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November 2010

The perspective often missing in the debate regarding female genital mutilation (FGM), a harmful traditional practice involving the partial or total removal of the external female genitals, is the voice of African youth. My recent

This article will cover stealing committed by officers working in the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) and the Ministry of Justice of Sierra Leone. While most Sierra Leoneans expect ACC and the Ministry of Justice

Fredrikstad star player, Celso Borges (in photo) on Thursday night scored a hat-trick as his side was promoted to the Norwegian big league for next season defeating Honefoss 8-1 on aggregate to qualify. Talking to journalists,

Sierra Leonean defender Umaru Zangalay will be kicking his teeth as his Honefoss side was relegated with humiliation at Fredrikstad in the qualification for the Tippeligaen next season. (Photo: Umaru Zangalay Bangura) With a hat-trick from

Travelling around the city of Harbin in China, seeing development at its highest level made me to remember my darling Sierra Leone. I left Harbin July 2009 and came back September this year,

The front page of The Exclusive of November 24, 2010 has this bold headline: “We Must Be United – President Koroma says”. (There was the usual pop-star-like photograph of the full-bodied white-haired bespectacled majestic-looking President

The National HIV and AIDS Secretariat has together with development partners worked out modalities to ensure that Sierra Leoneans come out in their numbers to take the HIV test on from 26th November 2010 as

Confederation of African Football, (CAF) has agreed to investigate claims about the gender of some players at the recent African Women's Championship.  (Photo: Equatorial Guinea team) Nigeria’s official complaint following players from Equatorial Guinea has

The West African Medical Center (WAMC), an NGO under the Global Health Foundation in the United States that will make a difference in Sierra Leone and the West African region is sensitizing  Sierra Leoneans locally

One of Sierra Leone’s well exposed sport Journalists exported to the United Kingdom, Alie Ahmed Bittar, believes the new set of Sierra Leonean players need more exposure to be able to compete favourably against the

The government is breaking its own rules on exploiting resources - WHEN Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war ended in 2002, the remote areas where that diamond-fuelled conflict originated had become a blasted wasteland of ruined

Some of the most important aspects of leadership include integrity, honesty and truth. Ernest Koroma and his APC followers have tried hard to sell EBK as honest and truthful. Most Sierra Leoneans believed him especially

Tuesday 23rd was a ‘black day’ for staff of the National Revenue Authority (NRA) when three of their colleague workers were frog matched to CID headquarters to answer to questions relating to police investigation of

As Xmas approaches, armed robbers have reportedly gone on rampage, attacking and ransacking homes of persons at Western Area and Western Rural District respectively. Investigations conducted disclose how in two weeks the police have sent nine

Findings carried out state how Sierra Leone loses a whooping $150 million on illicit fishing activities annually. Sources say officials of Fisheries Ministry connived with illicit fishermen in the absolute evasion of payment of taxes as