FREETOWN – The Commander-In-Chief (CIC) of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), President Ernest Bai Koroma launched the Poppy Week 2013 in Freetown last week. During a special [Read more]
Al-Shabaab, or "The Youth," is an al-Qaeda-linked militant group and a U.S. designated Foreign Terrorist Organization fighting for the creation of a fundamentalist Islamic state in Somalia. The group, also [Read more]
Did you watch the last National Democratic Convention before the last term of Barack Obama’s re-election? It was pulsating, electrifying and magnetic. To most political pundits and commentators, the message [Read more]
Intentions, even the best of them, do not necessarily guarantee success. As our politics continues to thrive on the thickening stench of falsehood, the unintended consequences of spin as [Read more]
Sierra Leone’s President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has congratulated the 916 Sierra Leone pilgrims that are currently in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the successful completion of their pilgrimage. [Read more]
On his maiden international trip to the United Kingdom which has been a diplomatic success, the chairman of the SLPP made the statement at a jam-packed social evening event organised [Read more]
Sierra Leonean students from Madinah and Riyadh have arrived in the Holy City of Mecca to help the pilgrims from Sierra Leone. Mohamed Sahid Badamasi is the Secretary General [Read more]
With only a few days remaining for the start of the annual pilgrimage of Hajj, the Sierra Leone Hajj Team to Saudi Arabia led by Moijueh KaiKai who is also [Read more]
In a newspaper article written by Mr. Abdul Fonti (thenewpeople.com, 06/10/13), the author questions whether the President, Dr. Bai Ernest Koroma was becoming a DICTATOR. According to the article, “President [Read more]
The season for Muslims to undertake the pilgrimage (Hajj) here in Mecca, one of the five pillars of Islam, is here again. And Muslims from Sierra Leone have not been [Read more]
While, Sierra Leone Minister of Information and Communications Alhaji Alpha Kanu and Senior Government officials were engaged at a Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Town Hall Meeting recently in Maryland, Minister [Read more]
Epigraph: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for [Read more]
Sixteen people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed shortly after takeoff outside Lagos airport’s domestic terminal on Thursday, Nigerian authorities said. The aircraft, operated by Nigeria’s Associated Airlines, [Read more]
RESS RELEASE Report explores challenges and opportunities of growth in a fragile state TUNIS, Tunisia, October 3, 2013/ — In response to a request for technical support from the Government [Read more]
Nearly five Hundred Africa’s crème de la crème from the continent, United States of America and the Diaspora including Heads of State and Government, Ministers, Ambassadors and friends of Africa [Read more]
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