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In Sierra Leone – Bo Mayor denies beating up Councilor

Mayor of Bo City Council, His Lordship Mayor Harold Logic Tucker, has denied beating up Councilor Pastor Senessy, former SLPP Chaplain, as alleged in a local ...
Sierra Leone Flour Mill may collapse accountant tells minister

2013 paid a one day working visit to the flour mill factory, commonly known as Seaboard West Africa Company located at Cline Town, east end of Freetown. (Photo: Trade and Industry Minister, Hon. Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara on site at Seaboard West Africa ...
Investing in Sierra Leone for the Global Steel Industry

During 2010/11, London Mining invested $200m to build a modern magnetic separation plant at Marampa, producing Iron Ore Concentrate putting Sierra Leone back on the map as one of the worlds high quality ...
Airtel Rising Stars tournament to commence soon

Airtel is working with the Sierra Leone Football Association, Youth Employment and Sports and National Youth Commission, to identify and nurture aspiring football ...
Concord Store donates Le20 million to disaster management in Sierra Leone

The Managing Director, Mr. Yasser Al-Ghahna of the number one building material store in Sierra Leone, Concord Store Limited, heartily donated the sum of Le20 million to the committee to help fast track ...

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Maria is 17 years old and has recently discovered that shes two months pregnant by a boy she doesnt love and who doesnt love her. She lives in a small town in Colombia on the outskirts of Bogot, and the only place to work is a flower plantation, where she strips roses of their l ... ...

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KPMG auditor wins Airtel trip to England

Airtel's 3x reloaded promotion has ended with an external auditor from KPMG, Albert Randle, winning the grand prize which is a trip to England to watch Manchester United in the field of ...
648 police personnel pass-out in Sierra Leone

18 May, 2013 – Six hundred and forty-eight police personnel passed out from the Police Training School (PTS) at Hastings. Among the recruits that graduated, 224 were female and 424 were male. 70 of the new recruits have university degrees, diplomas, and ...
DFID sign ₤4.4 Million MOU with Sierra Leone Ministry of Trade and Industry

The 4.4 million programme will include a number of components covering Market research, sector studies, and pilot activities aimed at identifying and testing responses to market failures. Capacity building to government, particularly to MTI and the agencies it supervises, including technical assistance, advice, training, and operational resources. Training and grants to small businesses and ...
We’re in top gear for WFA Division I League – Abir Bangura

The deputy manager of Regent Olympic FC, Madam-Abir Bangura told Sierra Express Sports that the club is well prepared and on the alert to compete in the upcoming WAFA Division I football ...
APRM holds Inaugural Governance Forum

The Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), which is an instrument voluntarily acceded to by member states for self-evaluation to monitor compliance to the NEPAD Declaration on Democracy, Political, Economic and Cooperate Governance on ...

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Security Council welcomes agreement by Guineans to resolve differences peacefully

29 April 2013 150 The Security Council today welcomed the joint declaration of non-violence signed last week in Conakry between the main Guinean stakeholders in which they committed themselves to resolve all differences exclusively through peaceful means.

In a statement issued to the press, the 15-member Council also welcomed the declaration by President Alpha Cond233; whereby he expressed his readiness to ensure the transparency and the credibility of the electoral process, and committed himself to accepting the results of the upcoming legislative elections.

In March, protests in the West African nation related to the polls led to several deaths and hundreds of injuries. At that time, both Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the UN human rights office appealed for calm amid the violence and urged political actors in Guinea to pursue dialogue to create conditions for peaceful elections.

The Council, which was briefed last Thursday on the situation in Guinea by Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, expressed its concern over the "volatile situation" in the country.

"The members of the Security Council deplored the violent incidents that occurred during the demonstrations in Conakry on 25 April 2013, which resulted in the death of one person and injured a number of others. ...