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July 2015

Sierra Leone’s Chief of Defense Staff,  Samuel Omar Williams, has made history as being the first soldier in the country to be promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General. LTG Williams was decorated by President Ernest

A dying victim of Freetown City Council Metropolitan Police brutality, Abdul Sillah, who has been in a critical medical condition after being manhandled in 2013, is reported to have started attracting pity only now from

Main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has been going in the opposite direction of what its motto, “One Country, One People” symbolizes, unity. Instead of maintaining the unity for which its motto stands, the

Alie Bangura and his petition team are closing the stable door after the horse has bolted, meaning they are taking precautions too late. It would have been wiser for them to do everything possible to

Not too long ago, two top officials of the giant Socfin Agricultural Company (SAC) in Sahn Malen, Pujehun District, came under gun attack leaving one of them wounded. Those suspected of being behind the attack

In collaboration with the Ministry of Social Welfare, Gender and Children’s Affairs and the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA), the Advocacy Movement Network (AMNET) has succeeded in banning child marriage and child initiation

The Executive Chairperson of Sierra Leone’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Mrs. Haddijatou Jallow (in photo), has informed the United Nations General Assembly that the people of Sierra Leone are increasingly experiencing the adverse effects of

Sierra Leonean International Alfred Zagalo Sankoh has started pre-Season with his new Turkish Championship side Blikesirspor who he signed for a week ago for an undisclosed fee.  The club hosted its pre season in the

Former Bursaspor striker Ibrahim Teteh Bangura say he wants to play for the Sierra Leone national side again and believes he has ‘a lot to give’ to Leone Stars. The 25 years old striker has been

On May 4, 2015 in Magburaka– Tonkolili District, North of the country, the Government of Sierra Leone launched the Social Protection Strategy and both the Social Safety Net (SSN) and the Rapid Ebola Safety Net

He was out in one of the narrow un-tarred Western area streets, playing football with some kids. He had on white sleeveless T-shirt, black joggers that stopped several inches below his knees, and blue-black Reebok

Generally, the history of maids’ recruitment to the Arab world has oftentimes been a source of misery for the maids themselves and a source of headache for Embassies to which such maids belong. Whosoever has been

Sierra Leone’s President Ernest B. Koroma will arrive in New York on Thursday to attend a high-level summit at the UN Headquarters despite a planned protest against him by Concerned Sierra Leoneans USA.  (Photo: Sitting