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Liberia Liberia Seeks U.S. Protective Gear in Mali
Liberia has requested the United States' (US') support in the form of protective gear, to enable the deployment of the Liberian platoon that will participate in the peacekeeping operation in Mali. A dispatch from Washington, the United States of America says President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf also sought U.S. support in tackling drug trafficking in the West African Region. President ...
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Liberia Well Make Up - Liberian Prez Sirleaf Somersaults Over Spat With Liberia Media
Barely a week after her now infamous declaration that she was "enjoying this benign neglect" and "I wish they will continue it for a long time," when asked to response to a much-publicized blackout by major newspapers and radio stations in Liberia, protesting anti-media statements attributed to the head of her Executive Protection Service, Liberian president Ellen ...
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Liberia A Big Blow to Liberia - Death of Archbishop Francis Hits Nation Catholic Church
Monrovia - Archbishop Michael Kpakala Francis, an outspoken clergy renowned for his fiery sermons and stance against brutal regimes of former presidents Samuel Doe and Charles Ghankay Taylor is dead. Archbishop Francis who never fully recovered since he suffered a stroke in 2004 has been ailing for quite some time. His death leaves a major vacuum in the Catholic Church of Liberia. Born ...
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Liberia Ellen Defends Record
Despite a recent independent audit, which cast doubt on good governance and transparency here, amidst a media rage, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency. The Reuters news agency quotes president Sirleaf as saying that audit of resource contracts by accounting firm Moore Stephens had been commissioned to fix, and not ...
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Liberia Our Tribute to Bishop Michael K. Francis
The Most Outspoken personality in contemporary Liberia has been silenced permanently by the power of death. Catholic Archbishop Michael K. Francis has finally given up the ghost following a prolonged illness. His Demise Was announced on state radio Sunday, May 19, 2013 by the Archbishop of the Diocese of Monrovia Lewis Jerome Zeigler. According to Archbishop Zeigler, Bishop Francis died at ...
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Corruption Stinks At ‘cottage’ Hospital
The Public Accounts Committee in Parliament in collaboration with the Auditor General's Office has produced evidence indicating that funds allocated to the Princess Christian Maternity (PCMC) Hospital otherwise known as 'Cottage' Hospital were misappropriated two years ago and cannot now be accounted for by the hospital's management. Present in the Committee Room in ...
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Magburaka Is Rising Again
His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has confidently told the people of Magburaka that their township is on the rise. "Magburaka is rising again with paved roads, solar-lit streets. Magburaka is rising again, with employment opportunities opening up for its inhabitants; Magburaka is rising again, with renewed zeal, faith and action. And with the rise of this town, our school, the Government ...
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As Lantern Parade Kicks Off in Makeni
President Ernest Bai Koroma has said that this year's lantern parade in Makeni is first of its kind as the Heritage Foundation has decided to replicate the event all across the country. The Chief Executive called on the youth to be law abiding and be disciplined as prosperity doesn't exist where there is indiscipline. "Yesterday, I was standing where you're standing today, ...
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International Labor Rights ForumInstitute for Policy Studies Firestone Workers in Liberia Sign Historic Contract
New Contract is a Major Victory for International Campaign Against Firestone WASHINGTON - August 6 - Workers on the ...
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In Sierra Leone – Bo Mayor denies beating up Councilor
Mayor of Bo City Council, His Lordship Mayor Harold Logic Tucker, has denied beating up Councilor Pastor Senessy, former SLPP Chaplain, as alleged in a local ...
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Sierra Leone Flour Mill may collapse accountant tells minister
2013 paid a one day working visit to the flour mill factory, commonly known as Seaboard West Africa Company located at Cline Town, east end of Freetown. (Photo: Trade and Industry Minister, Hon. Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara on site at Seaboard West Africa ...
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Investing in Sierra Leone for the Global Steel Industry
During 2010/11, London Mining invested $200m to build a modern magnetic separation plant at Marampa, producing Iron Ore Concentrate putting Sierra Leone back on the map as one of the worlds high quality ...
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Airtel Rising Stars tournament to commence soon
Airtel is working with the Sierra Leone Football Association, Youth Employment and Sports and National Youth Commission, to identify and nurture aspiring football ...
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Concord Store donates Le20 million to disaster management in Sierra Leone
The Managing Director, Mr. Yasser Al-Ghahna of the number one building material store in Sierra Leone, Concord Store Limited, heartily donated the sum of Le20 million to the committee to help fast track ...
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KPMG auditor wins Airtel trip to England
Airtel's 3x reloaded promotion has ended with an external auditor from KPMG, Albert Randle, winning the grand prize which is a trip to England to watch Manchester United in the field of ...
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648 police personnel pass-out in Sierra Leone
18 May, 2013 – Six hundred and forty-eight police personnel passed out from the Police Training School (PTS) at Hastings. Among the recruits that graduated, 224 were female and 424 were male. 70 of the new recruits have university degrees, diplomas, and ...
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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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