The trial of former French President Jacques Chirac on charges of illegal party funding during his time as mayor of Paris has opened in his absence. A medical report said [Read more]
Two German men who disappeared in Afghanistan last month have been found dead, officials in Parwan province say. The pair vanished near the Salang Pass, north of Kabul. Both men [Read more]
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has prostate cancer which has spread to other organs, according to a leaked US diplomatic cable. The cable, published by whistle-blower site Wikileaks, cites central bank [Read more]
The Vice President Alhaji Sam Sumana has been named in the past Saturday’s shoot out in the diamondiferous district of Kono. Reports have it that the Minister of Internal Affairs, [Read more]
The perennial problem of the Sierra Leone Government always not having sufficient money for sports associations in this country to meet their international financial contributions and other obligations, has resulted [Read more]
By David Krueger Eighty-eight minutes into Sierra Leone’s African Cup of Nations game on Saturday night looked like the Stars and Pharaohs of Egypt were on their way to a [Read more]
Presidential aspirant for the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Julius Maada Bio over the weekend delivered his maiden election speech at the Unity hall at Wallace Johnson street, [Read more]
Freetown — Minister of Agriculture, Food Security and the Environment has cautioned Sierra Leoneans not to politicise the issue of agriculture if only Sierra Leone was to be developed to [Read more]
Freetown — Some aggrieved residents of Tunkia chiefdom in the Kenema district have voiced their frustration over what they described as the complete neglect by government with specific reference to [Read more]
The General Manager of the National Tourist Board (NTB) Cecil Williams has revealed that the number of people arriving at the Freetown International Airport have risen by an appreciable level. [Read more]
Just days after it was announced in Freetown that a new “National” carrier incorporated as Leone Airways will start a joint operations soon with the Nigerian based Arik Air, the [Read more]
The Intermediate and Junior Staff Secretariat Association (IJSSA) of the University of Sierra Leone (FBC, IPAM and COMAHS), yesterday held a peaceful demonstration on their various campuses in relation to [Read more]
By Betty Milton United States Ambassador, Michael Owen, yesterday toured Connaught hospital, the main referral in the country to assess the health sector with special emphasis on the work of [Read more]
Maputo, Mozambique, 2 September 2011—The Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) Michel Sidibé and Mozambique’s Minister of Youth and Sports Pedrito Caetano launched the UNAIDS [Read more]
By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong For sometime, the centre of Africa’s anarchic one-party systems, gory tyrants, brutal dictatorships, self-serving military juntas and hideous civil wars, West Africa is changing and indisputably sowing [Read more]
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