Sierra Leone Times news Sierra Leone Times news Rss feed

  • Liberia Woman Faints - During Police Sand Mining Raid

    A woman who claimed to be owner of molded blocks Thursday fainted in the hands of residents of the 11TH Street Community after police confiscated several pieces of her blocks in a sand mining raid instituted by the Ministry of Lands and Mining. "Please don't carry my blocks. I have documents to prove that I molded these blocks from river sand," the weeping woman said as she ...

  • Meeting Sierra Leone’s police chief

    Progress and development: Sierra Leone continues to make tremendous progress in the area of maintaining internal security, just as it is with external security. Both the police and the armed forces have all kept excelling in their various constitutional mandates. This is notwithstanding the numerous challenges they are faced with in present day policing. The fact remains the police force has ...

  • South America contraception up to 79 Middle Africa 19

    Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women worldwide wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low. A young Chinese boy walks past a neighborhood 'sex shop', full of contraceptive suggestions, in central Beijing. (UPI ...

  • Liberias Johnson-Sirleaf defends governance record

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on Friday defended her government's record on good governance and transparency, following an independent audit that cast doubt on her anti-corruption ...

  • Divided Europe veers between urgent growth and bleak austerity

    Angela Merkel 's pro-austerity policies soon after becoming president in May last year, blamed the tough cutbacks regime imposed on troubled economies for much of Europe's economic problems. "What is hitting Europe is a recession provoked by the austerity policy," Hollande said at a Paris news conference. The president was especially keen to pin the blame on European ...

Movie Review

Australia

Australia

Australia is Baz Luhrmanns first film since 2001s postmodern musical pastiche Moulin Rouge!, and I am genuinely surprised that he opted not to put an exclamation point at the end of his magnum opus title given the passion with which he tears into this outback romantic epic. ... ...

On Facebook

  • Covenant Child World Ministries Women are hosting a Breakfast Fellowship tomorrow

    YOU ARE INVITED TO OUR WOMEN’S BREAKFAST TOMORROW……. THE COVENANT CHILD WORLD MINISTRIES WILL BE HOSTING A WOMEN'S BREAKFAST FELLOWSHIP AT THE CARIBBEAN PALACE HALL ON SATURDAY MAY 18, 2013 AT 9 : 30 AM. ALL ARE INVITED . COME AND FELLOWSHIP WITH US. THIS FELLOWSHIP WILL MOTIVATE YOU AND THE WORD OF GOD WILL CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER. THE THEME OF THE BREAKFAST IS ...

  • Ex-warlord Prince Johnson quits his own party in Liberia

    MONROVIA, Liberia - Prince Johnson, a former warlord-turned-politician who is best known for having videotaped himself overseeing the torture of Liberia's ex-president, announced Friday he is quitting the political party he founded. For years since the end of Liberia's civil war, Johnson has tried to erase his violent past, first becoming an evangelical pastor, and later running for ...

  • The complicated nature of our reality Will President Koroma seek a third term

    Yes, the world might give kudos to the ‘overwhelming development' going on in a country that is still nowhere near what it used to be. But to the average Sierra Leonean, all that is going on in the nation's economic realm right now is like a doctor prescribing a terminal patient with panadol. To the average Sierra Leonean, the government is spending money on some symbols that ...

  • China Kingho may spend up to $10-billion in Sierra Leone

    A truck is loaded with iron ore at a port in Nantong, China, May 5, 2013. China Kingho Energy Group, one of China's largest privately-owned energy companies, could spend between $6-billion (U.S.) and $10-billion on infrastructure projects in Sierra Leone over the next five years, with an emphasis on iron ore production. (CHINA ...

  • U.S. warns of violence in Ivory Coast

    Ivory Coast could quickly deteriorate despite recent security gains, the U.S. State Department warned. Ivory Coast was pushed to the brink of civil following contested elections in 2010. Former Ivorian ...

More Sierra Leone Times news