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AllAfrica.com
April 11, 2018
The new Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) government has announced the reintroduction of a National Cleaning Day on the first Saturday of every month to ensure that the country, especially the Freetown municipality is clean at all times. This is not the first time for a national cleaning to be instituted byÃâà...
africanews
April 10, 2018
All Public Sector Workers and Government Ministers are required to be in Office at 8:30am till 4:45pm. The president and vice president will conduct routine and unannounced checks at Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to ensure implementation. Failure to report for work on time will lead toÃâà...
Voice of America
April 9, 2018
But now, there is a new threat to Sierra Leone's chimpanzee population: the clearing of forests. In 2010, the government reported that just five percent of original forests remain untouched. And development is moving closer to those few remaining forests, including the one at the national park aroundÃâà...
The Patriotic Vanguard
April 8, 2018
President Julius Maada Bio and officials of his government met with a delegation of the APC, the former ruling party, on Saturday. They discussed incidents of violence across the country in recent days and rumours of the new SLPP leadership ordering the arrest of former APC government ministers.
africanews
April 3, 2018
Sierra Leone government through the Ministry of Defense (MOD) has slammed a top opposition figure for suggesting that there was a plan to assassinate ... of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces and also the peace and security of Sierra Leone,” the statement signed by army chief B. Sesay added.
SaharaReporters.com
April 1, 2018
The government of Sierra Leone, on Saturday night, disrupted the services of all providers of telephone and internet services for over nine hours on a day the country's citizens were voting in the presidential run-off election. The run-off poll, which held after a four-day postponement, recorded a very low voterÃâà...
New Zimbabwe.com
March 28, 2018
Better known simply as "Emmerson", the Afrobeat singer is the bete noire of Sierra Leone's music scene, one of few successful artists who refuse to ... His first single "Yu Go See Am" ridiculed government officials stuffing their faces and skimming money off state funds while ordinary citizens went hungry.
Aljazeera.com
March 28, 2018
Hundreds of mudslide survivors in Sierra Leone are struggling to move on, seven months after the disaster. At least 500 people are known to have died and hundreds more remain missing. Temporary shelters for the homeless have closed, and only a fraction of them are being cared for by relatives andÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 27, 2018
"I know there are propaganda machines out there organised by the government to go against my music on social media," Emmerson says. "Sometimes you have phone calls, text messages, Facebook... 'We will light you up. If I ever see you that will be your last day'." he adds, eyes widening beneath theÃâà...
Global News Network
March 26, 2018
The statement further enjoined all government institutions “to assume their full responsibilities and ensure respect for the rule of law,” while, “security agencies should ensure the protection of lives and properties.” It said the ECOWAS Commission “is closely monitoring developments in Sierra Leone andÃâà...
Coindesk
March 26, 2018
But many media outlets made it sound like Agora was running the actual election for the government on a blockchain. Unfortunately, CoinDesk was among them. The original title for our March 8 story, "Sierra Leone Secretly Holds First Blockchain-Powered Presidential Vote," while vague, could easily haveÃâà...
Malay Mail
March 26, 2018
A picture taken on March 9, 2018 shows Sierra Leone popstar Emmerson posing at his studio in Freetown, Sierra Loene. — AFP picFREETOWN, March 26 — For a musician used to receiving personal insults from the president and anonymous death threats with the release of every new single, EmmersonÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 25, 2018
Freetown Female Prison, located in the centre of Sierra Leone's capital, is the former detention facility of the Special Court for Sierra Leone, where men accused of war crimes during Sierra Leone's ... Her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment by the government on Independence Day in April 2011.
Bitcoin Magazine
March 23, 2018
The big news on March 8, 2018, was that Sierra Leone had just run the first blockchain-based election. The big news in the days and weeks that followed, however, became that the government of Sierra Leone was denying that it happened. In a press release from Swiss-based blockchain technologyÃâà...
The Patriotic Vanguard
March 23, 2018
It is incumbent on the government of Sierra Leone to ensure that civil society, media and opposition groups can participate in the electoral process without fear and intimidation. The security agencies have a responsibility to act within the laws of the land as well as adherence to their professional codes ofÃâà...
Sierra Leone Telegraph
March 20, 2018
That the 3rd Defendant is the Principal Legal Adviser to the Government of Sierra Leone and a major Stakeholder in the March 7th 2018, Presidential, Parliamentary and Local Council Elections. 6. That on the 7th March, 2018, the 1st and 2nd Defendants conducted elections throughout the Republic ofÃâà...
Sierra Leone Telegraph
March 20, 2018
In 2012 – five years after elected as president – and his ruling APC party formed a government, on an agenda that promised change and prosperity, Sierra Leone began to crumble. The economy was in decline, despite huge one-off investments by African Minerals and other foreign companies.
Cointelegraph
March 20, 2018
After a slew of headlines that the March 7 Sierra Leone presidential election were the world's first Blockchain-based election due to support by voting tech company Agora, the Sierra Leone government has officially denied any use of Blockchain to tally election results by the National Electoral CommissionÃâà...
TechCrunch
March 14, 2018
“Anonymized votes/ballots are being recorded on Agora's blockchain, which will be publicly available for any interested party to review, count and validate,” said Gammar. “This is the first time a government election is using blockchain technology.” “Sierra Leone wishes to create an environment of trust withÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 14, 2018
So when a year ago, a group of miners struck fortune and found a 709-carat diamond in a half-broken shifter, the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma was understandably eager to use the gem to change Sierra Leone's reputation for blood diamonds. At the time, the government was also embroiledÃâà...
africanews
March 14, 2018
Julius Maada Bio – main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP). Julius Maada Bio, 53, has tasted the presidency before having served a military Head of State for about three months. He led the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) military junta government that lasted from January 16 toÃâà...
pv magazine International
March 13, 2018
The Sierra Leone government is committed to improving energy access for the population. To reach its ambitious energy targets it aims to create market incentives for the deployment of efficient renewable energy solutions for remote and off-grid areas driven by the private sector. The current project will addÃâà...
News24
March 10, 2018
Freetown - Sierra Leone's two main parties traded verbal blows on Friday, with the opposition accusing the government of planning to announce an ... However, the ruling All Peoples Congress (APC) said in a statement it had a "comfortable lead" over its rivals, causing the Sierra Leone People's PartyÃâà...
News24
March 8, 2018
Freetown - Counting began on Wednesday in Sierra Leone following a largely peaceful general election dominated by voters' desire for better economic conditions and an end to corruption. Polls closed at 17:00 as expected for the West African nation's 3.1 million voters, who were choosing a newÃâà...
GhanaWeb
March 7, 2018
NDA Presidential Candidate for the March 7, 2018 general election in Sierra Leone, Mr. MC Bah has held a private meeting with former President of ... Mr. Bah informed the former President that the Fulhbe in Sierra Leone are deeply concerned about the state of Fulani in Ghana and indulge government toÃâà...
New York Times
March 7, 2018
The mudslide exposed the government's lack of vision and refusal to act when illegal structures were sprouting all over the city, said Ibrahim Abdullah, a former professor of history and African studies at Fourah Bay College at the University of Sierra Leone. Moreover, Mr. Abdullah said, rampant corruptionÃâà...
Sierra Leone Telegraph
March 5, 2018
It is unfortunate that since Ernest Koroma took over as the head of state, in spite of the good things he has done, the issue of the Sierra Leone constitution has always been central to most of the government's undertakings. One of the blue prints in the manifesto of his second term in office was the setting upÃâà...
Awoko
March 3, 2018
Speaking on behalf of the Chinese Government at the ceremony, Wu Peng, the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone disclosed the commissioning is not only about the airport but also economic and social transformation through the new economic zone and new city that will open up the country to the restÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 2, 2018
We would have to wait and see how the new government would approach Sierra Leone's many challenges, but the country would witness another remarkable transfer of power, as occurred in 2007. This outcome would cement Sierra Leoneans' reputation for being an unforgiving electorate.
Charleston City Paper
March 2, 2018
... the largest British slave trading base on the "Rice Coast" of West Africa, and its links to South Carolina and Georgia; he also organized two Gullah Homecomings to Sierra Leone in which Gullah families with proven historical ties were hosted by the Sierra Leone Government as lost kinsmen come home.
African Arguments
March 1, 2018
We would have to wait and see how the new government would approach Sierra Leone's many challenges, but the country would witness another remarkable transfer of power, as occurred in 2007. This outcome would cement Sierra Leoneans' reputation for being an unforgiving electorate.
Awoko
February 28, 2018
Over 30,000 households are currently benefiting from a newly handed-over facilities and equipment by Government of Japan through Japan International Corporation Agency (JICA) to enable the population in the peninsular area; from Wilberforce, Goderich to Sussex, to enjoy quality electricity supply fromÃâà...
Sierra Leone Telegraph
February 23, 2018
The filing cabinets at Sierra Leone's State House are filled with reports that have not seen the light of day or implemented by the government, as promised. A good example is the 1991 Constitution Review Report, which was completed over a year ago and handed to president Koroma for discussion inÃâà...
Aljazeera.com (blog)
February 22, 2018
As May became June, Sierra Leone's government began to ration drinking water from the Guma Dam, the primary water source for the capital. By July, Guma had fallen to its lowest level since records began. I watched in disbelief as people on the streets of the nation's capital scooped water out of sewageÃâà...
africanews
February 21, 2018
He led the National Provisional Ruling Council (NPRC) military junta government that lasted from January 16 to March 29 1996. He has also tasted how it feels to be on the ballot paper, he was the Sierra Leone Peoples Party's candidate for the last elections. He lost to outgoing Ernest Bai Koroma who beatÃâà...
Sierra Leone Telegraph
February 20, 2018
The shocker of the Presidential Debate was the revelation from Samura Kamara, that during the three months as Head of State, in 1996, Julius Maada Bio, misappropriated $18million from the Government of Sierra Leone. Julius Maada Bio's rejoinder that evening indicated that they (Samura Kamara andÃâà...
Sierra Leone Telegraph
February 16, 2018
We are both native-born Americans; from Oklahoma and New York respectively, but we served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone in the 1960s and 1970s, and both of us have maintained a close relationship with that country ever since. The Sierra Leone Government has presented each of us with SierraÃâà...
Sierra Leone Telegraph
February 12, 2018
Ernest Koroma's APC government is so shamelessly unpatriotic that it sees nothing wrong with selling Sierra Leone to racist Chinese, a strain of treachery that will ultimately turn Sierra Leoneans into foreigners, in their own land. All over the Asian continent, from the Arab World to China, racism againstÃâà...
Sierra Leone Telegraph
February 10, 2018
Based on publicly available figures, the government of Sierra Leone (GOSL) headed by President Ernest Bai Koroma and his All Peoples' Congress (APC) party, may have presided over the most corrupt era in the history of the country, as they have been unable to account for close to one Trillion Leones.
Sierra Leone Telegraph
February 2, 2018
On the one hand, Government, IMF and World Bank know that with distributed technologies across Sierra Leone, and with the country's huge mineral deposit, the greater the potential to democratise the means of production. On the other hand, the unprecedented concentration of power in the hands of aÃâà...
The Patriotic Vanguard
December 31, 1999
A source within Sierra Leone's Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MEST) revealed to the press that the 39-60% tuition fees currently paid by the government to subsidy amounts paid by university students, will now be shelved. The source, who spoke to the Concord Times, noted that theÃâà...
Journalducameroun.com
December 31, 1999
Some supporters of the opposition All People's Congress (APC) capitalized on the situation and blamed it on the “incompetence” of the new Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP)-led government. But some SLPP supporters say disgruntled APC people within might have been sabotaging the new governmentÃâà...
Sierra Leone Telegraph
December 31, 1999
CHRDI is therefore using this platform to remind the Government of Sierra Leone, all Political Parties, the PPRC, the Police Service, the Electorate, the International Community and other Stakeholders about Sierra Leone's commitment to Peace and Tolerance as enshrined in varied articles and memorandaÃâà...
africanews
December 31, 1999
He has since appointed a transition team of 10 men and two women whose first task will be to “interface” between the new team and that of the outgoing president, Ernest Bai Koroma. “The SLPP won the elections and we will form an inclusive government reflecting all aspects of Sierra Leone,” Kabba toldÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
A year later Mr. Bio and other members of the armed forces were deployed back to the south of Sierra Leone to clamp down on an insurgency by the Revolutionary United Front, which opposed the government of President Joseph Saidu Momoh. In 1992, Mr. Bio and six other soldiers staged a coup in whichÃâà...
News24
December 31, 1999
Extremely high levels of corruption in Sierra Leone have long eroded faith in government, no more so following the 2014-2016 Ebola crisis which killed almost 4 000 people nationwide. Government auditors found in February 2015 that 30% of Ebola funds under parliament's control could not be accountedÃâà...
