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August 2014

Alhaji Foday Randolph Bayoh, Deputy Minister of Water Resources, has embarked on Ebola sensitization in various mosques in Bo, Southern Sierra Leone as part of his outreach activities. (Photo: Water Minister, Alhaji Foday Randolph Bayoh) According

Sierra Leone’s Presidential Youth Aide in the Office of the President, Bai Mamoud Bangura (in photo) has sent a strong challenge to all young people in the country to be vigilant enough to fight against

Prof. Dr. Ekmeledin Ihsanoglu is a mild-mannered scientist, diplomat and academic who served as the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) from 2004-14.  (Photo: Hon. Theo Nicol (r) having audience with Dr.

Freetown, August 12 (SLENA) - Munazamat Al-Dawa Al-Islamia, an International NGO Monday 11 August presented a cheque for twenty-five million leones (Le25M) to Vice President Alhaji Chief Sam-Sumana as part of their contribution in the

As a personal friend, and in order to put to rest gossip and lies spreading like wild fire around the world, the update on Mr. Usman Boie Kamara, (UBK) Minister of Trade and Industry, Sierra

In a bid to help Government in the fight against the deadly Ebola virus that has ravaged lives in the country, Women’s Forum on Monday 11th August 2014 offered prayers to end the outbreak at

The Voiceless Sierra Leoneans were bemused and taken aback by President Ernest Bai Koroma’s late proactiveness to address the nation regarding the Ebola scourge. Yes they were! The 30th July, Midnight address on the Ebola

DESPITE our plethora of socio-economic woes, Sierra Leone is a rich resource nation blessed with natural endowments that if well tapped could enable us overcome the mountain of challenges we face.  (Photo: Zainab Tunkara Clarkson, author) It

Freetown, Sierra Leone, 11 August 2014 - RSCSL President Justice Philip Nyamu Waki has granted an application by convicted former Civil Defence Forces Director of War Moinina Fofana for Conditional Early Release, but only after

“Please come out and be counted and recognized” - AMB Daramy. The Sierra Leone Embassy in The Gambia, under the dynamic leadership of the Head of Mission Ambassador Soulayman Daramy   has embarked on a Registration Exercise

Our country is in crisis; it is in agony; it is in anguish; it is in a state of shock and confusion. We are perplexed and near depression. Our country has gone through much and

39 year old Fatmata Mansaray of the Rural Training institute (RTI) Tissor, Kenema, has been sentenced to jail for 6 years with no alternative by Judge, Hon. Justice Mange Deen Tarawallie of the High Court,

Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) East, Alfred Karrow Kamara, has issued a stern warning to Hangha and Tissor land owning families to avoid a demarcated land between the two communities were the tropical farm

The branch manager of Guarantee Trust Bank (GTB) Kenema city eastern, Sierra Leone, Abu Bakarr Turay, has assured customers in and out Kenema City of joining hands with the Government of Sierra Leone and the

Freetown, 11 August 2014 – President Ernest Bai Koroma made his third visit to the Ebola Emergency Operations Centre (EOC) at the WHO Country Office in Freetown 11 August. The President last visited the Centre