a
Your trusted place for Sierra Leone and global news
Home2016March (Page 2)

March 2016

Sierra Leone's Director-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Ambassador Kadijatu Bassir on Monday, 21st March, 2016, arrived in Beijing, for the China–Africa Development Cooperation for Child Health, together with an official from the

"Excellent infrastructure is the backbone and chief driver of socio-economic development, which every country strives to achieve," says Sierra Leone's President.   (Photo: Kamakay bridge under construction in Sella Limba) Propelled by this statement, AMR Gold has

It was in November 2015 the Niawa Chiefdom Development Organization (NCDO) was formed with the aim of sustaining peace and unity in their chiefdom, and to ensure that through their little inputs and other good-will

opens up on South-South Cooperation, Post Ebola Recovery and Capacity Building in the Health Sector  Sierra Leone is recovering from the impact of the Ebola Virus Disease outbreak which struck in mid 2014. Before Ebola, the

Post-Ebola Recovery & Transition Programme March 19 (SLENA) - The first phase of President Koroma’s Post-Ebola Recovery and Transition Programme will end March 31 followed by the second phase of 10-24 months which is expected to

Freetown, Mar. 18, 016 (MOHS) - The Ministry of Health and Sanitation has hosted eleven Nigerian Medical Personnel specialized in different skills to be deployed in different districts in the country two years.  (Group photo

Good governance ensures equal participation of citizens, in the exercise of the state’s powers and responsibilities and in its management of political, social, and economic affairs, argued Laura McGrew, ET EL, in a work titled

The Ansumana Usman Koroma-AUK Trophy has just ended in the East end of Freetown bringing more than five hundred youth from different constituencies within a unified atmosphere, allowing these youth to showcase their individual talents

(CNS): I met Lucy in Khayelishta (near Cape Town) on the bright sunny morning of 4th December 2015 - just two days after she had celebrated the 10th birthday of her lovely daughter.  A cured

Hon. Ibrahim Parteh Bah of Constituency 092 in the Western Rural Area has hinted on infrastructure development when contributing to debate in Parliament on the loan agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone and Saudi

Workers of maritime construction company called Class Doffing have lauded Commissioner Foday Musa and team for their proactive measure in finding solution to their 16 month battle to get their 3 month backlog and redundant

The Headman of Gloucester Village, Mr. William Bockarie Kallon, has been detained at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Freetown for alleged shady land deal. Sources alleged that since his election as Headman of Gloucester Village,

Eighteen (18) passengers in a commercial vehicle (Poda-Poda) on Wednesday March 16th, 2016 perished at Rogbangba Junction when a truck loaded with heavy machines lost one of its wheels and eventually ran the passenger vehicle. The

- Commission on the Status of Women agrees United Nations member states, civil society and business leaders attending the 60th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York have agreed that

Preparatory Senior Officials' Meeting of the Sixth Session of the Tokyo International Conference on Africa's Development (TICAD VI) was formally opened in the East African State of Djibouti Monday, 14th March, 2016.  (Photo:  Amb. Kargbo