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February 2012

Aminata, fondly named Soso, a resident of 2 Elmont Road, Waterloo, Sunday 29th was found dead in a toilet pit. Circumstances surrounding the incident, the Police Commander of Waterloo Police Division said, involved the boyfriend of the

Twenty-eight year old Amadu Junior Kanu, a final year student at the Fatima College, Makeni, yesterday appeared before Magistrate Steven Conteh of Court No.1 to answer to a count of possessing unlawful ammunition. Testifying in his

The journey of the next fifty years of independence has begun; and we are gathered here today to map out how we are going to make it better than the journey we made during the

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, January 31, 2012/ -- Recent Nobel Prize laureate, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, today assumed the chair of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA) (http://www.alma2015.org) from President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of

When you look at a country like China, from the viewpoint of development and then, you are told how the country was, years back, you will come to appreciate the commitment and dedication that each

African Minerals Ltd (AMI.L: News ) said Monday evening that it is launching a book-build offering of up to $350 million of convertible bonds due 2017. The bonds will be issued at par and are expected

His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma’s presented on the occasion of the review of the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Forum, Country Review Report of Sierra Leone at the 16th Summit of the Committee of

Addis Ababa, 30th January 2012 – The Organization of African First Ladies Against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA) held its General Assembly, today 30 January 2012, at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the theme: 

The Okada services (a taxi-like service that ferries people between localities), which is available countrywide especially in urban and peri-urban settings, is facilitating social intercourse between communities in Sierra Leone. Such has enormous benefit to

Different heads of Christian Churches and Muslim Jamaats in the United States of America who heeded to President Ernest Bai Koroma’s call of one dedicated week of prayer to invoke the Power of the Almighty

SENEGAL - Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Observer Mission currently in Senegal on a fact finding mission with regards February 2012 Presidential election has summoned, briefed and held discussions with ECOWAS Ambassadors accredited

The President Ernest Bai Koroma’s Government has received another boost in the form of budgetary support from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA). The World Bank Directors approved the sum of Twenty Four Million

Consequent to guesses that the assumed withdrawal of the United Nations special representative to Sierra Leone was due to government’s protest, a release debunking the allegation was last weekend put out.  (Photo: Michael Von der

Our beloved Salone, blessed by nature in the form of plentiful minerals, beautiful landscape, good climate, and the consequential edaphic community, has yet to realize/reap these virtues.  A land of about 6 million has yet