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June 2012

Residents of Moribaya, Yealie Boyah and its environs in the Kambia district have commended the Safer Future Youth Development Organization (SFYDO), for the installation of solar submersible pump for the supply of safe drinking water

It has been reported that there is an outbreak of cholera in Yealie Boyah, Kambia town and some other parts of the District. Over the weekend it was reported that over fifteen people died within the

VIENNA/OSLO – We grew up in entirely different regions of the world: one in Norway, the other in Sierra Leone. The gap between our two countries in terms of development could hardly be starker: Norway’s

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