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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.
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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...
Benin-Liberia-Sierra Leone: WHO aims to vaccinate 12 million
The world’s largest mass yellow fever immunization is starting in West Africa, targeting 12 million people, writes Times Live. World Health Organization will begin...
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...
Sierra Leone: Police enlists youth volunteers
Sierra Leone has launched an initiative to enlist youths as crime-fighting volunteers in Freetown. Police chief Chris Charley said the capital, which is being...
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...
Sierra Leone: 52 years in prison for rebel leaders
The UN backed tribunal has upheld sentences of up to 52 years in prison to three men who were rebel leaders during the country’s...
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...
Women journalists in Sierra Leone attacked and forced to march through streets naked for tackling sensitive issue
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Wednesday strongly condemned the humiliating and degrading treatment suffered by four female journalists who were stripped naked in...
Pirates killed and others arrested by Sierra Leonean navy
Four Guineans died while five others, including a Sierra Leonean, were arrested during a shootout in the country's (Sierra Leone) waters, the police said...
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...
Football : Sierra Leone sports council demands dissolution of FA executive committee
Key football stakeholders have written to Sierra Leone's National Sports Council to ask for the dissolution of the current executive committee of the Sierra...
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 to probe former corrupt government officials
President Ernest Bai Koroma has set up a commission to probe former ministers and senior officials of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) government...