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December 2011

The mass media today has evolved to including the Internet, that has been creating impact on the public negatively as well as positively. The social networking of the internet has been very instrumental in making

Julie Gichuru is an award-winning Kenyan television journalist rated by Forbes business magazine in 2011 as one of “20 youngest powerful women in Africa.” Ms. Gichuru (in photo) has a reputation as an engaging TV

“Kill me, kill me, you people should just kill me,” an unidentified woman begged as she was being gang raped by five men while her ordeal was filmed with one of their mobile phones. The

Mr. Conteh and Kenneth Macauley, both teachers of the Albert Academy Secondary School (AA) are reportedly in the midst of a  ‘money for admission’ scam. Francis Kamara, a former pupil of the Ansarul Muslim Secondary School, and

Human Rights Commission Sierra Leone commemorated ‘Human Rights Day’ Saturday 10th at the new YWCA hall in Freetown. The chairperson, Commissioner Yasmin Jusu Sheriff, said  that the human rights section in Sierra Leone has on a number

Pupils of Government Model Secondary School have described the attitude of their teachers as unprofessional and unpatriotic; and accuse the Education Minister of incompetence. (Photo: Minister of Education, Minkailu Bah) “Even though government boastfully says it

Again, and just as father Christmas tells of his disappointments to the smart, but senseless Idiot of a type, so also has the Holy Father (our their Lord Jesus), in a dream, sent a message

The International School, Jomo Kenyatta Road, since inception has been in the process of nurturing tomorrow's champions; training students of the school to stand as the strong pillars towards self development and development of Sierra

Freetown - The membership of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, in a general meeting on Thursday 8 December 2011, unanimously agreed to seek legal action against two members of the Presidential Bodyguards who beat

Teacher of the Makeni Comprehensive Academy Makeni, Mr. Foday Khalil Sheriff, has been convicted for corruption offences under the ACC Act 2008 by the High Court of Sierra Leone.  Delivering his verdict at the High Court

Jan de Nul was contracted by AML to re-establish a navigational channel by dredging from Pepel out along the Sierra Leone River to Freetown The channel being required to allow safe passage of Handymax Bulk carriers

Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire 9 December 2011 – The Department of Political Affairs of the African Union has provided some visibility and information materials to the African Union Observers Mission mandated by the Chairperson of the

“Our future has to be green or there will be no future, we have no plan B, we shall not give up the fight”, declared Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s prime minister while speaking to thousands of

Thank you climate change, thanks for being the factor for which Nigeria will be supported to move in direction of low carbon transport and energy efficiency. The British government listed Nigeria amongst developing nations that

The high-level African leaders who included the Africa Union’s Chairman Hon. Jean Ping, the head of the African Development bank Dr. Donald Kaberuka, Congo-Brazzavile’s minister for sustainable development, Hon. Henrie Jombo and South Africa’s minister