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October 2012

Freetown, Friday October 19 – To mark World Sight Day 2012, Standard Chartered Sierra Leone has donated comfortable chairs to the Western Area Eye Clinic to facilitate the sitting of in-patients, and members of the

The African Union Commission has announced that it will deploy a total of 40 Election Observers to observe Sierra Leone’s tripartite elections scheduled for 17th November 2012 which the incumbent His Excellency President Ernest Bai

Kenema City, Sierra Leone – 19th October 2012, Maada Bio, the SLPP opposition flagbearer is trying his luck with Kenema today with a rally after a very poor performance in Pujehun two days ago.  According

The slum communities have a rugged history with poverty shading a portion growth of life and existence in their inhabitants. This is what a visit at Susan’s Bay wharf would portray. A special dreg of

United States Ambassador Michael S. Owen and  British High Commissioner Ian Hughes have in a joint press conference on Tuesday 16th, sermonized people of this nation to demonstrate political maturity and democratic values by exercising

NEW YORK, 17 October 2012 – Newly appointed Special Representative of the Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (SRSG) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) and current Director General of the UN

Reports reveal that the Sierra Leone Retired National Football Heroes team will soon resume training sessions in preparation for the regional veteran football competition to be hosted in Senegal.  (Photo: Sierra Leone Retired National Football Heroes

The Evangelical Fellowship of Sierra Leone (EFSL) has donated assorted drugs to the Grafton community in a bid to combat the cholera that has plagued the country recently. Handing over the items to the Grafton community

The public is hereby informed that the unwarranted and unlawful obstruction of the presidential motorcade by the SLPP presidential candidate Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio demonstrated total disregard for constituted authority and the rule of

The home based delegation of the national team, Leone Stars, on Tuesday 16th October 2012 arrived in Freetown after being eliminated by their Tunisian counterpart over the weekend in the qualifying round of the South

The Board, Management, and Staff of the Disabled International Foundation-Sierra Leone (DIF-SIL) express their sincere gratitude and unreserved appreciation to His Excellency, the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma and the Government of the Republic of

16th October, 2012 - The Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) is concerned that a number of institutions and agencies have organised events including but not limited to signing of  declarations, manifestos,  trainings and communiqués  without due

In a bid to mitigate climate change effects and to also respond to disaster management, the Government of Japan has handed over vehicles and earth moving equipments for disaster management to the Ministry of Energy

ACCRA, Ghana, October 18, 2012/ -- Airtel Africa (http://www.airtel.com) today celebrated the emergence of the talented young soccer star - Priscilla Okyere - who played a critical role in Ghana’s success at the just concluded

The Director of Crime Investigation Services (CIS), Dowu Donald Buck, is said to have been in a suspiciously close relationship with a certain Alusine Mansaray aka  Majeh–Majeh who is claiming to be a personnel working