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June 2011

A Lebanese trading company known as BENCO has admitted importing tons of iron rods from the city of Abidjan in April at a time civilian movement was restricted due to heavy fighting between forces of

SOS for Mayor Herbert George Williams! The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of a great country known as Freetown City Council has been reported missing in action early this year. According to information captured by the powerful

Some councilors in the Freetown municipality (choosing to be anonymous for now) fear that, Mayor Herbert George Williams (in photo) may soon be scooped into a financial mess. These councilors made apparent their fear bound on

We are happy at the outcome of the case brought against the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) by discharged soldiers who had taken offence at being referred to as chronically ill and mentally

Mr. Idiot had a hermit of the white elephant phenomenon on the Bumbuna noise making but when he told his good old friend the Searching man that nothing is real about its working existence, he

The Land and Property Division of the High Court of Sierra Leone has issued a ban sanctioning the Minister of Lands, his Deputy Minister, Permanent Secretary and the Director of Surveys to desist trespassing land

The Bai Bureh Community Hospital in Mahera Lungi last week received Le 90 million from the West African Health Organization in Uganda to cause the rehabilitation of the hospital. At a ceremony held at the premises

Nairobi, June 29th, 2011; The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Boubacar Gaoussou Diarra has welcomed and offered his congratulations and best wishes to H.E. Abdiweli Mohammed

Sierra Leone’s Finance and Development Minister, Dr. Samura Kamara (in photo) , has joined 56 of his counterparts in Saudi Arabia’s commercial capital, Jeddah to attend a high-profile Islamic Development Bank (IDB) meeting. The four-day economic

Since they assumed office in September 2007, thanks to Christiana Thorpe, Victor Angelo and others, the ruling APC have always endeavored to expose the SLPP to ridicule. One of their first gaffes was a public

Liberia, just as Ivory Coast’s capital, Abidjan was referred to as ‘Petite Paris,’ so was this country, the land of sweet liberty considered to be ‘Little America.’ It has seen the good and the worse

Alimamy Bangura, a rice farmer in Makeni, eastern Sierra Leone, is unlikely to read the 2011 Economic Report on Africa written by experts of the African Union (AU) and the UN Economic Commission for Africa

Bellamy makes a point to some of the boys at his academy (Photo courtesy of Craig Bellamy Foundation) Craig Bellamy hopes to create opportunities for girls in Sierra Leone by welcoming them into his academy. The Wales

I have been readily informed by at least five people that at sometime, about one year ago, a cheque in an amount of approximately $500,000 or more was given by the government of Sierra Leone

New York, 27 June 2011—As this year’s FIFA Women's World Cup starts in Germany, Brazilian football star, Marta Vieira da Silva, is delivering the message that we all win when women play leading roles not