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Thursday 11th March, 2010

  • Slpp Storm The Heart Of Bombali

    Sierra Express Media

    Sierra Leone People Party’s (SLPP), the leading opposition GOP in Sierra Leone has received a thunderous welcome from residents of Rokula, Sanda Tendaren, Sanda Magbolonto and Gbanti Kamaranka Chief...

  • Urgent Need For A Robust Outreach Program As Sierra Leoneans Give Mixed Reactions To Charles Taylor’s Trial

    Sierra Express Media

    Sierra Leoneans say they are losing interest in the Charles Taylor trial because it is taking too long and they are not getting enough information about the high profile case that is taking place half...

  • Analysis: African Cocoa Grinders Counting On Global Upturn

    Business Report

    Submit your comment Industry moves to process more cocoa beans in Africa are being held back by local obstacles and weak global demand, but grinders are pursuing the strategy in the belief it will yie...

  • Saudi Arabia: Sierra Leonean Joins 500 in Scientific Conference

    Sierra Express Media

    A Sierra Leonean doctoral student in the Islamic University of Medinah has joined over 500 qualified students out 5,000 across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in a four-day scientific conference for highe...

  • VP Sam-Sumana Brings the Rebranding of Sierra Leone Message to Italy

    Sierra Express Media

    Vice President Alhaji Samuel Sam-Sumana on Monday March 8 ended a week-long visit to Italy to further strengthen bilateral relations in the areas of energy, water, health, trade and investment. This i...

  • President Ernest Bai Koroma Arrives in Nigeria Again

    Sierra Express Media

    President Ernest Bai Koroma has arrived in the Federal Republic of Nigeria Tuesday March 9th to join his Colleague Presidents in a bid to endorse the initiative for the development of Agribusiness and...

  • Bumbuna residents cry over Bumbuna light!

    Sierra Express Media

    Residents of Bumbuna Town in the northern part of Sierra Leone, Tonkolili District have expressed dismay over the long-awaited Bumbuna hydro-electric dam. It could be recalled that this project has ta...

  • Wilberforce Man Commits Suicide, Son Finds Body

    Sierra Express Media

    A local businessman and father of three, Ibrahim Jalloh of 46 Regent Road Wilberforce, was found dead in his home Tuesday afternoon hanging from a rope. The Fullah man in his mid 40s and who owned a s...

  • Point of Correction SLPP

    Sierra Express Media

    I was shocked and very reluctant to receive the news that members of the SLPP will go as far as attacking journalists and beat them in a manner that is never acceptable. That is a kind of action that...

  • Black is the New Green: Marketing to Affluent African Americans

    Earth Times

    www.blackisthenewgreenthebook.com ), the exciting new book by Leonard E. Burnett Jr. and Andrea Hoffman (publication date 3/16/10) teaches readers how to best target the $87.3 billion buying power of ...

  • African cotton production in "crisis," association says

    Yahoo!7 News

    cotton production in Africa over five years, the African Cotton Association announced Wednesday, saying the sector faced an "acute crisis."The price drop along with soaring costs for

  • Researcher Finds First Inherited Prostate Cancer Genetic Mutation In African-American Men

    RedOrbit

    Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 12:07 CST Shahriar Koochekpour, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Genetics at LSU Health Scie...

  • Deforestation Reveals African Impact Crater

    RedOrbit

    Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 11:20 CST Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has unveiled what could be one of the largest impact craters discovered over the past 10 years...

  • Water Crisis Hits New England Community

    Sierra Express Media

    New England Ville, located at the central west of Freetown, that has more than 40,000 people residing in the community are experiencing a serious water crisis said the youth chairman Mathew Bangalie ...

  • First Inherited Prostate Cancer Genetic Mutation in African-American Men Identified

    Science Daily

    — Shahriar Koochekpour, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and Genetics at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, led research that ...

  • African cotton production in "crisis," association says

    Breitbart

    A sharp drop in world prices has almost halved cotton production in Africa over five years, the African Cotton Association announced Wednesday, saying the sector faced an "acute crisis." The price ...

  • Sheikh Tantawi, Egypt’s top cleric dies aged 81

    Sierra Express Media

    (Photo: Sheikh Tantawi has died suddenly of a suspected heart attack) Sheikh Tantawi was the Grand Imam of the al-Azhar mosque and head of the al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam’s centre of learn...

  • Cel-Sci gets South African marketing payment

    Business Journal

    Cel-Sci Corp. says it has received a $125,000 payment from Byron Biopharma as part of a deal that gives Byron marketing and distribution rights to Cel-Sci's lead drug candidate in South Africa. T...

  • Boundless Hope in Sierra Leone

    World Press Review

    The need to educate children in Sierra Leone is urgent and monumental. In some cases, teaching takes place in makeshift tents and rundown buildings without doors or windows. Boundless Hope is a young ...

  • Guinea Making Steps toward Democracy

    World Press Review

    The germination of democracy in the Republic of Guinea has been a pipedream for its tenacious and resilient 10 million people. Historically, Guinea has lacked transparency or accessibility to the inte...

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