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April 2013

Year in year out, April 25 has always been celebrated as World Malaria Day. To all intents and purposes it always strikes me as ironic that the senior executives of the World Health Organization (WHO)

The Member of Parliament for Constituency 102, Hon. Alie Kaloko, yesterday donated examination materials to twenty-seven primary schools in the Constituency. Close to 2,000 pupils received 2B pencils, rulers, erasers, and pens to write this year’s

Reigning Miss Sierra Leone USA 2013, Ruby B. Johnson leaves the United States of America today to take part in Saturday’s independence ceremony.  While in Sierra Leone she will visit school girls at all levels

Black Royalty Family (BRF) launched their debut album at the National Stadium Swimming pool last Friday, April 20. The United States hip hop group, which comprises three members, released their album titled: ‘For the Love of

‘Borbor Bele’ star Emmerson Amidu Bockarie and Prince Kuti-George will be among several other notable individuals and institutions to receive the Presidential Awards at State House on Independence Day, April 27th.  (Photo: Emmerson, credit Emmerson

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - In20minutes.org is a global campaign designed to encourage HIV testing. The campaign begins on World AIDS DAY 2013 and will be promoted during the Goree Challenge IV – Spirit of Malabo

Mr. Shar Hemore of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, on Monday, April 22 said that World Malaria Day will create awareness raising and increase knowledge among the people of Sierra Leone. Addressing Journalists at a

I am told that one of the opposition parties has petitioned the election results of the last November elections which saw His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma re-elected overwhelmingly as President of the Republic of

A Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Conference of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists, 12 April 2013, By Dr Ibrahim Abdullah I guess we have to agree that there is a political divide in Sierra Leone

New Delhi/Kampala, April 23rd , 2013: Bharti Airtel (“Airtel”), a leading global telecommunications services provider with operations in 20 countries across Asia and Africa, today said that it has entered into a definitive agreement with

Youths from across Africa on the 4th edition of  the African Youth Coalition Against Hunger AYCAH (AYCAH) conference in  conclusion of a week long workshop on the theme “Enhancing Youths For Sustainable Development,”  on Monday

41 African countries have joined the Initiative WASHINGTON, April 23, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- During the first Advisory Board Meeting of the Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) Initiative, Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development

John Okafor is one of Nollywood`s foremost film actors. He has starred in over 300 films and won major international awards.  Okafor is popularly known as Mr. Ibu, a name he got from one of

In its quest to eradicate graft in the country, the Anti-Corruption Commission North has on the 19th April 2013 held an outreach meeting with the people of Makrugbeh Section Tane Chiefdom Tonkolili District. The meeting

Analysys Mason recently conducted primary research with mobile Internet users in six countries in the Middle East and Africa (MEA): Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and the UAE. We asked them about their