrepreneurs join $100M Tony Elumelu Programme
April 5, 2016 The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) has announced the selection of the second set of 1,000 entrepreneurs for the 2016 cycle of the Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP). Launched...
View ArticleAfrican80 to launch book in Johannesburg
April 6, 2016 A group of 80 young African leaders is set to launch a book they have co-authored on 25 May, 2016 in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa. The book, titled, “Africa80” was conceptualised...
View ArticleFINDING SALVATION III: Sentimentality Only Induces Emotion And Not Action
April 7, 2016 By Raymond Dele Awoonor –Gordon (awogordon@yahoo.com) For those untainted by ethnic, religious and socio-political colouration, and who can discern between reason and sentiment, peace...
View ArticlePanama Papers Leak… - Koidu Holdings and Octea Mining exposed!!
Koidu Holdings and Octea Mining exposed!! April 7, 2016 By Gabriel Benjamin On 3 April, the Panama Papers leaked set of 11.5 million confidential documents that provide detailed information on more...
View ArticleNOC-SL members elect presidential duo
April 7, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Members of the National Olympic Committee of Sierra Leone (NOC-SL) Wednesday elected President of Sierra Leone Wrestling Association, Prince Sualley, and the Sierra...
View ArticlePresident Koroma to attend OIC summit in Istanbul
April 8, 2016 By Ibrahim Tarawallie President Ernest Bai Koroma will attend the 13th Session of the Islamic Summit Conference which will be held at the level of Heads of the States from the 14-15...
View ArticleBringing Law to Life: Paralegal Interventions in Natural Resource Exploitation
April 11, 2016 By Sonkita Conteh, Director, Namati Sierra Leone Introduction When a diamond mining company closed its operations in Mofuwe Village, in the south of Sierra Leone, it left behind three...
View ArticleLack of Government Support: Children Continue to Suffer in Silence
April 12, 2016 By Joseph S. Margai Negligence on the part of the Government of Sierra Leone to support and promote the wellbeing of Sierra Leonean children has left many of them doing menial jobs to...
View ArticleBarrie sets new 400m outdoor record
April 13, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Sierra Leonean and United States-based female athlete, Maggie Barrie, has set a new 400 metres personal best record in the outdoor season opener at a meet in Baton...
View ArticleHero’s welcome awaits Cricket national team
April 19, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. Deputy Minister of Sports, Ishmael Al Sankoh-Conteh, Monday revealed that the Sierra Leone national cricket team, ‘The Patriots’, will be accorded a hero’s welcome...
View ArticleICC President on opening the permanent HQ - “The International Criminal Court...
“The International Criminal Court is here to stay” OP-ED April 19, 2016 By Judge Silvia Fernández, ICC President Today the permanent premises of the International Criminal Court, the ICC, officially...
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UK firm ‘employed former child soldiers’ as mercenaries in Iraq
April 19, 2016 A 2000 image of a 14-year-old soldier in Sierra Leone Photograph: Adam Butler/AP A former senior director at a British firm says that it employed mercenaries from Sierra Leone to work in...
View ArticleVP Foh denies signing toxic waste deal - ...As he returns from Lebanon
...As he returns from Lebanon April 20, 2016 By Ibrahim Tarawallie Vice President Victor Bockarie Foh yesterday denied he did not sign any deal that has to do with toxic waste while on an official...
View ArticleRethinking West Africa’s War on Drugs
April 21, 2016 By Abdul Tejan-Cole & Nana Afadzinu* By now, it has become almost a cliché to say that the war on drugs has failed. The prohibitionist approach, most fully articulated by former US...
View ArticleGambia move to camp ahead of S/Leone encounter
April 21, 2016 By Sahr Morris Jr. The Gambia national U-20 team, Darling Scorpions, have moved to camp ahead of their 2017 African U-20 Youth championship qualifiers second leg tie against Sierra...
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