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June 2012

After the Bo, Bunbuna, and Wellington shooting incidents wherein innocent civilians lost their lives, the police are at it again following reports that a Delta police allegedly shot and killed a bike rider at dawn

APC’s new convert, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara has inaugurated M S Turay as chairman of the Russia Market Women Organisation (RMWO). The ceremony took place at Magazine Cut in the east of Freetown and a

Children in Sierra Leone have joined other African countries in commemorating the Day of the African Child. June 16 was a day the Organisation of Africa Unity (OAU) adopted following a spate of massacres of child

'Difficult circumstances’ is the best description one could use when discussing the issue of the police in Sierra Leone at the moment. In the midst of mucky understanding in trying to justify, or better still,

The Sierra Leone Girl Child Network organized a fund raising event on Friday June 15 to champion the cause of girl child education in the country. The event took place at the Androsa Leisure Centre, Murray

Freetown 18 June 2012 - The campaign teams of the chief executive officer of Johnasen Football Club Isha Johansen (in photo), and former Sierra Leone international Brima Marzola Kamara, are pleased to inform the general

The medical practitioners of Kambia District this reporter can authoritatively assert were conspicuously  absent for  a one-day  workshop the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat organized on Monday June 11th this year at the Kambia

LONDON (AlertNet) - The most important goal of the U.N. conference on sustainable development in Rio de Janeiro this week is to unite the world behind a common vision that drives progress on all three

Soccer pundit Alie Bittar last night claimed Sierra Leone have an attacking force that can scare any team in the continent. The former Spectator Sports Editor Bittar, who is now a pundit for African Sports

NDJAMENA, Chad, June 18, 2012/ -- Airtel Chad (http://www.airtel.com) has collaborated with one of the leading banks on the continent – ECOBANK- to launch Airtel Money in the West African nation. Touted as the first

PARIS, France, June 18, 2012/ -- Orange Money (http://www.orange.com) has reached the threshold of 4 million customers in Africa and the Middle East and celebrates its commercial launch in Jordan and Mauritius. These two additional

LAGOS, Nigeria - Ask Tony O. Elumelu, Chairman of Heirs Holdings and Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp), about the African private sector’s integral role in the continent’s economic and social development, and you get a

The Gender Media Club Sierra Leone in collaboration with UN Women and the Independent Media Commission (IMC) has held a two-day training of journalists on profiling of women candidates up to the November 17 general

As a wake up call to join the fight against corruption in Sierra Leone, the Northern Regional Office of the Immigration Department has demonstrated its commitment in strengthening partnership with the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC)

TUNIS, Tunisia, June 15, 2012/ -- The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) is at Rio+20 to voice Africa’s agenda until 22 June, with fellow African institutions such as the African Union Commission and the