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April 2013

The Government Secondary School, Kenema (The Kay School) and its old students association, Kenema Old Students Association (KOSA) are converging in the City of Kenema, Eastern Sierra Leone to celebrate the sixty first (61st) Anniversary

THE OSWALD HANCILES COLUMN This is what London Mining says about itself on its corporate web site: “At London Mining, we believe people are the key to our success and we encourage people to develop their

(Bonn, 15 April 2013) – As part of their work to support African nations along a low-emission path to development, partner UN agencies, the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) and the World Bank group are

A mission from the ECOWAS Volunteers Programme’s (EVP) Regional Office, led by the Director of the ECOWAS Youth and Sports Development Centre in Ouagadougou, was in Sierra Leone from 8th to 12th April to fast-track

“A Year of  Hate Speech and Political Divide” is the theme of the damning 'State of The Media Report  2012', launched past Friday by the Society for Democratic Initiatives (SDI) in the conference room of

The Executive Director of the Society for Democratic Initiatives (SDI), Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, has accused Awareness Times newspaper of killing the Independent Media Commission (IMC) by deliberately and boastfully defying the Commission. He made the allegation

In line with the expectation of most journalists in Sierra Leone, Kelvin Lewis, the Proprietor and Managing Editor of Sierra Leone newspaper AWOKO,  has been elected National President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists

Sierra Leone’s capital city, Freetown, has been disfigured again by long petrol queues, obviously due to fuel shortage, a chronic problem which Sierra Leoneans have been suffering since the historic 1980 OAU Conference which devastated

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) has concluded a two-day training of Members of Parliament in Sierra Leone. The seminar, which ended past Friday, April 12, was geared towards building the capacity of newly elected Members of

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), now has a brand-new president, Kelvin Lewis. He was elected overwhelmingly on Saturday, April 13th at the Miatta Conference Hall, Yuoyi Building, Brookfields, Freetown, during the association’s biennial

EcoMed, the state of the art Medical Diagnostic Centre which opened in November last year, continues to add to its range of advanced medical diagnostics, reinforcing its position as an affordable one-stop-shop for all major

Young legal luminaries have pledged Le20 million to support their colleague lawyer,  Osman Timbo who has vied for the Western Area Regional Youth Chairmanship of the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) in the party’s coming

Police officers in Koribondo, Bo District, southern Sierra Leone, are reported to be having their precious lives jeopardized by the dilapidated building which they are using as a police post. Reports say the building was vandalized

As Kelvin triumphs, joy overflows the heart of the great bird.  The election of Kelvin AWOKO Lewis as president of journalists has left Parrot in tears of joy.  Congratulations, Chief Awoko. Well, to prove to Kelvin

After 15 odd years of fleeing from my land of birth Sierra Leone, I finally made the first visit to the country in February this year.  I left Sydney, Australia, on 14 February and arrived