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August 2010

African Minerals Limited (AML) has been exploring the Tonkolili deposit in the Sula Mountain range in Sierra Leone for the last seven years and in 2009 confirmed the presence of a world-class magnetite iron ore

The former President of Ireland and also former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mary Robinson has said in Freetown that she is very impressed towards the implementation of the free health

British Minister for International Development, Stephen O’Brien MP (in photo), arrived in Sierra Leone on Thursday 29th July 2010 in the first visit to Sierra Leone by a member of the new United Kingdom coalition

He dreams to create his own style, walk his own path and become one of the greatest Sierra Leonean artists ever. Inspired by a determination to succeed, Soufian Kamara aka Souferior is working hard to release

Mrs. Mariama Jalloh, proprietor of Gical and Mabite Ltd., today, August 2, 2010, in a formal handing over ceremony of the refurbished Customs House of the Customs and Excise Department of the National Revenue Authority

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The defense in the war crimes trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is seeking to postpone testimony this week by supermodel Naomi Campbell, a motion released Monday shows. Campbell has been

The Sierra Leone Nationals' Union (SLNU) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia over the weekend elected its President in a ''free and fair'' election conducted at the Chancery building of the Sierra Leone Embassy in

How are the Millennium Development Goals playing out across Africa? In the first of a series assessing their impact, we asked the talented blind musician Sorie Kondi to travel around Sierra Leone to find out

Well, I was the guest on David Tam-Baryoh’s weekend radio programme which carries the misnomer of “Monologue.” As a matter of fact having previously listened to a couple of the programmes in the past, I

The Chairman of the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party says his party considers youth unemployment in Sierra Leone as not only a human development issue, but also a matter with some security implications. John Oponjo

Sierra Leone’s 50th Independence Anniversary Committee headed by Dr. Williams Conteh, on Thursday, 29th July concluded their Northern Region tour to raise awareness on the country’s golden jubilee celebration next year. The tour which started in

Bo School campus in Bo city was the centre of attraction on Tuesday, July 27 as more than one thousand youth nationwide converged to exchange ideas in what could be described as a leadership training

According to the daily findings of this reporter, it is now common to see Waterloo ‘Poda-Poda’ drivers in the dishonest habit of stopping half-way. Countless number of times this reporter has been engaged in a

Wealth Builders Network, a micro finance institution that was alleged sometime back to have been in operation in the country with no proper documents and collateral, information reaching this press indicates that their West Africa

Sierra Leone since independence can only boast of few achievements whilst some of her neighbours like Guinea and Liberia continue to push ahead of us in the development process. Before the war, Liberia was far