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  • Kennice Charles helps demolish Pentagon FC

    Kaningo FC prolific striker Kennice Charles scored four goals to help beat and knock-out Pentagon FC 6-0 in the ongoing Constituency 112 gala sponsored by Hon. Shekuba Amani Sannoh on Tuesday ...

  • Lebanese Committee Raise Concern

    The Lebanese community in Kenema raised concern over the sledgehammer of discrimination meted out to them by some Sierra Leoneans. The Lebanese, like their counterparts, the Fullahs, Indians, Marakas, and others, are among the biggest communities that are strongly committed to bringing socio-economic development in the ...

  • Minister ends five day feasibility tour

    The Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security, Dr. Sam Sesay and team concluded a 5 day agricultural visit in all the four districts. He visited Koinadugu District to see agricultural projects implemented like the long unconstructed Kurbola road linking Kono. The Minister's team was impressed with the agricultural projects implemented by ...

  • MP speaks on the role of MPs in Sierra Leone

    Hon. Salammy told this medium that for someone to represent his people in parliament he or she must be a Sierra Leonean citizen, have attained the age or 21 and above, be able to speak, read and write the English language, to participate in debates and other parliamentary ...

  • US Ambassador ends working visit to Kenema district

    The Ambassador of the United States of America, HE Ambassador Michael Owen (in photo), told this medium in an exclusive interview that he is criss-crossing the country to get a first-hand view about the US Embassy's self-help development projects in the ...

Movie Review

The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) [DVD]

The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) [DVD]

For many, Gillo Pontecorvos The Battle of Algiers is the pinnacle of leftwing oppositional cinema, a sharply political film that draws the viewer in with its documentary aesthetic as it relives a crucial moment of anti-colonial resistance. Made in 1965, a scant three years ... ...

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  • FPU Regional Chairman-East donates Qurans to Daru mosque

    The Fullah Progressive Union-Eastern province chairman, Alhaji Mohamed Petteh Jalloh (Jamboria) of 104 Hangha Road, Kenema, made a courtesy visit to the people of Daru Jawei Chiefdom, Kailahun District. The chairman and his executives thanked the Daru people for sending an invitation letter to FPU-East to grace the opening ceremony of the Badru-Deen Mission mosque, built recently in Daru ...

  • Sierra Leones Refugee All Stars coming to Wild Buffalo

    Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars started playing music together in West African refugee camps while their homeland was being racked by years of bloody warfare. The ensemble performs Saturday, May 25, at Wild Buffalo, 208 W. Holly St. Doors open at 8 p.m. The Apothecary House Band opens. Cover: $15. ...

  • Every woman can be the “virtuous Woman” of the Bible Guests at Covenant Child Breakfast Fellowship told

    The Covenant Child World Ministries of Somerset, New Jersey last Saturday held a Breakfast fellowship for female members and women in the community . The Breakfast , which was organized by the Women’s Fellowship of the church and held at the Caribbean Palace Hall , was not only part of the Mothers’ Day celebrations but was also designed as a spiritual outreach to evangelize and ...

  • “Magburaka is rising again” President Koroma says at MBSS Prize-giving

    By State House Communications Unit : BOYS SCHOOL CAMPUS, Magburaka Town, 17 May, 2013/–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, ...

  • Zainab Bangura tells BBC Rapists try to break the spirit of their victims

    Zainab Bangura is the UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict. Appointed last year, her mandate is to combat rape and sexual violence as a weapon of war. She recently travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, which was described by her predecessor as ';the rape capital of the world';, and came face to face with the perpetrators of these crimes. Zainab told ...

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