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 8 May, 2008
Adeyemi Paul, USA
Don’t
Blame the Government: It’s a World Economic Crisis
I was one of the people who used to point a finger at the president on the economic crisis in Sierra Leone.
However, on my recent travels through Europe and the USA, I had many discussions with individuals from different countries
and listened to various news sources saying the same thing about their country’s economic situation. (Read more ...)
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8
May, 2008
Abu-Bakarr S Tarawally
Ban on Cross Country Trade is Abysmal
Inter-trade enhances
exchange of commodities and income. The
fact that African economies are static, calls for an exchange of common goods trade within neighboring countries. The inter-trade has been of importance over the years following
the days of the conflict in Sierra Leone. (Read more ...)
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May, 2008 Zainu Bassie, Freetown
Food
Prices Continue to Rise in Sierra Leone
There is increasing fear that hunger has now worsened
in Sierra Leone as basic prices of food stuffs across the country continue to escalate on a daily basis and this is causing
serious problems in homes as most people cannot afford the money to buy enough food to feed their dependants well. (Read more ...)
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7 May, 2008
Sierra Express
African Internet Radio (AIR)
African Internet Radio (A.I.R.) - formerly Sierra Leone Radio - the world's first online radio station dedicated to spreading the wide range of Sierra Leonean music to a global audience - announces a massive leap in audience listening figures for the first quarter of
2008. AIR has been bringing a wide variety
of music from Sierra Leone and the rest of Africa to over 20,000
listeners every month - and is now rated as the second most popular
African orientated online station on the popular iTunes radio directory. (Read more ...)
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3 May, 2008
World
Press Freedom Day
World Press Freedom Day is celebrated on 3 May. It is a day to honour the individual journalists
who have risked their lives in helping vindicate the right to a free press in their country. It is a day to celebrate progress
made in securing recognition to the right to a free press, which is inextricably connected with other rights such as free
speech and democratic governance. It is also a day to galvanize civil society to more actively form coalitions and apply needed
pressure to support reform. (Read more ...)
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2 May, 2008 Alhassan Deen Kamara, Freetown
New England Residents Demand Improved
Roads and Water Dam
Residents of the New England Ville in Freetown have expressed concern over the dilapidated conditions of their
roads and lack of clean and pure water. A community activist, Mathieu Bangalie, has told Sierra Express that frantic efforts were been made
to draw the attention of the past Government to these problems but nothing positive was done to alleviate them. (Read more ...)
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2
May, 2008 Sierra Express
Acha
Boys Beat Journalist
This paper's Northern Province Correspondent, Alhassan Sheriff was a victim of police brutality from the
hands of the police in Kambia, when on Saturday, April 26 this year, the Local Unit Commander of the Kambia Police Station,
Superintendent of Police, Foday Conteh, ordered his junior officers to arrest him and beat him up. (Read more ...)
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2
May, 2008 Alhassan Deen Kamara, Freetown
Cabinet Secretary in Land Battle
The New England Development Organization are now engaged
in an open fight with the Secretary to the Cabinet who is now making preparations to put up a building on a land called Madiana,
which the community had reserved for fetching safe drinking water. (Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Alhassan Sheriff, Kambia
APC gets New Name
The All Peoples Congress
Party symbol has been given a new name in Kambia, 'Gbalkanasi', a Temne word which means the APC can give you a symbol
today and withdraw it from you tomorrow and give it to someone else of their choice. (Read more ...)
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 29 April, 2008
Will APC Survive Five Years?
Perhaps one of the gifts of the writer is his ability to look at events taking place and like a clairvoyant,
predict the future. The events
taking place in our country since President Ernest Bai Koroma was sworn in on September 17 last year continue to be worrisome
and from all indications they do not seem to be abating, rather they seem to be progressing at an alarming rate (Read more ...)
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 29 April, 2008
Al-Hassan Deen Kamara, Freetown
Big Catch
The negotiations have been very long and windy; one big problem being
that the fellow had been so always difficult to put down. Normally highly gifted men are always restless as the power in them keeps them constantly on the move. (Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Salmatta Salaam-Coker, Monrovia, Libera
Sierra Leonean Journalists Commence Training in Liberia
15 Sierra Leonean journalists are presently undergoing a
three-day training on reporting the trial of Charles Taylor at the Crystal Oceanview Hotel, Mamba point in Monrovia, Liberia.
Making his opening remarks Liberian
Information Minister Dr. Lawrence Bropleh said the training is an expensive venture but it is necessary as the issue is critical.
(Read more ...)
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26 April, 2008 Salmatta Salaam-Coker, Monrovia, Libera
"Taylor was Secretly Indicted" says Counselor Supuwood
A member in the defense team in Liberia on the Charles Taylor trial said the former president of Liberia
Charles Taylor was secretly indicted by the Special Court. (Read more ...)
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26 April, 2008 Salmatta Salaam-Coker, Monrovia, Libera
Charles Taylor Website
Project Begins
The “Charles Taylor Website” project has commenced to enable those interested in the trial to
be properly informed. The website
is being funded by the Open Society Justice Initiative and the Open Society Initiative. (Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Salmatta Salaam-Coker, Monrovia, Libera
“The Media Should Not Determine that Charles Taylor is guilty” Liberian Information Minister says
The
Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Lawrence Bropleh has informed journalists that they should not determine
the outcome of Charles Taylor trial. He
made this statement at a three-day training for journalists on the reporting of Charles Taylor at the Crystal Ocean view hotel,
Mamba point in Monrovia Liberia (Read more ...)
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26
April, 2008 Adolphus Williams
Reporting from the Court Room in The Hague
Prosecution 23rd Witness Almamy B Sesay under Cross
Examination
Charles
Taylor`s lawyers in the 4-month-old war crimes trial of the Ex-Liberian President have rejected a prosecution witness testimony
suggesting the meeting between the AFRC delegation and Taylor in 1999 in Monrovia was part of Taylor`s secret connection with
the rebels. (Read more ...)
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25 April, 2008 Sierra Express
APC Crippled in Kambia
Reports
from Kambia indicate that the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) is in turmoil following the youths’ protest detesting
what they refer to as the excesses of the regime. Our reporter in Kambia said the youths are disheartened by the imposition of Councillor Samuel Sankoh, as
acting District Chairman on them. (Read more ...)
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25 April, 2008 Sierra Express
The Kono Fracas: Ernest Must Bite
The
recent upheavals in the Kono district where youths went on the rampage destroying life and property because some high placed
politicians reneged on their campaign promises is not an issue that one can just sweep under the carpet, (Read more ...)
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24 April, 2008 Zainu Bassie, Bunce Island
Bunce Island to become Tourist Spot
A good number of African
Americans are believed to have come from Sierra Leone, especially from Bunce Island after DNA results revealed that majority
of the black community in South Carolina and Atlanta are descendants of Sierra Leoneans (Read more ...)
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24 April, 2008 Sierra Express
Express Voice of APC and Impositions
The recent
antics of the APC high command to impose on the Fullah community in Kabala a tribal headman did not come as a surprise to
some of us who are very conversant with the APC stock in trade (Read more ...)
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24 April, 2008 Sierra Express Kambia District Medical Officer Demands Transfer The District
Medical Officer of the Kambia Government Hospital, Dr. Labor Kargbo has demanded his withdrawal from the Kambia District because
the district is not lucrative making it very difficult for him to even make ends meet, sources close to him say. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your
trusted place in news!
22
April, 2008 Sierra Express
Set Back For SLPP
The opposition SLPP is faced with another set back in its Eastern stronghold, Kenema as the main popular
Independent candidate Mr. J.S. Kelfala poised to capture the mayoral seat in Kenema city has broken away from the parent party.
(Read more ...)
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22 April, 2008 Adeyemi
Paul, Freetown Why Pick on the Acting Headmaster of the Blind School? Why can't
we learn to give credit to people who deserve it? His Excellency the President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma keeps stressing on attitudinal
change but Sierra Leoneans are yet still not getting the point right. I guess, we should be hailing Mr. Sandy, rather than
nailing him down (Read more ...) Stay with
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April, 2008 Sierra
Express Magistrate Deen Tarawally Receives Rousing Welcome Court
sessions came to a standstill last week when Magistrate Deen Tarawally returned to Law Court building in Freetown to work
again. People came to have
a glance at the no nonsense magistrate who has always been careful to ensure justice prevails. (Read more ...)
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21 April, 2008 Raymond
Bai Kamara IG Acha Kamara Maligned “The
Inspector General of Police, Mr. Brima Acha Kamara is a man of principle and good repetition,” this was said by the
Police Media Director, Inspector Ibrahim Samura. He was speaking to various members of the media on Friday at the Police Headquarters
concerning a publication that was published by the Spectator Newspaper on Thursday 10th April 2008, captioned BIG SYNDICATE
EXPOSED!!! IG IN FRAUD SCAM and in the Exclusive Newspaper of Friday 11th April 2008 with the caption ACHA IN BIG SCAM (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 Sierra Express
APC Parliamentarian May Split Wellington
The supporters of the All Peoples’ Congress Party (APC) at Wellington are
prepared to disappoint their parliamentary representative Hon. Victoria Saidu Kamara. and support Mohamed Tholley as an independent
candidate if the latter does not get the APC party symbol for the local council elections. (Read more ...)
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21 April, 2008 Sierra Express
Blind School Acting Head Master Denied Allegations
The Acting Headmaster
of Milton Margai School for the Blind, Mr. A. J. Sandy, has denied allegations made against him that he has been misappropriating
school funds and stated it is a machinated plot to pull him down. “This is the real picture of nowadays Sierra Leoneans.
It is as if after the war, Sierra Leoneans have embarked on destroying fellow Sierra Leoneans by deliberately fabricating
fictitious information on patriots,” the acting Head Master said (Read more ...)
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21 April, 2008 Sierra Express People of Kaffu Bullom Present Applicant for General Manager Airport Authority Kaffu
Bullom United, an organization headed by Pa Alimamy Kafoir, past Saturday visited the Minister of Transport and Aviation,
Hon. Kemoh Sesay, to present the person they want to be the General Manager of the Airport Authority (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in
news!
 19 April, 2008
Sierra Express, Moyamba
Moyamba Cold Room
Contract - Musa Tarawally to be Indicted
The Minister of Presidential Affairs - South, Hon. Musa Tarawally, has been required by residents of Moyamba to fully explain
the status of a contract that was awarded to him to construct Cold Room for Fishing for the Moyamba community. (Read more ...)
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19
April, 2008 A. Baron Ansu Foreign Investors Assured In Tongo The newly
elected Diamond Dealers chairman, Ibrahim Sorie Samura, has declared Tongo field an investor friendly haven. This
assurance was given in the wake of persistent complaints by investors of controversies on diamond transactions. "It
is of great concern to my executive to curb all forms of illicit transactions that is eroding the reputation of dealers in
the mining industry" Samura said. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
18
April, 2008 Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden Awareness Times, Freetown SLPP Leaders
Should Quit Now! I have known Honourable Ibrahim Bundu (aka Bo School) of the ruling All Peoples'
Congress (APC) for over ten years now. He is quiet and does not much like the limelight. He prefers to operate from the background, but make no mistake
about his political skills. (Read more ...)
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17
April, 2008 Alhassan B. Sheriff, Kambia Customs Collector Warns
Traders The senior customs collector at the Gbalamuya/Pamalap; the Sierra Leone Guinea
boarder in the Kambia district, Mr. Jinnah James has cautioned traders not to evade the customs department (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) Making Renewable
Energy Markets Work for Africa International Conference An International Conference
on Renewable Energy in Africa, will open in Dakar, Senegal on 16 April 2008. The three-day conference entitled
"Making Renewable Energy Markets Work for Africa - Policies, Industries and Finance for Scaling-Up" is jointly organized
by the Government of Senegal, the African Union, the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) commissioned by the German Federal
Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
17
April, 2008 Sierra Express, Freetown Management Crisis at Lungi International Airport Since
Mr. Donald Bull left, there has been a serious struggle for power at the Lungi Airport Authority. This has made the airport
anarchistic and slowly becoming nasty. It
is like a challenge to the workers and every one wants to show the extent at which he/she is connected. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
17
April, 2008 Salmatta Salaam-Coker Fifty Sierra Leonean and Liberian Journalists to undergo
International Training Fifty Sierra Leonean and Liberian Journalists will be undergoing
a three-day International training in Monrovia, Liberia. The exercise is organized by the United Kingdom Legal Community Charity, Advocates for
International Development, in collaboration with a West Africa Media Rights group, (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
17
April, 2008 Sierra Express, Freetown Police, Traffic Warden Harassment - Drivers Strike Drivers
in the Western Area last Monday went on a sit-down strike in protest to treatment meted out to them by Traffic Wardens and
the Police, which brought traffic in the city to a standstill. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
17
April, 2008 Sierra Express, Freetown Finance Ministry Signs UNDP Country Programme Action Plan The Ministry
of Finance and Economic Development, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) office, has signed
the UNDP’s Ccountry Programme Action Plan (CPAP) at the Ministry’s conference room at the Youyi Building in Freetown
(Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
17
April, 2008 Adolphus Williams, The Hague Charles Taylor’s
Trial in The Hague TF1-516 said Taylor instructed RUF forces to attack the position of the Liberians
United for Reconciliation and Democracy, LURD rebels in Voinjama, after they invaded Liberia in 1999. The witness told the court, RUF Former Frontline Commander,
Sam Buckarie led one batch of the RUF forces in countering Sekou Konnehs LURD (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 Raymond Bai Kamara, Freetown Container Manager and Four
Others in Police Net Sources reaching Sierra Express Media on Friday 11th April revealed that the
container manager Brima Kamara, and four others were invited by the Deputy Inspector General of Police to make statements.
(Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Murtala Mohamed Kamara, Liberia, Monrovia Liberian
Immigration Boss Appeals to Sierra Leone Authorities A very senior official of the Liberian Immigrations Authority,
stationed at the Jendema border crossing, told AfricaNews in an exclusive interview, urging the Sierra Leone authorities to
reduce the high tariff imposed on getting proper documentations for the Liberian/Sierra Leone border crossing point. (Read more ...)
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 14 April, 2008
Zainu Bassie, Freetown Youths to Get Jobs Soon The Employment
and Social Security Minister, Mr. Minkailu Mansaray, whilst speaking at the Youyi Building weekly press briefing, stated that
his ministry will soon create more job opportunities for youths in the country (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
14
April, 2008 Sierra Express, Freetown Ward Community Commend Nat Lamin For Chairmanship The Western
Area Rural District councilors and community elders have commended aspirant councilor Mr. Nathaniel Gibril Lamin for the Council
chairmanship in the forthcoming rural district elections. (Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Sierra Express, Freetown Tussle for APC Symbol Headmaster
M.S. Bangura of the Kankaylay Islamic Primary School, Cole Town Lumpa/Waterloo, has been implicated in alleged corruption
matters. Bangura is to contest for the councillorship in Ward 342 - constituency 95 and lobbying for the APC symbol. (Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Sierra Express, Freetown
Saturday Cleaning has been Suspended until
Further Notice
Deputy Internal Affairs, Minister Hon. Raymond Kabia has said that the last Saturday cleaning exercise has been suspended
until further notice at the Ministry of Information conference room yesterday. Mr. Kabia said the suspension of the cleaning exercise was as a result of the
lack of funds. (Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Sierra Express, Freetown Protest against Acting Chairman of Council The three
aspirants for the Chairmanship of the Western Area Rural District Council, namely Mr. Nat Lamin, Councilor Abu Bakarr Bangura,
Mr. Moses Y. Conteh and the community elders, are protesting against the imposition of a candidate of the western area rural
district council (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in
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12 April, 2008
Sierra Express, Freetown
NPA
outlines 10 Teams for Effective Management of Electricity
The National Power
Authority (NPA) management has outlined 10 new teams, otherwise known as committees, that will be responsible to carry out
the functions of the entity for effective delivery of services from time to time. (Read more ...)
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10 April, 2008
Sheka
Tarawalie, Presidential Press Secretary
Ocean Bay Hotel, Banjul, The Gambia
PRESIDENT KOROMA RECEIVES 'BEST WELCOME' IN THE GAMBIA
President Ernest Bai Koroma and
entourage arrived in The Gambian capital of Banjul this afternoon to "the best welcome" ever. On a three-day visit
to the country following an invitation from host President Yahyah Jammeh, President Koroma was met by thousands of people,
including Gambian government ministers, diplomats and Sierra Leoneans resident in the Gambia. (Read more ...)
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 9 April, 2008
Isata Lebbie/ Kai Samba Mercury International
Donates to the Aged Mercury
International over the weekend donated a cheque of Five Million Leones to Sierra Leone Society for the Aged. Making presentation of the cheque to the matron, Mrs. Genevieve
Coker, the Board Chairman Mercury International, popular businessman Samir Hasanyeh stated that the company was set up in
2007. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
9 April, 2008 Raymond
Bai-Kamara Ahead Of Local Council Election July 5th Constituency 97 Denounce One Candidate for Alleged
Money Scandal The Executive and entire membership of Constituency 97 Youth Development Organization
has condemned Mr. Mohamed J. Tholley as an aspirant for APC symbol for Ward 350. According to the youth chairman, Sheka Kargbo the said candidate is facing
problems with the constituency Executive and Hon. Victoria Saidu Kamara of that constituency over alleged money scam. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
 9 April, 2008
Raymond Bai-Kamara Edward Mohamed Sesay Declares for Councillorship in Constituency 97 Ward
350 “We can do it if only all hands are put on deck for the development and
betterment of the constituency, the sky’s our limit.” This is according to the Chairman of the Wellington Muslim
Association (WMA) and also Chairman of the Action Aid Wellington Development Organisation Mr. Edward Mohamed Sesay, (Read more ...)
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9 April, 2008 Abdul Sheriff, Freetown APC Aspirant Councilor
for Ward 343 Speaks Out As Local Government Elections are very close in Ward 343 in Constituency 95
in Koya Rural District, aspirant Councilor Rev. Moses Sheku Sesay of Kissi Town of former Waterloo displaced camp has been
dilating on. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 Gbanka Potho Jr. Establishment Secretary Defies Minister According
to reports reaching the Sierra Express Media, the Deputy Establishment Secretary, one Mr. Sandy, the Secretary - Mrs. Cummings,
and Mr. Mansaray, all of the Information Ministry have defied orders that Mr. Anthony Bai Kamara, whose salary has been allegedly
chopped by senior officials since January 2004 should be reinstated. (Read more ...) Stay
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April, 2008 Courtesy of Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu Vice-President
Sumana makes Passionate Plea to Diasporans to Return Home to Help Rebuild Sa.Leone Sierra
Leone's Vice-President, His Excellency Samuel Sam -Sumana, yesterday
made a passionate plea to Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora to return home and help the new All People's Congress (APC)
government change the face of Sierra Leone. Addressing
a thrilling town meeting at the Imperial Hotel Hall in Somerset, New Jersey last evening, the Vice-President said that Sierra
Leone had enormous potentials for growth and development (Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Courtesy of Wilfred Leeroy Kabs-Kanu After listening to Vice-President Sam Sumana , Sierra Leoneans
say Country is in Good Hands Yesterday's town meeting in New Jersey gave many Sierra
Leoneans the opportunity to meet the Sierra Leonean Vice-President, Chief Sam Sumana in a closed session for the first time
and for once they were able to make their own independent assessments of the man thrust with the responsibility to work
with President Ernest Koroma to create a new Sierra Leone. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 Murtala Mohamed Kamara Climate Change Affects Sierra Leone: Dr. Kpaka Kalu
WHO Representative Speaking at a news conference on April 3rd, the World Health Organization (WHO)
representative, Dr. Kpaka Kalu, announced that the 7th of April would be commemorated as World Health Day and would be commemorated
with the theme: Protecting Health from Climate Change. Dr. Kalu said climate change is a serious global issue that is claiming
many lives every year. He said that the atmosphere is getting warmer every minute. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 Alhassan B. Sheriff Bomb Diffused at Gbalamuya Border A bomb
that was recently discovered at Gbalamuya, very close to the Sierra Leone/Guinea border was diffused last week by Sierra Leone
Military personnel, (Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Alhassan B. Sheriff Kambia plea for Security Attention Reports
from Kambia indicate that there has been a rampant spate of robberies. In a place called Kambia Checkpoint, there have been
daily robberies of at least two robberies every day. The Local Unit Commander (LUC), Mustapha Kamara speaking to Sierra
Express in Kambia, said that the police in this area are having severe accommodation problems. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 Alhassan B. Sheriff, Kambia Teaching Not Effective in
Kambia Parents in Kambia Town have complained to Sierra Express that effective
learning is not taking place in the schools. The parents when talking to our Kambia reporter (stringer) said that they (the
parents) are sick and tired of the reckless attitude of some teachers in that part of the country. (Read more ...)
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April, 2008 Raymond Bai Kamara, Koinadugu District NaCSA To Account for Le
240 Million A report from Koinadugu District is indicating that the sum of Le 240 Million
funds for the construction of a community school at Yirayah Chiefdom has allegedly been misappropriated. According to the Chiefdom speaker, Thomas Marrah, the said
money was donated to the community by a foreign agency, sometime in January 2002. He said NaCSA was contracted to implement
the building project. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 Salmatta Salaam Coker, Freetown FBC Encourages Media to
Dialogue with Government At the opening of a three day workshop on enhancing accountability through
interaction at Jarvouhey house, on Tuesday 1st April, 2008, the Director of the Institute of Library Information and Communication
Studies (INSLICS) at Fourah Bay College (FBC) said that modalities are being fetched for the media and civil society to dialogue
with the government for the improvement of the lives of the populace. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 Alhassan Deen Kamara, Freetown National Diamond Dealers
Association Comply With Government Regulations An indigenous diamond dealers association, The National Diamond
Dealers Association, has complied with the government’s regulations by securing a headquarter office at 28 Goderich
Street, Freetown. The purpose is to fulfill government’s conditions in order to make the association able to work (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
 4 April, 2008
IIyasa Baa, Freetown MRU Peace
and Reconciliation Campaign To Hit Freetown Arts Tradi-Control Production, an Ivorian Training Institution,
is currently in Freetown trying to seek ways to organize a Mano River Union (MRU) Peace and Reconciliation Campaign. The Campaign
is due to commence in Freetown on 11th and 12th May 2008, and end in Abidjan (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 Sierra Express PTN Services Rehabilitate Adelaide Police Station A patriotic
Sierra Leonean, P.T. Nimneh, owner of PTN Services, has completed refurbishing the Western Police station which was badly
damaged by irate youths during a student riot in 2004. The contractor in his statement, in spite of financial support to the station, said much praise should always
be given to the workers on the ground that did the work for him. (Read more ...) Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!
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April, 2008 Abu Bakarr S. Tarawally Red Cross enrolls 36 Nurses Thirty-six
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