a
Your trusted place for Sierra Leone and global news
Home2010March (Page 4)

March 2010

This Easter, Britons will eat their way through 80m chocolate eggs without the slightest taste of how the essential ingredient in our favourite treat is harvested. The truth, as BBC Panorama reporter Paul Kenyon discovered when

A significant portion of Christians from various churches across the country, have in what has been referred to by many observes as an unprecedented move, issued a two-week ultimatum to His Excellency the President of

The problem with success and power is that very few people are willing to bring weaknesses and or failures, to criticize the successful character. Rather the masses, particularly his/her supporters would only bring up stories

The incessant castigation of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), witnessed especially during the Commission's recent corruption investigation of the erstwhile Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Haja Afsatu Kabba by segments of the Sierra Leone press

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Sierra Leone and the Administrative Control Agency (ACA) of The Arab Republic of Egypt have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to foster mutual cooperation in the field of fighting

Your Excellencies, Heads of Missions and International Organisations, The Vice Marshall, Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen Let me first of all start by welcoming you and thanking all of you for celebrating

Sierra Leone's Foreign Affairs and International Corporations Ministers has said it is a privilege for her to serve as Minister under President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma. (Photo: Peter Penfold and Zainab Bangura at the reception

It is not often that we hear from an African First Mother. For the first time Sierra Leone has an elected president whose mother is alive. So when BBC’s reporter Umaru Fofana visited the northern

President Ernest Bai Koroma has showered very generous praises on his spouse, First Lady Sia Nyama Koroma (photo), for her attitudinal-and-behavioural-change organization’s efforts at setting the pace for other organisations to follow in responding to

Hollywood Actor Isaiah Washington is a veteran of Spike Lee movies. He has starred in several of his movies. He has won several awards including the NAACP Image Award for portraying Dr. Preston Burke in

AfricaNews reporter, Murtala Mohamed Kamara (photo), is among five journalists in the continent that have won euro 100 each for their contributions to Holland based news agency AfricaNews  for the month of February. Murtala was named

High Commissioner Edward Mohamed Turay has presented his credentials to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.  The traditional high-profiled ceremony took place at the prestigious Buckingham Palace in West London. “I am delighted to meet the Queen and

Doris Mudge was on the British Council’s list of landlords/ladies who were willing to take in oversea students in their homes for partial board; that included Bed and Breakfast on weekdays and full board over

The Electoral Commission of SLAJ has critically looked into the petition against the four elected SWASAL National executive members listed below and has confirmed that they hold positions in the respective sporting bodies in contravention

Lamin Vonjo Ngobeh’s election petition against my nephew Paramount Chief Mohamed Sama Kailondo Banya had been a trying time for my family. As I had written after the lower court’s decision against us, that court