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Beneficiaries of a UNIDO training programme in Sierra Leone tell their stories
explains 21-year-old Malikie Kanneh. Kanneh has just completed a two-year training programme to become a mechanic. He is one of the 145 young men and women who have benefited from a UNIDO project, funded by the Government of Japan, in Kailahun and Koindu in eastern Sierra Leone, a rural area bordering with Liberia and Guinea. The project, which ran from March 2011 to September 2012, provided ...
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United African Coalition endorses Nigerian born physician for New York City Council seat
About two dozen United African Coalition (UAC) members held a press conference on the steps of Borough Hall and Courthouse Tuesday to announce the endorsement of Dr. Bola Omotosho as their candidate for City Council District 16 in Bronx, New ...
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UNDP Sierra Leone launches new website on Adobe CQ5.
UNDP in Sierra Leone joined a list of other UNDP country offices that are upgrading their online presence through UNDP'sWeb Upgrade Project, which seeks to develop high standards of online communication across UNDP."As Sierra Leone moves forward to consolidate democracy, review the constitution and continue to enhance inclusive economic growth, the new UNDP website will be a good ...
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Capital for the Future Saving and Investment in an Interdependent World
';Very long-run forecasting is a hazardous activity because the uncertainties and imponderables of life have plenty of time to intrude, and bend and buck the charted path. At the same time, to craft policy that is rooted in reason and reality, we need to peer into the future with the best information, statistics, and models that we ...
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Sierra Leone has a challenge on its hands
Sierra Leone is relatively unknown on the international stage, it is a tiny country of just 6 million people, perched on the edge of West Africa with its coastline gazing out into the Atlantic, a body of ocean that has played as important a part in the country’s history as the natural resources that have brought the state such infamy.
Sierra Leone, unfortunately, is known abroad, for those that have heard of the country, as a war-torn little state where social cohesion and everything that goes with it has collapsed entirely. World headlines in the 1990s were filled, appropriately, with stories of the civil war raging in the country at a time when the Revolutionary United Front was trying to overthrow the military dictatorship headed by Joseph Momoh. Read more
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