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April 2013

World Vision Sierra Leone one the leading child welfare non-organisations in the country has recently rescued fire victims of  Blama Gbanie in the Bumpeh Chiefdom Bo District.  (Photo: Some of the donated items) The village of

The issue of political superiority in Port Loko District has caught the attention of many indigenes and non-indigenes of the District because the center can no longer hold. While females of the famous District are unifying

The United States Embassy in Freetown will soon open a library and archives section for the emergent Sierra Leone film industry.  (Photo: US Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Michael S. Owen) The Library and Archives section will

The Electoral Commission of SLAJ wishes to inform the membership of SLAJ that elections for SLAJ National and Regional Executives will take place during the Biennial Conference on Saturday April 13, 2013 from 10:00am to

In December 2012 IBIS, a non-profit, Danish non-governmental organisation that works at global, national and local levels to support equal access to education, influence and resources for both men and women through advocacy in Africa

In fulfillment of its mandate to protect people and the environment from the harmful effects of radiation, a team of regulators from the Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection Authority (NSPRA) conducted inspections at the Sierra

Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma and the Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan last Sunday, 31st March, 2013 discussed ways to enhance bilateral

Despite twenty years of successive presentations of African Film Festival (AFF) to audiences in New York and around the United States of America, Sierra Leonean born AFF founder and executive director is still humbled and

Saturday 9 March 2013 recorded a landmark event in the history of Sierra Leoneans in Australia as they celebrated the 2012 election victory of the All People’s Congress (APC) party of His Excellency the President

The three days working visit of President Ernest Bai Koroma and his delegation was full of activities.  Soon after his arrival at the Andrews Air-force Base on Tuesday night, President Ernest Bai Koroma and his

In Women’s Empowerment… Don’t Push Us Around, (February 2013); I focused on the ideology of patriarchy and its undesirable consequences on women’s rights and freedom.  The practice of down-grading our being is as old as

Sierra Leone will never stop fascinating development partners at the global front. We continue to get the admiration of world leaders, the latest being the President Obama of America.  This all has to do with

Those days, when The roar of the Lion Mountain would be heard in the whole world and the echoes would be felt in the veins of the nearest neighbours Those days, when Sierra Leone would play, dance, sing and sleep in

March 30, 2013 - Sierra Leone’s President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma today arrived in Dubai on a three-day official working visit.  The President was officially invited by the Vice President and Prime Minister of the

All over the world, agriculture undeniably provides significant opportunities for investment, jobs, revenue collections and economic growth.  In the United States of America (USA) the government relies on agriculture for the creation of jobs and