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September 2017

Aung San Suu Kyi (in photo) led the National League for Democracy (NLD) to a majority win in Myanmar's first openly contested election in 25 years in November 2015.The win came five years to the

One night in mid-September, President Ernest Bai Koroma, now in the twilight of his presidency, invited his key lieutenants to State Lodge. Among them were some who had declared their intention to succeed him. Others,

Latest reports reaching this medium from the Sierra Leone Network of X-Asylum Seekers has confirmed that a total of 5,800 Sierra Leoneans are to be deported to the country from the United States of America,

The excitement of Sierra Leoneans to listen to divine inspirational prayers delivered by one of the spiritual leaders in the World, Mufti Ishmail Menk has left more than120 citizens including a three year old child

On Thursday, September 21, USAID Administrator Mark Green announced that the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI)—a U.S. government initiative led by USAID and implemented together with CDC—will launch new country programs in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Niger, and Sierra

Vintage Zainab Hawa Bangura, the insurance broker turned civil society activist; the UN technocrat; the former government minister; the mother- the ‘everyday  Yonibana’ woman who would gather the kids, arrange them in circles, clap, sing

With the Public Private Partnership (PPP) agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone (GoSL) and the China Railway Seventh Group (CRSG) for the Wellington – Masiaka Toll Road (WMTR), on the surface, it seems that

In what has been Sierra Leone’s worst natural catastrophe in living memory, over 500 people have died and about 3,000 rendered homeless by flooding this year. Inexplicable and unprecedented, the crisis has devastated the economy,

The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), the oldest surviving political party in Sierra Leone commenced its three- day election convention in Kenema this weekend, and reports reaching this paper describe the event as anything but

After a successful completion of this year's Muslim pilgrimage, the first batch of Sierra Leone pilgrims will depart the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia this week, that’s according to the Coordinator, Media Affairs, Sierra Leone Hajj

One of the leading telecommunication companies which has been effectively operating in Sierra Leone since 2005, Africell, has been widely commended for its improved network, style of successfully conducting business and rolling out various promotions

It is crystal clear that more strong members of the disintegrated main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) are formulating to tender their resignations as a result of the Paopa sector that have held the

One of the prominent Churches in Freetown Sierra Leone, Word of Life Gospel Church has presented millions of Leones worth donation to over seventy five (75) affected victims of the multiple disasters at the Regent

A non-Governmental Organization, Eye for Salone based in Waterloo/Newton has been hailed by indigenes within their operational areas for not only assisting visually impaired people but to also promote education among children. Speaking to this medium,

The Ministry of Youth Affairs (MOYA), has paid over Le2 Billion to both permanent and volunteer workers nationwide under the leadership of Minister Bai Mamoud Bangura. Bangura is taken to high esteem among hungry young people