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June 2015

Cameroon crashed out of the CAF U23 Championship race at the Stage Omnisports de Yaoundé on Saturday afternoon as Sierra Leone reached the final round on away goals. John Keister named the same squad that was

Sierra Leone’s top scorer in Europe last season Alhassan Kamara is giving back to his homeland by helping kids orphaned by the ebola virus. The scorer of 14 Allsvenskan goals in the Swedish top flight division

Freetown. 28 May 2015. The United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) Sierra Leone Ebola Crisis Manager (ECM), Bintou Keita, last week inaugurated an UNMEER-funded water borehole project at the Observatory Interim Care Centre

The frequent power shortages currently happening in West Africa are causing a significant human and economic development slow-down and have forced ECOWAS’ Governments to initiate several measures to remedy the energy crisis. Nigerian government recently announced

The campaign to secure the release of Peter Greste, Baher Mohamed, Mohamed Fahmy and Abdullah Elshamy has won a major PR Award. The SABRE Awards EMEA, organized by leading PR publication The Holmes Report, gave

Mr. Momoh Kemoh Konte, Chairman/Commissioner National Telecommunications (NATCOM) of the Republic of Sierra Leone attended the WSIS Forum, hosted by ITU, UNESCO, UNCTAD and UNDP holding the largest-ever gathering of an ‘ICT for development’ community.

The newly-appointed Coordinator of the West Africa Agriculture Project (WAAP), Sorie Sulaiman Sesay, informed this reporter in an interview that there are several challenges in managing such a big project including the Rural and Private

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Energy and Power, Ambassador Henry O. Macauley, has signed an epic Joint Declaration with the European Union  for the Union’s  support to the Energy Sector in Sierra Leone. The ceremony took place

A Media Team from the AU Commission led by Mrs. Wynne Musabayana arrived in Sierra Leone on Wednesday 20th May 2015 after visiting Liberia and Guinea to assess the current situation and also get facts

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Energy and Power, Ambassador Henry O. Macauley , today  called on the United Nations to turn TALK  on financing Sustainable Energy For All into Kolowatt-hour.  Emphasing  that electricity changes lives and

Sierra Leone’s Permanent Representative to the African Union and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, His Excellency  Osman Keh Kamara , has made strong recommendations about solving the perennial problem

As the date draws closer for the election of what I believe, Dr. Samura Kamara, our erudite Foreign Affairs Chief, as President of the African Development Bank, , I am publishing again an article I

Sierra Leonean female journalists, under the umbrella ‘Women in the Media Sierra Leone’ (WIMSAL), have injected fresh energy into efforts to end Ebola in their country following the 27 April kickoff of their “Getting Ebola

Each year, Africa Day gives us the opportunity to celebrate Africa’s achievements and to reflect on its challenges.  The dominant story of the year has been the Ebola crisis that swept West Africa, claiming at

Geneva, May 21, 015 (SLENA) - At the margins of the 68th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, the Minister of Health and Sanitation Dr. Abu Bakarr Fofanah held bilateral discussions with his Chinese counterpart