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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Sierra Leone Times.com http://www.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/10/id/8fcd2bb0346b8627/ en-us Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:47:24 -0400 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:47:24 -0400 30 A former Liberian warlord whose drugged fighters appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions on Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during his appearance before the country... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17281032/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:45:20 -0400 Mail & Guardian http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17281032/ FREETOWN, Aug 28 (IPS) - Sierra Leonean rights activists have served notice on the government that they will campaign against any attempt to retain the death penalty in the new constitution and insist... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17281035/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:43:15 -0400 IPS http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17281035/ A former Liberian warlord whose drugged fighters once appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during an appearance before a public c... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17281809/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:14:19 -0400 ABC News http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17281809/ Senators Barack Obama (right) and Joe Biden (left) were officially nominated Wednesday by the Democratic National Convention as the party's ticket for the November presidential elections. Photo by Mat... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17276469/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 06:08:12 -0400 Novinite http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17276469/ Seventy would-be African immigrants perished when their boat sank in the Mediterranean Sea, according to eight companions rescued off Malta on Wednesday. This is contrary to previous reports that c... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17277197/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:39:56 -0400 MaltaMedia http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17277197/ The Guinean President Lansana Conte appears to have arbitrarily sacked his Mines Minster, Ahmed Kante, who had launched a major review of the country's mining development contracts. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17272418/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:17:40 -0400 Mine Web http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17272418/ Up to 3,160 people have now contracted cholera and 73 people have died across the country and health minister Camilo Simoes Lopes told IRIN the authorities are struggling to win the fight again the ep... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17272693/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:46:31 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17272693/ Top United Nations envoy toLiberia Wednesday called on Liberian families to make their children's education a priority as the country rebuilds after years of civil war. "All children -- girls and... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17272704/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:19:17 -0400 People's Daily http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17272704/ They are here to launch the first ever State of Human Rights Report for Sierra Leone; Zainab, 12, is in the midst of another day on the narrow, muddy streets of the area, selling groundnuts to help su... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17273352/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:18:07 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17273352/ A former warlord whose drugged fighters appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during his appearance before the country's Truth and... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17270200/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:25:55 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17270200/ SYDNEY — A skeleton thought to belong to a World War II pilot has been discovered dangling in the jungle canopy in Papua New Guinea, the Australian Broadcasting Corp reported Thursday. Hikers o... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17269761/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:49:38 -0400 Japan Today http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17269761/ Governments Turn Against Media, Nigerian Killed Nigeria: Police Involvement Suspected In Killing Of Journalistsenegal: Government Vehicle Seen In Attacks On Newsroomsalso: The Gambia, Ghana, Sierra ... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17269525/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:26:59 -0400 IFEX http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17269525/ Papua New Guinea to Improve Power Supply MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Papua New Guinea will draw up a detailed plan to improve power supply in the country where 90% of the population still has no electricity... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17269405/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:36:23 -0400 ADB http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17269405/ The Kenyan government on Wednesday called on African parliamentarians to be at the forefront in sensitizing the society on the importance of conserving the environment. Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo M... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17269407/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:35:07 -0400 People's Daily http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17269407/ Sonya Grier, associate professor of marketing at American University's Kogod School of Business, was the lead researcher on the project. That's according to an article in the September issue ... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17265749/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:19:38 -0400 Ad Age http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17265749/ MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - A former Liberian warlord whose drugged fighters once appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during an app... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17266789/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:54:48 -0400 Find Law http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17266789/ Eager to put their best foot forward when hordes of soccer fanatics descend on South Africa for the FIFA World Cup in 2010, Cape wine producers have embarked on what might be called a wild wine-waiter... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17261886/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:16:54 -0400 The Globe And Mail http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17261886/ MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) - A former Liberian warlord whose drugged fighters once appeared on camera holding up a human heart dodged questions Wednesday and refused to accept any wrongdoing during an app... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17262483/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:06:29 -0400 Find Law http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17262483/ The border fence between Egypt and Israel. Egyptian authorities have arrested 33 African migrants, including four children, who were trying to cross the border illegally into Israel, a security offica... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17250999/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:19:43 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17250999/ to overthrow Doe but Johnson, who has already made allegations about Washington's dubious role in the 1989-1997 war, insists he was secretly set free by the authorities. Taylor and Johnson were alli... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251647/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:05:06 -0400 Morning Star http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251647/ Risk management has been defined as the process of identifying and analyzing loss exposures, evaluating the feasibility of risk management techniques to address the loss exposures, selecting and imple... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251774/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:59 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251774/ Police personnel at the eastern police station Tuesday obtained statements from the medical superintendent at the princess christian maternity hospital (PCMH) Dr. Ibrahim Thollie and his storekeeper f... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251776/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:58 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251776/ The 65th annual Venice International Film Festival opens this week and this year it is dedicated to the one of Africa's greatest film makers - the late Youssef Chahine of Egypt who died recently. The ... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17250419/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:43:04 -0400 BBC http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17250419/ Sierra Leonean striker, Sallieu Bundu aka Little, playing in the United States of America in the USL Second Division Championship has helped his club; Cleveland City Stars win this year's championship... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251772/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:01:01 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251772/ A law court in Sierra Leone will soon entertain a case filed by Sierra Leone Commercial Bank against the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) for failing to meet up stipulated financial obligations if ru... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251773/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:01:00 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251773/ Various unstoppable forces contribute to the failure, not least political and economic beliefs and systems coupled to greed. However, as the late Peter Drucker pointed out many years ago, "Capitalism ... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251775/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:59 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251775/ Secretary general of Sierra Leone People's Party has confirmed that they still owe the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank a huge amount of money; a development observers say could lead to a court action aga... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251770/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:01:02 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251770/ Right To Play (RTP) an international non-governmental organization yesterday donated 10 addidas footballs to the national U-17 team, Sierra Stars at a ceremony held at their headquarter in Freetown. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251771/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:01:01 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251771/ Australian high commissioner to Sierra Leone has pledged his country's commitment to ensuring that Sierra Leone attains the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251777/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:57 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251777/ "We are all one people and Sierra Leone is one country. We should forget about individual gains and work in the interest of developing our respective communities," he said. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251779/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:55 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251779/ Police has confirmed that the Nigerian national, Nwadialor Ifeanyi Ifezuo from Lagos state, arrested with 35 balls of powdered substance suspected to be cocaine in Bo would be sent to Freetown after t... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251778/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:55 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251778/ Speaking at the ceremony, Africell's chief commercial officer Joe Amara Bangali Jr. said the gesture was not the first, adding that the company has sponsored previous table tennis programmes in the co... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251781/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:54 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251781/ The assailants were arrested following a violent August 15 attack on a small island in the district leaving some 12 houses burnt down and property worth millions of leones looted. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251780/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:00:53 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17251780/ Johannesburg - A South African member of parliament found himself staring the country's violent crime in the face for 15 kilometres as the victim of an assault clung to the bonnet of his moving Merced... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17242219/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 06:26:04 -0400 Earth Times http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17242219/ Nairobi/Khartoum - The joint United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur UNAMID has slammed the Sudanese government for killing dozens in a refugee camp in the restive province, accusi... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17238291/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:47:10 -0400 Earth Times http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17238291/ ISTANBUL - Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said that African continent, with its natural resources, agricultural fields, rich water and mineral reso... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17238303/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:16:50 -0400 Turkish Press http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17238303/ In December 2007, unrest broke out in the diamond mining region of Kono in the east, between kimberlite mining corporation Koidu Holdings and locals in the lease area. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17238896/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:50:23 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17238896/ ISTANBUL - Turkish President Abdullah Gul on Tuesday urged international community to show more interest in problems of the African continent. Addressing the formal opening of Turkey-Africa Cooperatio... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17235041/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:37:18 -0400 Turkish Press http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17235041/ ISTANBUL - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met on Tuesday prime ministers of several African countries currently in Turkey to attend Turkey-Africa Cooperation Summit. Erdogan met Moroccan ... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17235107/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:37:17 -0400 Turkish Press http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17235107/ Wow, so you guys are basically all racists huh? Maybe the comparison should've been between Saffers and Sharks players. Ask 'wheels' graham and george smith who's worse, Burger or Gallen? http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17235110/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:16:39 -0400 Sportal http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17235110/ (AFP)--South African lawmakers Tuesday announced the shelving of legislation aimed at speeding up the flagging land reform program by allowing the expropriation of land. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17228248/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:46:17 -0400 Morning Star http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17228248/ MADRID: At least 20 African migrants died at sea while trying to reach Spain by boat according to survivors of the ill-fated voyage who arrived overnight in the southern port of Malaga, local official... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17222801/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:39:21 -0400 The Daily Star http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17222801/ MONROVIA, LIBERIA — One of Liberia's most infamous warlords admitted Tuesday that he had trained in Libya and helped topple the government of Burkina Faso before overthrowing Liberia's president... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17222797/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:55:38 -0400 Denver Post http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17222797/ Since Monday August 8, men of the Sierra Leone Roads Transport Authority (SLRTA) have been busy on most streets of eastern region headquarter town of Kenema as they carry out vehicle census exercise. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223843/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:12 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223843/ In the absence of striker, Kei Kamara and left-full back Gibrilla Woobay, due to yellow cards suspension, five new faces are expected to join the national team as they face Equatorial Guinea for the s... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223846/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:09 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223846/ Chairperson's Health and Sanitation committee Kenema district council Saturday disclosed to Concord Times that the district needs severe health care delivery service. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223847/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:08 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223847/ Honourable Foday Rado Yokie of Constituency 61, Bo town II, over the weekend donated sporting equipment to referees, premier, first, second and non-division football teams in Bo. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223844/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:11 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223844/ UN ambassadors held an informal meeting from last Saturday to Monday in Austria's western village of Alpbach, to discuss the peace-building process in Africa, local media reported Tuesday. State Secre... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17221822/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:43:20 -0400 People's Daily http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17221822/ Osman Nyallay, a senior secondary school pupil of Nasir Ahmadiyya Muslim Secondary School in Kenema was on Sunday announced 15th winner in the ongoing Africell Le 2billion mega prize promotion at a ce... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223845/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:09 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223845/ SciDev.Net African scientists have uncovered how one of the world's most economically devastating crop diseases emerged, and hope to genetically engineer disease resistant crops using the inform... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17221696/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:07:38 -0400 Seed Quest http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17221696/ The huge complex is a skills acquisition centre which was formally handed over to the government of Sierra Leone by the Nigerian high commissioner to Sierra Leone, Chief Godson O. Echegile late last w... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223848/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:07 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223848/ President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Monday handed over two air tickets and US$ 2,000 as support to Major Musa Bangura in order for the latter to seek medical attention at t... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223849/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:05 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223849/ Sierra Leoneans have once again demonstrated their political maturity under the auspices of democracy in their country's local council elections which took place on the 5th of July 2008. The voter tur... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223851/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:04 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223851/ Joseph Musa's reaction came after widespread allegations that corrosion in connecting pipes across the city were sending filth and sediments in water supplied for domestic purposes. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223850/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:04 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223850/ Secretary to President Ernest Bai Koroma may have been forced to resign yesterday after he sanctioned the debate of a proposed legislation to increase salaries of the president and his vice without a ... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223852/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:42:02 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17223852/ The Botswana justice department has honoured an agreement not to sentence two South Africans to death, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) news reported on Tuesday. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17215600/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:04:56 -0400 Mail and Guardian http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17215600/ expressed deep concern today at new death penalty legislation authorized by Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, contravening an international treaty on civil and political rights. The Committee... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17215479/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:16:05 -0400 UN News Centre http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17215479/ Speaking at the opening ceremony, deputy bank governor Alhaji Mohamed Fofana said the bank has secured another licence from Bank of Sierra Leone to open a branch at Waterloo, making it the fourth bran... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217012/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:46 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217012/ The three new products 'Call me, know your number and notify me' were introduced in order to ease the problems of sending text messages and knowing your phone number. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217013/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:45 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217013/ TOTOPE, Ghana - The old shore road to Totope is now under the sea, and when developers began carving out another one, it was washed away so often they abandoned it. Now the road to this village is jus... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17215601/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 12:12:27 -0400 MSNBC http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17215601/ Americans are adopting fewer orphans overseas except in one country: Ethiopia. But social workers there are saying adoption is not the best solution to Ethiopia's problems. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17215610/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:54:33 -0400 Pacific News Service http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17215610/ "We are very much concerned about the human resource capacity. Research and training are very much needed in all policy guidelines. You have the talent and ability so it is quite relevant to help the ... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217014/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:44 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217014/ The interview session was largely confined to his life after active politics and some of his achievements while he was still president. From peace building to infrastructural development to his relati... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217010/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:47 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217010/ State House Friday stated that President Ernest Bai Koroma was not aware about any supposed salary increase under the state salaries, pensions, gratuities and other benefits Act. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217015/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:43 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217015/ Institute of advance management and technology (IAMTECH) and the national electoral commission Saturday certified 12 students who have successfully gone through a twelve-week rigorous training on inte... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217011/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:46 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217011/ Between 75 and 250 million people in Africa stand at the risk of being faced with a serious water supply deficit by 2020, a Ghanaian environmental protection agency director predicted. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17215032/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:57:29 -0400 afrol News http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17215032/ Former President Alhaji Dr Ahmed Tejan Kabbah said in an exclusive interview that corruption was endemic in the country but the British, who were helping, did certain things that were not in the inter... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217017/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:41 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217017/ President Ernest Bai Koroma Friday registered his dissatisfaction with the issue of scandals surrounding the ministry of education, particularly the problem of "ghost teachers, ghost schools, ghost pu... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217018/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:39 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217018/ Civil society organizations have called for independence of a taskforce set up by government to identify gaps and limitations of existing mining contracts and agreements in its analyses of the views o... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217019/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:48:38 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17217019/ + ] MADRID (Reuters) - A group of African migrants rescued off Spain's coast said they had to throw the bodies of 25 companions overboard as their overcrowded boat drifted for days in the Mediterran... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17209908/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:13:00 -0400 Reuters http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17209908/ Stevie Wonder's Morning Thunder Thousand Dollar Thursday radio show, heard locally in Los Angeles on Radio Free KJLH10 FM, has announced the donation of $5,000 to actor and philanthropist Isaiah Washi... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17211355/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:13:00 -0400 All Africa http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17211355/ Malaga, Spain - Spanish rescuers were Tuesday searching for the bodies of at least 20 African emigres who died on their boat while trying to reach Spain, national Red Cross sources said. Twenty-five s... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17206526/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:36:10 -0400 Earth Times http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17206526/ A Utah man was placed on three years of probation Monday for conspiring to import hundreds of pounds of African khat into the United States. A defense lawyer for Papy Mubirigi told U.S. District Jud... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17206528/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:25:49 -0400 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17206528/ South Africa's Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma began an official visit on Monday to Cuba at the invitation of her Cuban counterpart Felipe Perez Roque. Zuma's visit began with a meeting with P... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17206542/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:45:14 -0400 People's Daily http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17206542/ Posted on: Monday, 25 August 2008, 18:00 CDT WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Department of Justice today filed a lawsuit against the City of Fort Pierce, Fla., alleging that the ci... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17201010/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:22:11 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17201010/ The information you provide will be used only to send the requested e-mail and will not be used to send any other e-mail communications. Read more in our http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17201728/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:52:54 -0400 CBS 2 Chicago http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17201728/ Election processes are being checked with the help of cell phones Cell phones are more accessible to Africans than the internet and telephones Technology could help push more countries towards democra... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17197186/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 18:59:58 -0400 CNN http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17197186/ Posted: 1:07 PM- A Utah man was placed on three years of probation today for conspiring to import hundreds of pounds of African khat into the United States. A defense lawyer for Papy Mubirigi told U... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17192826/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:13:43 -0400 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17192826/ (BHP) has filed an urgent application with South Africa's Competition Tribunal to have a summons issued by the competition watchdog over its proposed takeover of http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17188340/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:43:53 -0400 Morning Star http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17188340/ TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 25, 2008) - InterOil Corporation (TSX:IOL) (AMEX:IOC) (POMSoX:IOC), a Canadian company with operations in Papua New Guinea advises that acid stimulation at the Elk... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17183322/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:39:22 -0400 Market Wire http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17183322/ Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has criticised the UK for its alcohol culture and poor cuisine. In an interview with Paris Match magazine, Oliver suggested people in the UK cared more about getting drunk... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17182622/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:23:51 -0400 BBC http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17182622/ As a talk-show queen with a $2bn fortune, a role model and mega-celebrity, Oprah Winfrey is comfortable with the limelight – except, it seems, when it comes to the school for poor girls she foun... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17174793/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:57:37 -0400 The Independent http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17174793/ A delegation of business professionals from Senegal, Nigeria, the Ivory Coast and other African nations will be at the Southfield Civic Center this week to talk to women about business opportunities, ... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17174799/ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 02:49:30 -0400 The Detroit News http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17174799/ United Nations officials, representatives of African governments and civil society experts have gathered in Nigeria today for a three-day conference on racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and re... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17164999/ Sun, 24 Aug 2008 16:38:02 -0400 UN News Centre http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17164999/ Samuel Wanjiru enjoys his moment of glory after bagging the Olympic marathon gold at the Birds Nest in Beijing on Sunday. Photo/MOHAMMED AMIN http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17160262/ Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:10:24 -0400 Daily Nation http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17160262/ August 24, 2008, 12:00 South Africa's High Commissioner to Uganda is to visit the two South Africans held in prison in Kampala. Aid workers Mufti Hussain Bhayat and Haroon Saley were arrested at the E... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17158511/ Sun, 24 Aug 2008 07:17:18 -0400 SABC http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17158511/ Durban’s University of KwaZulu-Natal vice-chancellor Malegapuru Makgoba is expected to deliver an edict that the UKZN’s Centre for Civil Society (CCS) will close on December 31. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17156589/ Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:57:54 -0400 Green Left Online http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17156589/ Posted on: Saturday, 23 August 2008, 18:00 CDT By S Hodson PUBLIC opinion seems to be that parents who decide not to vaccinate their children with the MMR vaccine are jeopardising the health of the c... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17152232/ Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:49:37 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17152232/ By Kamran HaiderISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Assassinated former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's widower will be a presidential candidate, an official of his party said on Saturday, a move that wil... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17152407/ Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:11:39 -0400 Swiss Info http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17152407/ Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Saturday set up an anti-corruption commission in response to donor calls for tougher measures against graft in the West African country. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17146914/ Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:48:09 -0400 Daily Nation http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17146914/ Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has hailed the African Development Bank (ADB) or its decision to open a local Office in the country, which would act as a catalyst to the release of funds for Kenya's deve... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17143664/ Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:31:36 -0400 People's Daily http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17143664/ Posted on: Saturday, 23 August 2008, 03:00 CDT By Medina, Katherine Bankole African American Slave Medicine: Herbal and Non-Herbal Treatments. By Herbert C. Covey. (Lanham, Md., and other cities: Lex... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17141803/ Sat, 23 Aug 2008 07:47:02 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17141803/ Rugby: Wallabies to name team to take on Boks DURBAN - The Wallabies have arrived in Durban with the chance to mount a serious challenge for the Tri-Nations title if they can secure a first wi... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17134205/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 22:39:33 -0400 New Zealand Herald http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17134205/ Four Britons have died in a minibus crash while on a safari holiday in South Africa, the Foreign Office said last night. The victims – understood to be relations of the actress Helena Bonha... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17131048/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:33:05 -0400 The Independent http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17131048/ Sierra Leonean fashion designer Adama Kai, right, adjusts a dress on Ramatu Wurie during her first photo shoot in downtown Freetown, Sierra Leone on August 9. http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17124971/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:11:47 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17124971/ NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger is to offer a reward of just over $10 to anyone who reports a case of Guinea worm to authorities as part of a global effort to eradicate the painful waterborne parasite, the h... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17124343/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:50:14 -0400 Reuters http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17124343/ TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Aug. 22, 2008) - Homeland Energy Group Ltd. (TSX:HEG) ('Homeland' or 'the Company'), is pleased to announce that Nedbank Capital, the Investment Banking division of Ned... http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17118936/ Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:24:27 -0400 Market Wire http://story.sierraleonetimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/8fcd2bb0346b8627/id/17118936/