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August 2011

Sierra Leone Arc of Hope Board Members, Dr. John Sandy and Mr. Daniel Koroma attended a White House meeting on African Immigration to help shape policy on Immigration Reform specific to Africans living in the

Lucrative criminal industries on the coast of Sierra Leone are being smashed by the country's burgeoning army, thanks to support from British personnel. (Photo: Maritime training wing members of the Royal Navy instruct the Sierra Leone

AML Freetown, August 11, 2011 (1500 GMT) - With great regret African Minerals (“AML”) confirms that a fatal motor vehicle accident has occurred in the vicinity of its Tonkolili project in Sierra Leone involving a

After Sierra Express Media's editor breaking the news yesterday  ' Sierra Leone’s Social Welfare Minister Sacked,'  State House has this morning issued a press release confirming same, however,  no replacement has been announced at this

AP Moller-Maersk will move its Maersk Deliverer semi-submersible rig between three oil companies off the West African coast under a new deal, one of the companies has announced.  (Photo: Deliverer: The Maersk semi-submersible will move

MINK Makeup Agency and Makeup School provided all of the makeup seen on the catwalk at this year’s Africa Fashion Week London (AFWL) event. MINK partnered with ELLIS FAAS, who provided most of the makeup used

Once every few years, the world goes through a familiar ritual: various factors converge to trigger unusual increases in global food prices. In response, countries rush through emergency measures to ward off widespread shortages. Prices

With a roaring cheer the people of South Sudan welcomed the newest nation in the world on July 9. Couples embraced and men cried as the new national anthem was sung for the first time

The newly appointed Regional Manager – South of the Anti- Corruption Commission has on Tuesday 9th August 2011 met with key stakeholders and alliance partners in the Southern Region during the Provincial Security Committee (PROSEC)

University students at Sierra Leone's respected Fourah Bay College were unable to take their final exams because of a lack of paper.  (Photo: Fourah Bay College, founded in 1827, charges students between $200 and $800

The Radiation Protection Board Secretariat has completed a pre-authorization inspection of Medical facilities in the Bo and Kenema Government Hospitals.  The inspection is part of the ongoing sensitization programme to create awareness about the use

Freetown, August 12, 2011 - The United States Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Michael S. Owen, today paid a courtesy call on the Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) at the organisation’s new headquarters

That was the question asked by a Charles Macrae in the for-di-people newspaper publication of Thursday August 11. I have researched the question and here are some of the facts that came up and which

Keynote address by Hon. Claude M Kamanda at the opening of a two-day training of radio broadcast technicians for Western urban and rural areas at Jabex Hall, Waterloo on August 11th, 2011. COURTESIES, Chair, permit me on

It has been confirmed by a State House source that the Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Dr. Dennis Sandy, has been sacked. The sacking of Minister Sandy, we are told, came as a