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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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Kent Sierra Leone thrash Police Women’s Cricket Club by 9 wickets
Kent Cricket Club Sierra Leone (formerly Kenemmanjane Cricket Club) beat Police Women's Cricket Club by 9 wickets at the opening ceremony of the Sierra Leone Cricket Association National T20 Women’s Premier League 2013. (Photo: Ann Marie Kamara, Kent Cricket Club Captain, in bowling ...
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In Sierra Leone NATCOM Chairman lauded for his ‘unwavering commitment to integrity’ as a regulator
was recently lauded in Istanbul, Turkey during the 8th International Electronic Communications Regulators Conference for his "unwavering commitment to integrity" as he continues to lead the ...
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Office of the Prosecutor Trains Police Prosecutors in Kingtom Sierra Leone
The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) concluded a two-day training of fifty police prosecutors at Kingtom Police Barracks on Saturday, held as part of the OTP's ongoing effort to build capacity in Sierra Leone's judicial ...
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Journalists and their information
I have taken pains to reference the above in the light of what I hear on radio or what I read in newspapers. The journalist, they say, is an opinion maker from whom people make informed judgment about issues that affect their lives. Imagine a situation whereby a journalist broadcasts or publishes the wrong information about people or ...
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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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