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March 2012

The Road To Kailahun - Newspapers have made all sorts of reports about the case of Tom Nyuma, the chairman of the Kailahun District Council who has recently joined the ruling All People’s Congress party. Nyuma

The Inter-Secondary School Cricket Championship saw Albert Academy through with 29 runs up against St. Edwards in their first encounter on Tuesday March 13th. St. Edwards won the toss on choosing to field first.  Albert Academy

Akmed Femi Mansaray (in photo) has been endorsed by his people in a popular handpicking ceremony, organized this week in the Bafodia/Fadugu chiefdoms, in the Koinadugu District, Kabala, Northern Sierra Leone. His people told Sierra Express

A corpse was discovered at approximately 8:56 hours on 11th March by PC 10733 Mansary I S attached at the Bank of Sierra Leone and residing at No 56 Jalloh Terrace Kissy Freetown. According to reports, 

Sierra Leone’s judo team has departed for Conakry where they will encounter their Guinean counterparts in preparation for the Morocco Judo Championship this April. The initial plan is to engage the Guinean side in a trial

The Olympic solidarity in collaboration with the National Olympic Committee (NOC) is supporting a ten-day Weightlifting Association (SLWA) course, to continue for ten days. Twenty participants from the North, South, East and West of the country

Sierra Leonean security forces guard the Marampa 803, a vessel apprehended for alleged illegal fishing activities, that has been moored off the West African country's capital Freetown January 21, 2012. West Africa, recognized as one

African Minerals Limited continues to show its readiness to transform Sierra Leone. The company’s passion for underprivileged and marginalized groups in the country is being greeted as a major step in the right direction. It

Controversy continues to dog the life of the disgraced mayor of Freetown with the last looming for him over claims that he has to pay a resounding amount of money. The issue of the disgraced mayor

People of Constituency 104 in the east of the capital Freetown have expressed the need to change their representative in the well of Parliament come the November polls.  (Photo: Tunda Lewally and his wife) As the

Artisanal Mining Destroys Forestry Reserves  - Activities of Artisanal miners in forestry reserve areas in the south, east, and northern parts of Sierra Leone are seriously depleting theses reserve areas to an extent of removing

Arthur Kwesi-John suspended Deputy Chief Administrator currently standing trial for corrupt cases with the elected mayor on corrupt charges  continues to visit the Freetown City Council without any good reason. Workers of the Freetown City council,

The main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has maintained in recent days some news leads about a cross section of its members cross carpeting to the ruling All People’s Congress. Worse still are the

Yenga, a settlement in Kailahun District, eastern Sierra Leone, remains under the firm grips of Guinean soldiers who took control of it during the decade-long civil war in the country. The war ended 10 years ago,

When Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war ended in 2002, the remote areas where that diamond-fuelled conflict originated had become a blasted wasteland of ruined villages and people sheltering under tarpaulins. Today, viewed from a lumbering