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Date Line Saudi Arabia: Who says President Koroma is a weak leader?

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When he hosted a meeting last week in what his Press Secretary describes as “in an extraordinarily tough and uncompromising tone, President Ernest Bai Koroma today decried the behaviour and actions of virtually all the ministries and other institutions in charge of law-enforcement in Sierra Leone,”  President Koroma’s stance was received with mixed feelings from [...]


Agricultural boom and food self sufficiency in Sierra Leone

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Food security via a turnaround in agricultural production remains topmost in the Ernest Koroma led government. Indeed, there seems to be light at the end of the proverbial tunnel as the signals are beginning to show that Sierra Leone may once more get back to the days when it did not only produce enough for [...]


German Doctors head for Sierra Leone

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Three pediatric surgeons from Germany will visit Sierra Leone, to offer free medical services for children with specific condition requiring pediatric surgical expertise.
Dr. T Gresing, a consultant pediatric surgeon and Head of Department at Pediatric Surgery at the Evangelical Hospital in Lippstadt Germany, Dr El- Naieb, also a consultant in private practice, and Sierra Leonean [...]


Sierra Update goes online March

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By March this year, SIERRA Update news magazine published by the Public Information Unit of the Sierra Leone High Commission in the United Kingdom, will go online.
This means millions of people including thousands of Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora would now be able to follow-up developments back home in Sierra Leone.
The online edition of SIERRA [...]


Focus on Sierra Leone

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“I have noticed a positive trend in terms of establishing and operating a business in Sierra Leone,” adds Gaiva Lavaly, managing director of International Consulting Services, a Sierra Leonean engineering firm, who says that the commissioning of the Bumbuna Dam has significantly improved the business landscape.
“The previous regime did a lot of legislative framework in [...]


Election of Dr. Bingu Wa Mutharika, President of Malawi, as Chairperson of the AU

The United States congratulates Dr. Bingu Wa Mutharika, President of Malawi, on his election by the African Union General Assembly to serve as Chairperson of the African Union (AU) and looks forward to continuing our partnership with the AU to promote peace, prosperity, and security for all Africans. We share Chairperson Mutharika’s goals of ending [...]


Observance of National Freedom Day

This day marks the 145th anniversary of President Lincoln’s sending to the States for ratification the 13th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which promised freedom from slavery and involuntary servitude. In commemorating this day, it is a privilege to honor the sacrifices of those who lived and died in chattel slavery, those [...]


What absolute trash – supplement

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His Excellency the President will visit a number of chiefdoms during his two-day official visit to Kailahun district, including the Kissi Teng chiefdom where he is expected to address the people.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Local Government has recently completed Paramount chieftaincy elections to fill vacancies in all chiefdoms except in Kissi Teng.
As has [...]




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