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September 2009

Information reaching this press says that a group of unidentified gunmen deemed to be soldiers, attacked the police stations at Waterloo on the night of Monday 21st September. This group, which is believed to be

23 year old Abubakarr Kargbo was stabbed to death by his football mate Kabba Bangura on 22nd Tuesday September 2009 at Sumaila Town in Freetown. According to an eye witness, Komrabai Kargbo Abubakarr Kargbo and Kabba

If reports reaching this press are anything to go by, then we may as well brand the Northern District of Port Loko as a rapist colony and a bastion of gross human rights violations. A

Angry Sierra Leoneans youths at the Central Law Court in the Capital Freetown on Wednesday 22 September vowed to attack the judiciary in a mass demonstration to register their dissatisfaction on the slow and dawdling

The Chairperson for the Electoral Commission in Sierra Leone, Dr. Christiana Thorpe has on Thursday 24th September, 2009 announced the conduct of Paramount Chieftaincy Election in all 149 Chiefdoms in the country. Speaking at the weekly

The creation of a national youth commission, which was one of the primary agendas of President Ernest Bai Koroma when he took the reigns of power, has finally seen a breakthrough as the National Youth

Reports' reaching this press state that the operation of the Central Government Hospital in the country, the Connaught Hospital, is in a complete deplorable and a messy state of affairs, both in terms of administration

The North American branch of the All People's Congress (APC), the governing party led by President Ernest Bai Koroma, has been in chaos for a couple of months. This seemingly ongoing power struggle between supporters

To many Sierra Leoneans, Bockarie Kortu Stevens has done a remarkable job since assuming the office of Sierra Leone's Ambassador to the USA. Whether it is in working with other well meaning Sierra Leonean organizations

He was born Alfred Thompson in 1899 and attended Andover School; he entered Magdalene college Oxford and studied Mathematics, graduating with a first class honours degree. He taught maths and geology (which he had never

The political movements of the All People's Congress (APC) in North America (NA) with the acronym APC-NA appear to be entrenched in a struggle that has a propensity to tear apart unity amidst organizers as

I first left Sierra Leone in 1995 to study in Germany, Europe. I also wanted to know more about the world outside Sierra Leone. Since then, I have visited the country once in a year.

  I read Anthony Abdul Kamara’s interview with Ambassador Stevens and what I can see is a total disservice by Ambassador Stevens to the North America branch of the APC and to the people of Sierra

Hundreds of thousands of people have attended the state funeral of Omar Bongo Ondimba, Gabon's president and Africa's longest-serving leader.The funeral in Liberville, Gabon's capital, on Tuesday was attended by about 100 people including more than a dozen

The African Union summit has opened in Libya with a call from the AU's top official to help Somalia's government. AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping said Wednesday that the situation in Somalia warrants "special attention."