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April 2011

The Minister of Health, Zainab Bangura (in photo), has been framed by doctors as seemingly diminishing efforts of government in the implementation of the existing ‘free health care’ for Sierra Leoneans countrywide. Just recently, the Minister,

The Minister of Information and Communication, Alhaji I.B. Kargbo (in photo) who doubles as government spokesman has given an update of developments in the first quarter of this year and other events involving Sierra Leone’s

The Ross Road Police Station Thursday 31st lined up hooligans believed to have inflicted stab wounds on the back of Sierra Leone’s musical lyric, Hassan Kamara aka Timaya of Black Leo fame. Timaya was ganged up

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Thursday, 31st March 2011 happened to be the last press briefing for that month. It was chaired by the Deputy Minister of Information, Shaka Tarawalie and was very much to the task. The host minister, Alhaji

The Minister of Information and Communication, Alhaji Ibrahim Ben Kargbo has told journalists about President Koroma’s disgust over the sale of GSM SIM Cards to street vendors. The Minister made this disclosure during the usual press

A Rwandan government programme to destroy all thatched roofs in the country is leaving thousands of Batwa ‘Pygmies’ homeless.  (Photo: A family stand amidst the ruins of their home © COPORWA/ Survival) Hundreds of Batwa families

President Ernest Bai Koroma today commissioned the Ernest Bai Koroma Mini Stadium named after him in Constituency 95, being represented by Hon. Claude Kamanda in Newton, Koya Rural via Waterloo. Welcoming the President and his delegation

Kenema: The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists over the weekend ended 18th Biennial Conference in Kenema, Eastern Sierra Leone, the first in over 5 years.  The 2-day conference brought together over 400 journalists from across

It has reached desks of Sierra Express Media that musicians have voluntarily made statements to the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) exposing Mayor Herbert Williams’ corruption attachment. Twenty Sierra Leonean musicians in 2010, performed at the Morgan

“My forefathers have ruled Biriwa Chiefdom.” By the aforementioned quote, it is clear though that Chief Alpha Madseray Sheriff is unhappy with recent happenings befalling him. In his path, he told Sierra Express Media that he

“When beggars die there are no comments seen, the heavens blaze forth the death of a Princess”, so said Shakespeare. The world all over, people get sick and die when their time is up. Not even the

The president of Fambul Tok International says there are a lot of good things the whole world would learn from Sierra Leone, a country once torn apart by civil war for eleven years. Libby

Mohamed Bangura alias Poborsky has critised the positioning of certain players in the Leone Stars team against Niger last weekend in Niamey in a 2012 African Cup of Nations group G qualifying match.  (Photo: Bangura

The Automated System for Customs Data, (ASYCUDA), has today clocked its first anniversary, since it was introduced on the 1st of April, 2010 in Sierra Leone by the Customs and Excise Department, one of the