SLSUC Annual Convention – Beijing

The Sierra Leone Student Union in China (SLSUC) has concluded its annual convention at the Sierra Leone Embassy in Beijing February 2010. The theme for this year’s convention was “Value Added Education in Meeting the 21st Century Needs of Sierra Leone‘. The convention was well attended by students from different parts of China. This yearly [...]

The Success and Sustainability of the Free Medical Service Scheme for Mothers and Children in Sierra Leone

Some time last year, I wrote an article advocating for the removal of user-fees from our health care system in an attempt to primarily reduce the high levels of infant and maternal mortalities as well as improving the health and well-being of all; and hence bolster our economic development. I informed my readers at the [...]

IFAD Urges Members to Strengthen Smallholder Farmers

The Rome-based International Fund for Agricultural Development IFAD ended its two-day 33rd Governing Council on February 18 with a call for more efforts to promote smallholder farmers especially women and young people in rural areas to face up to the challenges of food insecurity. A renewed appeal was also made by the 165 Member States [...]

IMC/Zain Media Awards 2010, Friday 26 February 2010

Address by Umaru Fofana, President, SLAJ” IMC/Zain Media Awards 2010, Friday 26 February 2010: Madam Chairman and Commissioners of the Independent Media Commission, Minister of Information and Communication representing His Excellency the President, other Ministers of Government, Chief Executive Officer and other staff of Zain, which I should add is the oldest surviving mobile phone [...]

Imam Sheik Issa Habiba Sesay Needs Urgent Help

Terrible disappointment is an understatement to describe the manner in which Imam Sheik Issa Habiba Sesay is being treated after a gruesome road accident enroute to Mathoir village on Thursday, February 11th, 2010 to join the community of that village in welcoming President Ernest Bai Koroma. The accident claimed the life of Imam Sesay’s younger [...]

SLPP sweeps Bo by-Election

News from the just concluded Local Council Bye Elections in Lugbu in the Bo District shows that the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has once again asserted its position in the South-eastern voter entate of the country. Sierra Express Media understands that the SLPP leads the polls with 2,100 votes; the ruling APC training [...]

NEC presents 2009 Annual Report to President Koroma

Commissioner of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Dr Christiana Thorpe, has presented the Commission’s 2009 Annual Report to President Ernest Bai Koroma at State House, for onward transmission to Parliament and the people of Sierra Leone. Presenting the report, Dr Thorpe apologized for its month’s lateness, which she said was due to the chieftaincy elections. [...]

Taylor was not part of plan to invade Salone

In the ongoing Special Court trial of  former Liberian President in the Hague, Defence Witness, Yanks Smythe concluding his four day direct examination today denied Prosecution claims that Mr. Taylor participated in a common plan to invade Sierra Leone with the aim to exploit the country’s resources. After the announcement of representations by the parties, [...]

How Sierra Leone could have lost richest Forest Reserve

Reports reaching Sierra Express Media reveal that between 2005 and 2007 two mining licenses were issued for diamond and iron ore prospecting in the Gola Forest Reserve in south-eastern Sierra Leone. The licenses were granted even though the area was a proposed national park. It is likely that the allocation of the licenses contravened Sierra [...]

Ayo Johnson – United Nations Radio – Corruption in Sierra Leone

Ayo Johnson Speaks to Claudia Anthony ( Award winning Journalist ) and Ibrahim Ben Kargbo (Sierra Leone’s Minister of Information and Broadcasting) on the importance of battling corruption in West Africa. Video - Part 1 – President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone gets tough with corruption    Video - Part 2 – President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra [...]

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