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  • Zainab Bangura sexual violence is a crime with long and infamous history

    By CHERNOR OJUKU -SESAY : United Nations Secretary General's Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict, Zainab Hawa Bangurahas 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 boys. Addressing a group of women participants from 62 organisations at the Permanent Mission of ...

  • Ambassador Stevens commends Peace Corps

    By PASCO TEMPLE : Sierra Leone's Ambassador Bockari Kortu Stevens 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 infrastructure. Addressing the Peace Corps at a farewell ...

  • London Mining donates medical items to Lunsar Health Clinic

    Speaking at the handing over ceremony of the items, Community Relations and Resettlement Manager, Mr. Desmond Doherty, said that London Mining Company is in a good relationship with the Lunsar community and wants to maintain that. Late Annette Robert who was working with LMC created the relationship and LMC will continue its relationship by supporting the medical center, said Mr. ...

  • AIRTEL puts a smile on the faces of retailers

    Speaking with the Zonal Manager Abdulai Dizo Kamara, he said that this promotion is done to boost the retailers. Airtel wants to appreciate the retailers also for satisfying their customers with top up at all times. Zonal Manager assured retailers that this love will continue in different ...

  • ENCISS strengthens the relationship between Civil Society and the State

    Civil Society Representative Mr. Paul Koroma said that they affirm government's priority to engage the youth in productive activities, economic advancement, deliver sustainable peace. We are mindful of our right to freedom of expression and also rule of law, availability and access to information, review of the 2012 act- powers to invalid vote by ...

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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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  • Kambia Customs Raise Le5 Billion

    He described himself as the best customs collector that has ever headed the Gbalamuya Customs Post by virtue of the massive revenue he has generated in five ...

  • African Child’s Day Commemorated

    , joined other countries in Africa to commemorate the Day of the African Child in memory of the several innocent African children massacred in Soweto, South Africa in 1976. The theme of this year's Commemoration was, "Eliminating Harmful Social and Cultural Practices Affecting Children, Our Collective ...

  • 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. ...

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