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August 2013

Sierra Leone’s envoy to China, His Excellency Victor Bockarie Foh has, on Wednesday 14th August strongly advocated for more Chinese investments to be taken into Sierra Leone, when he encouraged the China-Africa Development Fund (CADFund)

Manpower Budget Hearings for 2014 have commenced at the Sierra Leone Civil Service Training College, Tower Hill. In an interview with the Director of Human Resource Planning and budgeting at the Human Resource Management Office (HRMO),

Parliaments have a vital role to play in both mitigation of and adaptation to climate change in Africa Johannesburg / Hamburg, August 16 – Approximately 1.4 billion people globally don’t have access to electricity, yet virtually

One wonders what came over the minister of Transport and Aviation being misled by management and staff of the Sierra Leone Road Transport Authority (SLRTA) to deliberately misled the issuing out of a misplaced threat

His Excellency Victor Bockarie Foh has informed the Vice Chief Executive Officer of China State Construction Engineering Cooperation (CSCEC), Wang Lei, that since he was elected into office, President Ernest Bai Koroma has succeeded in

The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, H.E. Ernest Bai Koroma, publicly pronounced during the campaign period for the 2012 General Elections, and was emphatic during his speech on being inaugurated for his Second

The Director General of the ECOWAS Inter – Governmental Group Against Money laundering in West Africa (GIABA) Dr. Abdullahi Shehu has commended the government and people of Sierra Leone for ranking high in its bench

Representatives of the Council of Churches in Sierra Leone (CCSL) and Sierra Leone Muslim Missionary Union had the opportunity to visit the Addax Bioenergy project site in the Bombali and Tonkolili Districts on Friday 9th

Whether it is a music concert, fashion show, reggae celebrity soccer tournament or other entertainment ventures, New York based Irie Jam Media Group has a reputation for its lavish productions.  Friday night’s press conference and

One of the elders of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), and one time Trade and Industries Minister, Dr. Sama Banya, has confessed that backbiting, betrayals, obscene languages and constant police intervention appears to

Parrot has been following the transactions between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) boss and some companies. The erudite professor does not believe some of the allegations some companies have been making against the EPA boss,

After losing the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) flag bearer contest in 2011, Reverend Dr. Joseph Gaima Lukulay Moiba, Ph.D. (Cand, UK) submerged, but he has now re-emerged with his political theory which states that

Following the discovery of massive malpractices in Zircon sand mining in especially Shenge, Tisana and Mobureh in Moyamba District where the West African Zircon Mining Company was involved in rampant illicit mining, buying, and exporting

Socfin Agricultural Company situated in the Malen Chiefdom, Pujehun District, US$122 million investment which began operations in April 2011, makes it one of the largest agricultural investments in Sierra Leone.   (Photo: General Manager of Socfin

Latest reports reaching this press have indicated that the firebrand Minster of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Finda Diana Konomanyi, got married on Saturday, August 17th this year in her home town in Kono