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January 2010

Fellow Sierra Leoneans: Within the last several months, the name Brima Michael Turay or BMT, in the North America branch of the APC and indeed amongst Sierra Leoneans around the world, meant different things to

The operational site of the $3 Billion Dollar strong African Minerals Limited (AML) - Ferenbgeya in the forested hills of Bumbuna in the Tonkolili District became the centre nerve of the country as the crème-de-la-crème

A senior editor of a Saudi Arabian press has said that his medium would help to publicize Sierra Leone's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, H.E. Wusu Munu's call for potential investors to go to Sierra Leone

Minister of Mineral Resources and Political Affairs Hon. Alpha Kanu last Friday admitted in public to being guilty of lying to cover up on certain issues in the execution of state duties, a confession which

President Koroma Makes a Good Will Gesture Following the earthquake crisis in Haiti, Sierra Leonean leader Ernest Bai Koroma has donated the sum of $100,000 dollars to earthquake victims. Giving the contribution to the United Nations

The Biological parents of acclaimed illegally adopted children facilitated by Help a Needy Children International HANCI during the heat of civil war in 1997 to 1999 have accused the Criminal Investigative Department of the Sierra

Duncan Coplan, Chief Campaigner of the Environmental Justice Foundation, has revealed that Sierra Leone is loses over twenty-nine million US dollars annually as a result of illicit fishing activities going on in the territorial waters.

The Director of the Sierra Leone Prisons service Mr. Moses Showers speaking to the Sierra Express Media on the 22nd January 2010, told this press about his recent visit to Barbados in order to have

It is certainly very difficult to argue the extent of the success of Ernest Koroma’s Administration in the various areas of need for the past two years even though some other areas are undoubtedly seeing

The legal and land administration system is yet to transform traditional land ownership system by developing legally protected and commercially tradable interest in land. Extension of freehold interest in land as pertains in the western

President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma remains a popular political figure in Sierra Leone, according to a recent independent research. This is as a result of his commitment, style of leadership and above all putting words into

The second edition of the SIERRA Update news magazine published by the Information Unit of the Sierra Leone High Commission in London is currently out.  The Publisher, Information Attaché at the London High Commission, Sorie Sudan

President Ernest Bai Koroma yesterday Friday 22nd January 2010 formally commissioned the operations of African Minerals Limited for the mining of the multi-billion-tonne iron ore deposits in Tonkolili, northern Sierra Leone.  Addressing hundreds of attendees,

The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, will present the economic outlook for West Africa in 2010 to the region’s development partners during the 7th edition of the ECOWAS-Development Partners coordination meeting

Six Ambassadors on Tuesday, 19th January 2010 presented their letters of credence in Abuja to the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Mohamed Ibn Chambas, as permanent representatives of their countries to ECOWAS. (Photo: HE Henry