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November 2014

Freetown, Nov. 6 (SLENA) - Parliament last week unanimously adopted the minimum wage statutory instrument for the private sector with respect to an increase in the minimum wage which was laid before the well of

Freetown, Nov. 6 (SLENA) - The Sierra Leone Ex-Servicemen Association past Friday decorated the Hon. Vice President, Alhaji Chief Sam-Sumana in commemoration of the annual International Poppy Day at his Tower Hill office in Freetown.

Sierra Leone’s envoy to Saudi Arabia has on Wednesday, 5th November, 2014 told a joint resource mobilization conference for controlling Ebola about the efforts his Government had undertaken to eradicate the epidemic. Speaking at the conference

The Ebola epidemic starts today in peculiar relationship to the public which supports it. On the one hand, it must satisfy the requirements of truth which is presumably the desire of the supporting public to

Old Prince Waleans Association - USA, Washington Metropolitan Chapter is holding its Annual Dinner and Dance on Saturday, November 8th, 2014. Time: from 8:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Where: Ukrainian Hall, 15100 New Hampshire Avenue, Silver Spring,

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Brussels Airlines, has warned governments of the three most Ebola affected countries in the Mano River Union basin in West Africa, to ensure strict medical and prevention adherence in

Sierra Leone, through her Ambassador in South Korea, was one of the 29 African Countries that recently participated in the 7th Korea-Africa Business Forum that was recently staged in the Korean Capital of Seoul on

Mining Security & Crisis Management Forum | 12-13 November 2014 | Taj Hotel Cape Town, South Africa Senior level speakers from mining houses will gather to discuss the most pressing security concerns affecting the sector across the globe. Terrorism,

A new kind of protectionism is haunting the world: the spectre of Ebola protectionism. As the Ebola virus disease ravages the societies of the Mano River Union (MRU) states of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone,

Washington, DC and Accra, Ghana, November 5, 2014—IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a package of at least $450 million in commercial financing that will enable trade, investment, and employment in

President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has hailed the Minister of Lands Country Planning and the Environment Musa Tarawally for his outstanding role in containing the Ebola virus within the Moyamba District.  Musa Tarawally walking with

The President raised alarm at the Ebola statistics which shows over 4,000 people have been infected in the country; and said that especially the over 500 infection rates in Freetown, over 500 in Bombali, and

The Ebola virus has been waging a war on Sierra Leoneans since May, 2014 – just like RUF leader Foday Sankoh led his ‘rebels’ to ignite his war on the people in March, 1991, and

Freetown, Nov. 4, 014 (MOHS) - The Ministry of Health and Sanitation wishes to express its heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family and relatives of the Late Dr. Godfrey Alexandra Jonathan George, former Medical Superintendent

The Sierra Leone local tabloid, the “Trumpet” of October 16, 2014 edition has described the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Sierra Leonean born Zainab Bangura as a tough