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Airtel rewards Top up Sellers
Airtel Sierra Leone has launched a-three month promotion dubbed ‘Beteh don cam’ aimed at rewarding their retail partners across the country. Launching the promotion at the Airtel Customer Care Shop at Rawdon Street in Freetown, the Head of Sales at Airtel, Lynfroyed Macaulay said the promotion is to reward retailers of Airtel products in various communities across the country. The ...
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Peace Corps mission a lifelong goal
Ann Davies is making in lifelong dream come true today when she leaves for Sierra Leone, Africa on a two-year mission for the Peace Corps."I always told myself in the back of my head that I would join the Peace Corps," Davies said.She will be a science education teacher for seventh through high school students. After a training period she could be teaching classes as large as 60 to 120 ...
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Liberia Monrovia Its Environs Dirty - Lawmakers Concerned
Robust Media reports on the issue of poor sanitation in Monrovia and its environs by the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Reporters & Editors Network of Liberia (WASH R&E) have claimed the attention of the Liberian Senate. WASH R&E is presently engaged in series of media activities on the filthiness of Monrovia and surrounding communities, as huge pile of garbage can be seen ...
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Liberia Ellen-Obama Things Fall Apart Mt. Wologizi Deal Sealed As Jindal Rolls Sleeves to Come
In the midst of rolling protest noise from citizens of Lofa County and the general public over the sale of the Wologizi Mountain in Lofa, the country's largest iron ore reserve, insiders told The Informer Thursday that the deal has been sealed between the Government of Liberia and the Indian company Jinda Steel. Both the National Investment Commission and the Ministry of Lands Mines and ...
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Liberia Ellen Boakai Meet With Make Group Delegation From South Korea
A delegation of the Make Group, a South Korean-based investment company specializing in Africa's development, paid a courtesy call on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at her Foreign Ministry office in Monrovia on Thursday, June 13. Also present was Vice President Joseph N. Boakai, Sr. Members of the high-powered delegation included James Juhee Han, Chairman and Proprietor; Jungsuk Ryou, ...
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Liberia World Bank to Strengthen Energy Sector
The World Bank has offered to go extra miles to strengthen Liberia's energy sector to buttress the government's excellent performance which has ranked her as number one among African States, who poverty rate has fallen to 1.3 percent. Presiding over the Ministry of Information's regular Thursday press briefing at the Ministry yesterday, Minister Lewis G. Brown said Liberia has ...
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Liberia Mued Statement Against CBL Governor Rebuffed
A consortium of rights group in the country says its attention has been drawn to recent statements made by the Executive Director for Media United to Enhance Democracy, Ralph Brown, claiming that all of the various groupings that attended the funeral of the mother of the Central Bank of Liberia Governor, Dr. Mill Jones were paid US$250.00 each in order to attend such funeral, and that the ...
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Apc Laugh Ha Ha Ha ...Slpp Cry Woooo
"For not mentioning Honest Bai Koblo in the petition; the court therefore has no (locus standi) jurisdiction to hear the petition and we hereby kick it out of this court with trenk...gboas!!!" Oh yah, this was the sad end to that marathon case brought by the Serious Lions Prefer Palaver (SLPP) against All Pussy Cats (APC) party and NECK?! Fambul dem will recall that when the November ...
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Liberia Liberians Running out of Patience -Says CDC Junks Wologisi Plant Demands Reforms
Liberians erected, upon a platform of more than a decade of death and devastation, an epitaph of civil rule in 2005 – based on an all-inclusive multiparty democracy – and reinforced it in 2011. Multiparty democracy promises collective rule and collective responsibility. This is why by instituting it Liberians had hoped their elected officials would work together to resuscitate their ...
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Sierra-Leone Probes Claims of Kano Weapons Suspect
The Sierra Leonean High Commission in Nigeria has disassociated its home government from any form of violence against Nigeria as it investigates claims of Sierra Leonean citizenship by a suspect linked to the weapons warehouse in Kano. In a letter to the Nigerian Foreign Affairs Ministry the High Commission said; "While we continue to vigorously investigate the claim to Sierra Leonean ...
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Liberia CDC Wants Rep. Forh Out
The special committee set up by the Congress for Democratic Change to investigate Montserrado County Electoral District #16 Representative Edward Forh for his alleged bribery solicitation scandal with former Montserrado County Supt. Grace Kpaan has recommended Forh's expulsion from the party. In its findings submitted to the National Vice Chairman for Operations, Mulbah Morlu, the ...
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Liberia Liberia Makes First Appearance At G-8 Summit
Liberia will today make its first ever appearance at a Group of Eight (G-8) nation's summit, thanks to an invitation extended to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by British Prime Minister David Cameron. President Sirleaf who departed the country Sunday will participate, in a luncheon meeting of the G8 Summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland. President Sirleaf will join three other African ...
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Liberia Korean to Invest U.S.$695 Million in Infrastructure
A South Korean Investment Company, the Make Group says plans are far advanced to invest US$695 million in the construction and development of a millennium village here. The delegation which recently paid a courtesy call on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf at her Foreign Ministry office, with the presence of Vice President Joseph N. Boakai, Sr. said the construction will be done on some 325 acres ...
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Sierra Leone Government Targets Economic Transformation
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma's government has drawn up a 30-year plan to transform the country from a fragile low income state into a middle income nation. "As a way of doing that, we have developed what we now call our agenda for prosperity, which is a five-year cascading plan that will lead into an eventual 30-year posterity plan," said Richard Konteh, the ...
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Opposition Leader Delayed Guinean Elections Unlikely this Month
A key opposition leader in Guinea has said it is unlikely that the country’s long-delayed parliamentary elections will take place on June ...
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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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