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  • Sierra Leonean president to visit China

    Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma will visit China at the end of June, the Chinese Embassy in Freetown said on Tuesday.Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone Kuang Weilin told journalists here that President Koroma was invited by Tsinghua University to attend the World Peace Conference in Beijing, capital city of China.During President Koroma's visit to China, he is expected to hold ...

  • 100 pack funeral for woman killed in building collapse

    Mourners leave Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Darby after the funeral for Roseline Conteh, who died June 5 in the collapse of a building on Market Street in Philadelphia. (APRIL SAUL / ...

  • $36 Million for FBC Renovation by a government of the people.

    $36 Million for FBC Renovation by a government of the people. For several years, Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone, has been suffering from congestion as its antiquated infrastructure can no longer cope with the growing number of students and lecturers, especially when the historic college has never undergone any major rehabilitation since it was established several decades ago. ...

  • Sierra Leone Needs More Friends Like Saudi Arabia

    By Sydney Pratt in Freetown : The last five years have seen rapid development in Sierra Leone as a whole. This cannot be denied! We have witnessed massive road construction not seen in a very long time in this country. We have witnessed dramatic turnaround in our energy sector. We have for the very first time concretized free health care for pregnant women, lactating mothers and children ...

  • Victor Foh takes leave of President Koroma

    The newly appointed Ambassador Extra-Ordinary and Plenipotentiary to the People’s Republic of China, Hon. Victor Bockarie Foh has officially taken leave of His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma at the Credentials Hall, Office of the President, State House, Freetown. Making a short statement at the ceremony, His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma paid glowing tribute to Hon. Victor Bockarie Foh ...

Movie Review

The Winslow Boy

David Mamet, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and filmmaker who has created an indelible name for himself writing hard-hitting modern American dramas and complex mysteries involving con games, seems like the least likely candidate in the world to adapt "The Winslow Boy," Terence Rattigan's 1946 play about a proud British family that uses its entire family fortune to defend one of their own a ... ...

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  • Fourah Bay College How much lower

    In those formative years and for decades to follow, people came from as far as Britain, South Africa, Namibia, Nigeria and Ghana to name a few countries to enroll at the FBC as students. The college has and still continues to benefit from the experiences and knowledge of foreign lecturers as well. Despite these fine overtures, Fourah Bay College (FBC), we dare say, has had its toll of violent ...

  • Zainab Bangura lectures European Women on sex violence in Brussels

    has said Sexual violence in conflict is a crime with a long and infamous history, a crime that is not only perpetrated against women and girls but also men and ...

  • rra Leonean Researcher to Deliver University of Lagos Distinguished Public Lecture

    When Washington, DC based, Sierra Leonean researcher, Professor Abdul Karim Bangura delivers the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Distinguished Public Lecture Thursday at 10 am in the Main Auditorium, he will strive to establish a correlation between the democracy project and the human condition across the African ...

  • Who’s responsible for the decline of education in Sierra Leone

    Who's responsible for the decline in education in Sierra Leone? The daring blame-game question comes from nine year-old Solomon Lewis of the St. Augustine Services Primary School in Gondama Barracks, which houses the ...

  • “Peace Corps Are Great Ambassadors” Ambassador Bockari Stevens

    Sierra Leone's Ambassador Bockari Kortu Stevens (in photo) accredited to the United States of America has told 43 departing American Peace Corps bound for the west Africa Nation that their services have not only helped capacitate Sierra Leoneans, but have also helped developed the country's educational and health ...

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