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April 2013

In my first installment of this report about my recent visit to Sierra Leone, I wrote about the tremendous work that the Kanga Schools project is doing to enable Sierra Leonean students in schools, colleges

Milla Group the leading plastic manufacturing company in the country at Bai Bureh Road, Fisher Lane, Kissy, has unveiled new plastic products such as PVC pipes for plumbing, water tanks, plastic chairs and other household

Following the successful implementation of His Excellency the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma’s “Agenda for Change” during his first term of office from 2007 to 2012, the development-oriented president’s agenda has graduated into the Agenda

The country that gave the world two groundbreaking innovations in technology: M-Pesa, a mobile banking system, and Ushahidi, a platform for crowdsourcing information during disasters, is now taking its technological talents to new heights. The

Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia, should be competing with the best in the world when we talk in terms of economic power and infrastructural growth rate. The sprouting skyscrapers can easily capture skywards

Sierra Leone’s Hon. Minister of Finance and Economic Development Dr. Keifala Marah has on behalf of the Government and People of Sierra Leone signed a Thirteen Million United States Dollars ($13Million) loan with the Director

Excitement greeted news that Vérone Mankou, the 26-year old entrepreneur from the Republic of Congo, has designed Africa’s first smartphone and a tablet, the hand-held computer that comes with a touch screen.  (Photo: The VMK

THE OSWALD HANCILES COLUMN On Friday, 19th April, 2013, inside his office in State House, President Ernest Bai Koroma expressed his pleasure as two executives of British Media’s Country Section, Zornitza Natcheva (Project Manager) and Fraser

Mogadishu, 22 April 2013 – The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission for Somalia (SRCC), Mahamet Saleh Annadif condemned the murder of Radio Mogadishu journalist, Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh who was shot

Another attempt at peace by the Sierra Leone High Commission in London It is a shame that some groups or associations that are formed with the noble objective of promoting development and peaceful co-existence sometimes become

I read about President Koroma’s visit to this region through news dispatches by our Saudi Press Attaché, M.B. Jalloh, in our online newspapers. The coverage was comprehensive, informative and timely.   (Photo: Ibrahim Sillah, author) For President

Dallas Texas, U.S.A.  April 21, 2013 - Since its inception, the Ark of God International Ministry in Texas has been the center of a multicultural community that is vying to accommodate and preserve different cultures

The Single Leg Amputee Sport Association (SLASA) is organizing a nationwide league in Kenema city, eastern Sierra Leone. Speaking to this medium Mambud K Samai said that Kenema city has been selected for the 3rd hosting

Sierra Leone’s Finance Minister Calls for More Practical Help for Women Sierra Leone’s Finance and Economic Development Minister, Dr. Kaifala Marah has called on founding member States of  Equal Futures Partnership (United States, Australia, Benin, Bangladesh,

The Information and Communications Officer of Kenema City Council, Mohamed Arapha Kabbah, has revealed that the administration of the council has issued out stringent warning to owners of business houses to pay their taxes to