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Action Aid Director highlights progress and challenges
Action Aid International Sierra Leone yesterday updated newsmen on the progress and challenges of their activities in the seven districts they are operating in the country. According to Foday Swarray, Head of Policy and Programmes of Action Aid Sierra Leone, it is part of our commitment and accountability towards the donors, partners and our project beneficiaries in the country to update the ...
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For stealing vehicle… Man sentence to 3 years imprisonment
As a way of discouraging vehicle theft in the country and to build the confidence of vehicle owners, Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No.2, yesterday sentenced Lamin Kanu to three years imprisonment having been convicted for larceny and malicious damage. The accused was facing trial on two count charges of Larceny and malicious damage with the particulars of offence, that on the 28th October ...
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Liberia Multi-Million Dollar Medical College in Sight
A former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services Dr. Louis Sullivan has disclosed plans for the construction of a multi-million dollar medical college in Tappita, Nimba County. Dr. Sullivan who is also president emeritus of Moore House School of Medicine said his visit to Liberia is geared towards working with Doctor Karteh in the development of a medical college in the country. He ...
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Liberia Liberias Success Will Be Americas Success
On the second day of her visit to Washington, D.C., President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf addressed a meeting of the Corporate Council on Africa's new Liberia Working Group, laying out her country's potential, as well as its challenges, and inviting U.S. companies to come in and invest, as other countries are doing, citing opportunities in such areas as construction, power, ports, and ...
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Liberia The Changing Face of Land Disputes
Monrovia - The Liberia Land Commission, which was set up in 2009 to help settle land disputes between returning refugees and their neighbours, is making significant headway, say land experts, but non-conflict related land disputes are increasing, most of them as a result of weak land laws. Tens of thousands of Liberians were displaced during the 1999-2003 civil war. Many returned to their ...
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Obama to take first major Africa trip in late June
President Barack Obama will leave on a first African tour next month, visiting Senegal, Tanzania and South Africa, but his itinerary bypasses Kenya, an ancestral homeland. Obama disappointed many Africans by spending only a few hours in sub-Saharan Africa -- in Ghana -- during his first term, but is keen to implement a sweeping new regional strategy, prioritizing democracy and economic reform. ...
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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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