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African Minerals wins UN-designated International Year of Planet Earth Award 2009

African Minerals Limited (AIM:AMI), the mineral exploration and development company with significant iron ore and base metal interests in Sierra Leone, West Africa,  has been awarded the prestigious International Year of Planet Earth (IYPE) Award 2009 recognised by the United Nations.  African

As a native born of Kono District, I have followed with keen interest the issue bordering on the disqualifying of Madam Elizabeth Simbiwa Shorgboh Torto to contest the now gone and forgotten paramount chieftaincy election

It was the day that they’ve waited for.  After months of planning and preparations, the prestigious Williams Hall at the Greenbelt Holiday Inn was the location for the Koya Descendants Convention. As they arrived from different

I am looking at this issue from a political standpoint.  It is political because, when the APC-led government of President Ernest Bai Koroma shall finally decide to appoint Professor Septimus Kai Kai as the head

The last batch of 23 Sierra Leonean pilgrims departed the Hajj Terminal of the King Abdul Aziz International Airport, Jeddah, Thursday, 17th December 2009 at about 4:00 a.m.  Saudi Arabian local time. (Photo: Leader of

Two strong men in the All People’s Congress (APC) received gifts (plaques) in the holy land of Mecca from the party’s Saudi Arabia branch shortly after the completion of their “Hajj” rituals. Presenting the gifts on

O My GOD! They’ve done it, by whose inspiration I have no idea. But to me a new day has dawned in the practice of journalism in Sierra Leone. I won't call it a revolution

If I was the President of our Sierra Leone I would have been preparing to broadcast a message of greetings to all my fellow citizens and to wish them a Merry Christmas and a Prosperous

Sierra Leone should be the best of examples when it comes to narrating the effect of a bloody civil war, and the effect that military intervention had on us. Our civil war must serve as

The Silver Age Be Friendly Project initiated by the Bombali Development Association, has been launched last Saturday, 12th December 2009, in grand style. (Photo: Social Secretary Jamal Jalloh and out-going High Commissioner Melvin Chalobah) Launched by

Sierra Leone’s President has joined world leaders to extend heartfelt condolences on behalf of his government and people to the bereaved families of 25th November, 2009 tragic incident in the city of Jeddah through the

For a country that has a relative tiny population of less than five million citizens, Sierra Leone has been able to produce remarkable sons and daughters. (Photo:  Dr. John Sandy, Board Chairman,  Sierra Leone Arc

UNICEF Sierra Leone has said in Freetown that Malaria emergency is bound to shoot up owing to the fact that the number of treated bed nets needed to considerably trim down malaria related under-five deaths

The country’s most reliably mobile network, COMIUM, last Friday opened the country’s most state-of-the-art contact center at No.1 Nas Carew Road, Off Wilkinson Road, Freetown. The Primary aim is to be close to the customers

Head of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC). Charles Francis Margai, has told the Freetown Media that there is no reason for Sierra Leone as a country to be poor.  He made this revelation