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February 2013

In a bid to enhance the full implementation of the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS) programs of activities, the SLRCS last Tuesday, January 29th  started a 4-day Review Implementation Workshop for Branch Health Offices

Erstwhile Deputy Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs, Rosaline Oya Sankoh (in photo) reportedly vandalized her New England Ville office and made away with government properties after she had been relieved from office. Documents

The Local Unit Commander of Kissy Division, Superintendant A C Koroma has tendered a letter to the Director of Lands and Surveys in the Ministry of Lands requesting for an adjudication of the portion of

Undoubtedly, sustainable development has become an overreaching objective and challenge in our country over the past five years. Assessing progress in a reconstructing Sierra Leone, where government, non-governmental organizations and communities have engaged is something

The Gambia: “You can’t work and expect to deliver and develop if you give your ears to dogs barking. These were the exact words of President Yahya Jammeh of the ‘almighty’ Leader and President of

On 10 January 2013, Somali police detained a journalist after he interviewed a woman who reported she was raped by members of the Somali security forces some months earlier. The alleged rape victim was also

In continuation of its month long post-elections campaign, the Attitudinal and Behavioural Change (ABC) Secretariat has stormed three secondary school in the western rural district and successfully transmitted civic education messages on citizenship, democracy, good

Hamburg/Dubai, 01 February:  The international policy research organisation World Future Council has appointed 12-year-old Kehkashan Basu as youth advisor. Basu, who lives with her parents in Dubai, was the youngest participant at the official UN

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) welcomes the Auditor General’s report on the Accounts of Sierra Leone and wishes to remind the general public that the role of the Audit Service is ‘to independently review the economy,

ACCRA, Ghana, February 1, 2013/ -- K-NET (http://www.knetgh.com), a leading African telecommunications company offering triple-play voice, data and video services across sub-Saharan Africa, is pleased to announce the launch a new range of broadband Internet

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) Sierra Leone branch have with held the results of over five hundred candidates who sat the November 2012 West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) as a result of

Michael Mayei M. Sandy, a Sierra Leonean national has been appointed by FARGO BANKING GROUP to act as a Non Exclusive Introducing Agent with the role of introducing potential clients to the business of FARGO

Lead defence counsel in the murder trial of Alake Johnson and others accused of the killing of the late Mr. Johnson at Wilberforce, in Freetown, Melron Nicol-Wilson has applied for the case against his clients

Proprietor of Leone Lodge, formerly Taia Resort, Mr. Wilfred Sam King, has branded Admin and Chain Supply Manager of World Vision International, Mr. Dwight Jones (in photo), a hero owing to his selfless rescue mission

A former Diasporan, now General Manager of the Sierra Leone Road Transport (SLRTC) Mr. Bockarie Lewis-Kamara (in photo), has briefed his former colleagues in the Diaspora about his successes since he took over as GM