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August 2015

The near end of Ebola is not good news for a lot of people who have made fortune out of the dreaded Ebola killer viral epidemic. The survival of these people has been endangered by

Apparently, the Government of Sierra Leone has lost the war against street trading, otherwise, Abacha Street, would not have been overflowing with traders who have transformed the main street into a permanent market place from

Although political observers have often classed Sierra Leone as a country of corruption and administrative ineptitude, leaving out the most heinous crime, that of tailoring the process of transfer of leadership from one Head of

The District Traffic Officer (DTO) of Eastern Police Divisional Head Quarters has disclosed that the just concluded Operation Road Safety was a success story. While making the disclosure to journalists in his office on Wednesday, August

The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC), reported that Makeni police are investigating one Momoh Turay who is said to have used a very sharp cutlass to slaughter his biological father due to malice over food

Chief Executive Officer of the National Ebola Response Centre (NERC), Retired Major Paolo Conteh (in photo), has sent a strict warning to all secret society leaders in the country to be conscious that Ebola virus

Freetown, Tuesday 10 August 2015: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have kick-started a 12-months post-Ebola project for 800 Ebola burial team and

Following the recent heavy storms in Kabala town, Koinadugu District which destroyed about 76 houses and the oldest primary school in the Kabala Township, the Sustainable Empowerment for the People of Koinadugu (STEP-K) has donated

Freetown, Aug. 12, 015 (MOHS) - Minister of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Abu Bakarr Fofanah has said that the newly launched Service Level Agreement (SLA) by President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma would ensure equitable services

The Confederate flag, a Civil War –era banner was removed entirely from the South Carolina Statehouse, recently. It followed the death of nine black church members at the hands of Dylann Roof, a white man

One of the Commissioners of the Independent Media Commission (IMC), Alhaji Dauda Musa Bangura on Tuesday 11th August, 2015 received an award from the Sierra Leone Children’s Aid Foundation (SLCAF) for being the Best Child

CONAKRY/FREETOWN/MONROVIA, 12 August 2015 – As students in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone begin their summer vacations, measures put in place to protect them from the Ebola virus are being credited with having helped keep classrooms

Freetown, August 11 (SLENA) - A delegation of investors from the Peoples Republic of China on Monday this week called on the Vice President, Ambassador Victor Bockarie Foh at his Tower Hill office in Freetown

As Sierra Leone is about to celebrate its 55 years Public Health Act Birthday for a structural reform, the birth of 225 Public Health Aids formerly Sanitary Inspectors have been given upgraded training to the

Last week, the Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Victor Bockarie Foh led a high-profile delegation to the Arab Republic of Egypt for the official launching of the over $ 8-billion New Suez