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November 2009

The National Commission for Social Action, NaCSA, has received up to 25 million dollars as financial support to continue its mandate and work. The money is part of the recently released World Bank funding given out

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Honourable Zainab Hawa Bangura has taken time off politics to have time with religion as she heads to the Holy city of Mecca to perform this

Sierra Leone is a country that witnessed over a decade long civil war. This civil war saw the destruction of lives and property. Thousands of innocent people were killed and hundreds maimed. Some say, the

The incident took place before the most destructive rebel war in this country’s history. A group of Peace Corps volunteers stationed in Bo summoned the police to their residence because their Land Rover which was

The 63rd Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers which opened  Friday, 20th November 2009 at the ECOWAS  Commission in Abuja to consider various measures for  improving the effectiveness of the ECOWAS Commission and

The Third Committee of Experts of the General Assembly today (Tuesday 24th November 2009) concluded its work on the 64th Session of the General Assembly in Committee Room 1 in the United Nations headquarters in

The Members and supporters of APC Massachusetts headed by the undisputable, charismatic and able President Comrade Abdul Sesay were filled with emotion and tears of joy when the Interim Chairman Mr. Leslie Allen pronounced those

Three Cabinet Ministers, one Deputy Minister in the Ernest Bai Koroma-led APC government and one former Minister are currently in the Holy land of Mecca to perform this year's Muslim Pilgrimage, "Hajj." Foreign Affairs and International

It came as a bombshell as it was intended to be. “It was only after the Libyan Leader Colonel Gadaffi had revealed it at the national stadium that the people Sierra Leone learnt for the

Regular elections, transparency and an open government are just some of the major yardsticks to democratic credentials.  Over the years, African states have not been able to see the concept of democracy and good governance

Chairman ECOWAS Council of Ministers, Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chief Ojo Maduekwe CFR has on behalf of the Council of ECOWAS Ministers, congratulated ECOWAS Commission President Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas on his new appointment as

The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly that deals with Humanitarian, Cultural and Human Rights issues today adopted a resolution facilitated by the Sierra Leone delegation on behalf of Africa in Conference Room

Nurses attached to the UBC Mission Hospital in Mattru Jong, Bonthe District have gone on strike demanding that their eighteen month backlog salary should be paid or they will not work, Sierra Express Media has

“2012, 12 0’clock sharp, APC out SLPP in”- these are a few of the expressions that are circulating among the Sierra Leone GOP which I find very interesting, but the question I will always put