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Sierra Leone court will soon deliver its final judgment
The court established to prosecute those responsible for killing committed during the 10-year civil war in Sierra Leone's will soon deliver its final judgment.
Justice...
Sierra Leone youth call for an end to Female Genital Mutilation
The perspective often missing in the debate regarding female genital mutilation (FGM), a harmful traditional practice involving the partial or total removal of the...
Sierre Leone: No more sanctions as diamond trade picks up
The United Nations has ended an arms embargo and travel ban on Sierra Leone rebels who engineered the decade long conflict in the West...
Sierra Leone suffers stagnant growth despite British ‘take-over’
Recent evaluation of Sierra Leone has revealed that the anger and frustration that fuelled the civil war there a decade ago are still substantial...
Drug cartels losing ground in African drug war?
Security authorities in The Gambia have seized about $1bn worth of cocaine on transit from South America to Europe. The authorities also seized large...
Sierra Leone: An ambitious health reform and a weak state capacity
Free health care initiative for pregnant women, breast-feeding mothers and children under five years old has begun in Sierra Leone; a government attempt to...
Ethiopian experts begin work on Sierra Leone hydroelectric project
Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has been hired to manage the recently constructed Bumbuna Hydroelectric Project (BHP) in Sierra Leone by the west African...
Sierra Leone: Ban on lucrative logging industry
The Sierra Leone forestry guard has warned of impending environmental hazards following the indiscriminate deforestation practices in the country. This warning has forced...
Charles Taylor the man who ‘forgot’ he killed thousands
Charles McArthur Ghankay Taylor, the former President of Liberia is the first Head of State currently on trial at the International Criminal Court in...
Sierra Leoneans scorn initiative to enlist youths into police force
The government of Sierra Leone has moved to include youths in its law enforcement sector to boost the efforts of the police in their...
Africa-Asia cooperation goes medical: Sierra Leone goes online with India
The ongoing process by which regional economies, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a globe-spanning network of communication and exchange, is taking a...
Sierra Leone: UN-backed Court Closed after administering Civil War justice
Leaders of the major warring faction during the Sierra Leonean civil war have been handed lengthy jail sentences, bringing a seven year trial of...
Six African countries fare worst on The Global Hunger Index
Ethiopia, Eritrea, DRC, Sierra Leone, Burundi and Chad are categorised as being in a state of extremely alarming levels of hunger in the newly...
The Guns are quiet as diamond-rich Sierra Leone discovers oil
The guns are quiet and the killings have stopped in Sierra Leone. After a spell of peace and the prosecution of warlords, including the...
Guinea: Military leader to attack media if …
Within the framework of the Mano River Union summit which was to take place in Conakry from 14 to 15 July, the Guinean Head...
Three charged for bloodbath to amass diamonds
Three Sierra Leoneans, Issa Sesay, Morris Kallon, and Augustine Gbao brutally assaulted and raped women, violently amputated and mutilated men, women and children in...
Sierra Leoneans flocking into Liberia raise xenophobia concerns
Reports emanating from Gendema village in Liberia claim that a throng of youths on daily basis are flocking into Liberia from Sierra Leone.
It is...
Scraps gnaw at the future of Sierra Leonean children
Most Sierra Leonians in Freetown rambling ghettos visit the city’s main rubbish dump to dig through the mounds of garbage in search of scrap...
President of Sierra Leone comes clean
President Ernest Bai Koroma has declared his assets to the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission. He becomes the first Head of state in Sierra Leone to...
Transport minister questioned over abandoned cocaine plane
The police in Sierra Leone have questioned the country's sacked Transport and Aviation Minister Kemoh Sesay over the landing in the country of a...
President sacks transport minister over mysterious plane filled with cocaine
Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has relieved Transport and Aviation Minister Ibrahim Kemoh Sesay of his duties with immediate effect.
The announcement, which came...
Severe health risks in Sierra Leone
With malaria, diarrhea and vomiting, pneumonia, bronchitis and other respiratory infections, worm infestations, scabies, abscesses, sores, and boils all common ailments in the Kroo...
Sierra Leone elections free, fair and orderly
The Acting Executive Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Sierra Leone, Mr. Michael v.d. Schulenburg, has described Saturday council polls in the country...
Sierra Leone gov’t closes opposition radio station
Sierra Leone's opposition "Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) Radio Unity FM 94.0 has unceremoniously gone off air.
The opposition Party accused the ruling All People's...
Soccer stakeholders in Sierra Leone want national congress
Football stakeholders nationwide have called on the president of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), Nahim Khadi, and his executive to immediately summon a...
Charles Taylor’s billions traced in US banks
Charles Taylor, the former head of state of Liberia, who is currently being tried in the Hague by the Special Court for Sierra Leone...
BADEA director arrives in Senegal
The director general of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA), Abdelaziz Khelef, was billed to arrive in Senegal Thursday as part...
BADEA reschedules US$9.7 million debt
The Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) has relieved the Government of Sierra Leone of a debt of about US$9.7 million in...
FIFA : Ban on Sierra Leone national stadium lifted
The world Soccer Governing body, Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) has conditionally lifted the ban on Sierra Leone's National Stadium.
According to Sierra Leone's...
BADEA assesses $43 m projects in Sierra Leone
Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa’s (BADEA) Director General Abdell Aziz Khelef is on a three-day visit to Sierra Leone primarily to assess...