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February 2013

Since the South African management, headed by Theo Keyter took over the Vimetco Bauxite Mining Company, positive changes have started taking place in the company as confessed by the hitherto aggrieved workers and community people. I

In partnership with the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology,  the Kenema District Council, has donated an assortment of science and sporting equipment to various secondary schools in the district. Among the schools that benefited from

It is an open secret that Sierra Leone is still suffering from food insecurity despite the hundreds of tractors brought into the country. This is evident in the ever increasing price of certain food items.

The carcass of the sunk Solondo Dredge at Sierra Rutile is reported to have become the target of scrap metal thieves who have now made it an occupation to be stealing the expensive buckets off

Since the announcement of the controversial 2012 election results petitioned by the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP)  the party seems to have been torn apart by the heated controversy over the continuation of the

The Minister of Trade and Industry, Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara, has called on members of the TAWOPANEH Traders Co-operative Credit Union Ltd to be more united, visionary, focused and developmental-oriented like their counterparts in Ghana

Parrot in Prison - Parrot has visited one of the prisons in this country and has discovered that prisoners are living better than prison officers. This sounds absurd but it is just the plain truth;

Where there is weak opposition, democracy is threatened; opposition serves as the bedrock on which democracy rests. Therefore, the main opposition party is always very important to every decent democracy as it bears the sacred

The alarming rate of teenage pregnancy, especially among school pupils, has become a cause for concern for many well-meaning Sierra Leoneans, including His Excellency the president, Ernest Bai Koroma who expressed concern over the ugly

The 1st accused person in the Johnson murder trial, Alake Olive Johnson, is now breathing a sigh of relief as legal luminary  Melron Nicol-Wilson Esq.  announced in court on Friday that together with Lawyer Joseph

The Society for Democratic Initiative (SDI) wishes to unreservedly and unconditionally condemn the beating of Elkass Sannoh (a reporter working for the Africa Young Voices Group), by assistant superintendent of police Murana E. Kamara and

The ministry of Finance and Economic Development on 11th February 2013 concluded a one day pre legislative briefing with members of parliament on the Appropriation Bill 2013 that was first read before the House by

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the United States of America His Excellency Bockari kortu Stevens says - “Participatory governance which the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma practices - promotes many forms of citizen participation beyond

Mogadishu's fire department is resuming operations for the first time since 1991 when civil war broke out in Somalia. Firefighters in the capital have recently completed an intensive training course organised by the African Union Mission

Africans in the Diaspora, specifically in New York, are making big moves – politically speaking.  (Photo: Naaimat Muhammed) An unprecedented number of four Africans have declared their candidacy for New York City Council 16th District seat in