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January 2013

The Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat will organise a one month nationwide post-election educational campaign from the 5th January to 5th February 2013, in Kenema the regional headquarter town of the East, Bo the

The Chairman of the Board of the Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA), Professor Harry Turay on Friday 4TH January, 2013 commissioned the modern Vehicle Examination Center, Multi-Purpose Tow Trucks and Wheel Clamps at a

The 2013-2015 Beijing Action Plan, which came out of the Fifth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (2012) held in Beijing, China  highlights the great progress that has been made in China-Africa tourism

Elections have come and gone. They have helped entrench democracy in Sierra Leone.  Thanks to active civil society groups in issues ranging from voter education to the promotion of election dialogue and initiatives to defuse

THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT IT HAS PLEASED HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR ERNEST BAI KOROMA TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING MINISTERIAL AND OTHER APPOINTMENTS: MINISTERS Ms DIANA KONOMANI - MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND RURAL

A barbecue (BBQ) get-together was organized to bid farewell to a Sierra Leonean journalist, Dan Parkinson Jnr., who was here in Sydney on a two-year postgraduate study. The Association of Sierra Leone Journalists in Exile (ASALJIE), in

For the first time in history - on New Year’s Day 2013 at Pademba Road Prison in Freetown Sierra Leone, Papay Zua, Daddy Rhymes, Fantacee and Dynce perform to prisoners When we heard about this we immediately

2012 was a remarkable year for our country. We conducted four elections on a single day that were acclaimed by the whole world as meeting international standards of free, fair, credible and transparent election; our

In the days of yore, impunity and euphemism used to be a worrying challenge for the Anti- Corruption Commission in Sierra Leone.  This is no more the case. In the last few years, we have seen

New Year statement from Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma (in photo), Chairperson of the African Union Commission In 2012, we celebrated success in a number of fields as the continent sought to achieve its common vision of

I always eagerly follow developments in my country Sierra Leone, be it political, social or otherwise, in spite of the great distance that lies between West Africa, particularly Sierra Leone, and Australia, my country of