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January 2014

The Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Tuesday formally presented to the Minister of Finance documents of the over 1.5 billion Leones of stolen public monies recovered by the Commission in 2013. Speaking

Sierra Leone’s Minister of YOUTH Hon. Alimamy Kamara is presenting in the Senegalese capital of Dakar together with two Youth leaders Francis Foday Kamara of Youth Action Movement and Florence Mabinty Koroma of Youth Action

There seems to be a rare outbreak of sanity rearing its head in Sierra Leone, where years of gorging on a diet of cheap ethno-religious politics has clogged all the arteries of our society. But by

Sierra Leone’s Charge d' Affaires in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has told the Saudi Arabian Sierra Leone Parliamentary Friendship Committee that exchanging parliamentary visits between Saudi and Sierra Leone parliamentarians can bolster interests of

London, 13 January, 2014 - Observations on PPRC's report on the petition filed against the elections held by the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) for the election of National Officers by the National Party Conference

Against all odds Sierra Leone is making a staggered change from the doldrums of a decade civil war through peace, good governance and democratization to laying a true foundation for the country’s development. When Sierra Leone

On 9th January, H. E. Mr. Zhao Yanbo, the newly appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People's Republic of China to the Republic of Sierra Leone, presented the Letter of Credence to H. E.

Sierra Leonean international and Dinamo Minsk defender Umaru 'Zingalay' Bangura has been voted the sierraleonefootball.com player of the year 2013 by viewers of the website.  (Photo: Bangura voted sierraleonefootball.com Player of the Year  for the first time) The announcement was

In recent years, civil society groups have become major actors in the fight against corruption, both nationally and on the global stage. Under the glaring sun of a recent Monday, an unusual group of protesters marched

Constituency 110 in the Western Urban electoral district of Sierra Leone, in Freetown has become the nerve center of the All Peoples Congress (APC) success. One unique thing about this constituency is that it has consistently

Shades-of-Britain is a multicultural pageant extravaganza event with live British entertainment. Offering a fresh approach to pageants, with fun and exciting new modern categories, this triple threat competition for ambition, brains and talent is for male

NPA Against Agenda Of Prosperity. Grass Field A Permanent Graveyard Have you ever heard the expression “What you see is what you get”? What if, what you see only gets you into trouble, because it is

Doha, 10 January 2014 – For the sixth consecutive month, Egyptian authorities continue to delay their decision to release Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr cameraman Mohamed Badr. The verdict in his case was scheduled to be announced yesterday.  However, the court

Mogadishu- January 9th, 2014 ; The Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (SRCC) for Somalia, Ambassador Mahamat Saleh Annadif today paid a courtesy call on the new Somalia Prime Minister H.E.

An average of about 45 elephants per day were illegally killed in 2011 in every two of five protected sites holding elephant populations in Africa, thanks to the growing illegal trade in ivory, which continues