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July 2012

President Ernest Bai Koroma has returned to Freetown after attending the Forty-First Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government in Yamoussoukro, Cote D’Ivoire.  (Photo: ECOWAS leaders) In his welcome address, the

Now that the European Championship is finally over, and Spain has shown the rest of Europe how to kick the ball around, the usual managerial merry-go-round can begin in earnest. But with that come the

International Criminal Court turns ten - On 1 July 2002, the first three staff members of the International Criminal Court (ICC) entered the ICC’s building in The Hague, the Netherlands. On that day, the ICC’s

As a way of enhancing effective service delivery in the Free Health Care programme, the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has engaged health workers in Makeni.  (Photo: Cross section of the audience) This was in the form of

President Ernest Bai Koroma has not only succeeded in impressing his supporters, party loyalists and the international community, but even those who were at some point his political opponents, who have not only declared their

A crumbling old slave fort in Sierra Leone is challenging long-held assumptions about African-American ancestry and could threaten Ghana's domination of African American tourism to the continent, writes freelance journalist Paige McClanahan in this article

Sierra Leone’s emerging young leader, and founder of MESSEH INTERNATIONAL, Messeh Kamara, aged 25, has been invited by the President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to contribute to the 2012 ECOSOC

On Monday, June 18, 2012, the American Red Cross in partnership with Special People In Northeast Inc. (SPIN Inc), proudly honored Direct Support Professional, Dauda Kamara, as he received the distinguished Certificate of Merit, signed

The constituents of the Junior and Senior Secondary Schools in Port Loko Town have on Tuesday June 19, 2012 pledged to uphold the best kinds of attitudes and behaviours so that they can rapidly improve

Addis Ababa, 28th June 2012: A Delegation from H.R.H. the Prime Minister Court, Kingdom of Bahrain, headed by H.E. Shaikh Hussam Bin Essa AL Khalifa, President of H.R.H. the Prime Minister Court, in response to

At what was marking the close of the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat’s tour of communities and institutions within the Northern Region of Sierra Leone quite recently, the Port Loko Prisons, as compared to

Chairlady of the All People's Congress (APC) United Kingdom/Northern Ireland has declared that ‘now is the time to rally behind President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma’, especially with elections just around the corner. Kumba Momoh (in photo)

On Saturday 30th June, Freetown’s magnificent Parade Ground, off Circular Road, will showcase the most exciting young footballers in Sierra Leone as teams from across the country compete for the Craig Bellamy Foundation National Youth

At a welcoming ceremony of the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in 1995, held in Beijing, Jiang Zemin, then Chinese President said, “we attach great importance to the development and achievement of women,

It has come to the notice of this reporter that the minister of state south who is referred to as the resident minister Hon. Moijueh Kai Kai (in photo) has taken over the southern part