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May 2011

The Swedish Allsvenkan will continue this weekend and one of the talking points amongst soccer pundits and fans is the fact Sierra Leonean AIK’s striker Ibrahim Tetteh Bangura (in photo) will be out of the

Chairperson of the month : South Africa 1.     Tuesday 3  May 2011, 10:00 a.m. CR. Informal briefing by South Africa’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York, on issues of mutual interest between the AU Peace

50th ANNIVERSARY OF SIERRA LEONE’S INDEPENDENCE THE SIERRA LEONE – IRELAND COMMEMORATION COMMITTEE Invites you to join the CELEBRATIONS at Multi-Faith Service and Reception on Friday 20th May 2011 Service at 6.30 p.m Reception 7.00 p.m ‘til late in Wynn’s Hotel, Abbey Street,

As per the request of the Ministry of Finance in Sierra Leone, Parliament has recently granted the withdrawal of Le548 billion from the Consolidated Fund of the country. There is a high level of debt

At long last, the old imperial measurement is giving way to the metric system. I look back with nostalgia on the old system, when Peter Clarke then a medical undergraduate student at Oxford ran the

Sierra Leonean midfield maestro, Mustapha Hadji Bangura accounted for Apollon’s first goal in the 77th minute to help his side qualify for the second year running for the Cyprus Coca Cola Cup Final slated for May

Sierra Leone’s national team captain, Ibrahim Obreh Kargbo’s FC Baku side in Azerbaijan lost the chance to reach the final of the Azerbaijan Cup this year despite winning the second leg 2-1 against Khazar Lankaran

To tackle Cote d’Ivoire’s intractable problems after the demise of Gbagbo’s regime, security sector reform, reconciliation, resettlement and development must work in tandem The demise of Laurent Gbagbo’s regime offers fresh opportunities to tackle

The news that Osama Bin Laden had been killed has been greeted with many views, emotions, commentaries, jubilation, relief and scepticism, all in equal measure. This is more so for the families of those who

Public health analysts expressed doubt Monday (April 25) that eradicating malaria is an attainable goal, saying the difficulty of doing so may put that out of reach despite the global effort now under way. (Photo: Panelist

The Embassy of the Republic of Sierra Leone in Saudi Arabia in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Nationals’ Union, (SLNU) on Thursday, 28th April, 2011, kicked off in grand style a two-day program to commemorate

The President of the APC Washington, DC Metropolitan Chapter, Madam Yabom Thaslim Koroma and entourage met with President Koroma at State House on Tuesday May 3, 2011.   Present at this august meeting with the president

Sierra Leone woke up to the sudden death of a hero on Friday April 29, 2011. What a shocking piece of news fell on the ears of the nation on that day. The late Honourable Minister

African Minerals (AML) has expressed renewed hopes for a revised arrangement with Chinese steel company Shandong Iron & Steel Group (SISG) following a recent proposed US$1.5 billion investment in the flagship Tonkolili iron ore project

01 May 2011, Khartoum - Jointly organized by the Department of Rural Economy And Agriculture of the African Union Commission (AUC) and the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), the inaugural session of the Steering