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July 2011

Rodney Strasser has completed a loan move to Serie A side Lecce. The AC Milan youngster Rodney Strasser was officially unveiled by his new side with a Lecce colours display in their website. A statement on

I had stopped at the Total Filling station at the junction of Wilkinson Road and Murray Town junction on Wednesday morning; as I waited to be served a news vendor came up to my vehicle

Addis Ababa, 15 July 2011 - In what could be described as a major boost to the Commission’s quest to secure adequate, reliable and predictable financing for the activities of the African Union, the Commissioner

July 16, 2011 was a night to remember at Mirage Hall, University Boulevard in Maryland where alumina and friends of Old Kolenten Secondary School converged to celebrate and raise funds for the construction of a

Festival Bana y’Afrique is a free outdoor celebration of African music and culture for the whole family to enjoy. This year, the 12th annual African festival. Festival Bana y’Afrique 2011 features a main concert stage with

Mogadishu, 20 July 2011- On a visit to Mogadishu, Somalia, the African Union High Representative for Somalia, H.E Jerry Rawlings has appealed to the International Community to come to the aid of the country’s people

Change can be effected by what we do and what we omit to do, that should have been done.  There are times when the omissions come back to haunt us, just as much as things

Registration for Airtel Rising Stars - a program supported by one of the world’s leading soccer teams, Manchester United is now on.  Airtel Rising stars, is an ambitious Pan African soccer talent programme that will

As part of its Public Education drive to all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Tuesday 19th July 2011 held an institutional sensitization meeting with staff of the Ministry

New Forest Green Rovers midfielder Alhassan Bangura is set to miss the start of the new season after suffering a knee injury in training. The 23-year-old Sierra Leonean, who joined Rovers at the start of the

At least 37 soldiers have been arrested in Guinea following the attack on President Alpha Conde's home, officials say.  (Photo: Alpha Conde) The detained soldiers include high-ranking officers who were close to Guinea's former military junta,

Former President of the ECOWAS Commission and now Secretary General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, Dr. Muhammad Ibn Chambas, on Wednesday expressed his deepest condolence to the people of Sierra

The nightmare is over; at last we all can now breathe a great sigh of relief. The Supreme Court, the country’s highest legal decision body has given its final verdict on a matter that had

The National Youth Coalition (NYC) headed by colleague Al-Sankoh Conteh, is no doubt moving away from its original focus and now being nearly political.  (Photo: author) The main reason why the NYC was founded was to

In a bid to address water and sanitation problems in three cities of over a million and half, the Ministry of Energy and Water Resources in partnership with the Sierra Leone Water Company and donor