An Indian college is training 12 Sierra Leonean women to become solar engineers as part of a drive to bring electricity to rural communities.
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/ 30 December 2010
Defending champions Egypt are teetering on the brink of elimination from the African Nations Cup going into the new year.
WikiLeaks cables show US concern that cartels are trafficking in the region on a massive scale.
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/ 11 October 2010
Sierra Leone held Group G leader South Africa to a 0-0 draw in their African Cup of Nations qualifying match on Sunday.
A former rebel chief in Sierra Leone told a court on Monday that he never received weapons from former Liberia president Charles Taylor.
The challenge was to create a "tribe" — a global online community to run a very real village on a remote island in an ambitious eco-tourism.
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/ 23 September 2009
Climate change caused the deaths of 10 people in Sierra Leone.
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/ 14 September 2009
Church bells rang out as Sierra Leone on Monday marked a day of mourning for the victims of last week’s ferry disaster.
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/ 11 September 2009
The captain of a ferry that sank off Sierra Leone leaving more than 200 people feared drowned ignored warnings that it was about to capsize.
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/ 10 September 2009
About 200 people, including a large number of children, are missing after a river boat sank in Sierra Leone, the government said on Thursday.
Charles Taylor begins his defence on Monday against charges he led rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered, raped and mutilated villagers.
Diamond mining in Sierra Leone is following a global economic trend with miners turning to gold.
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/ 25 February 2009
The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted three rebel leaders on Wednesday of crimes against humanity and war crimes.
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/ 25 February 2009
Former Liberian president Charles Taylor could be set free because of the effect of the global economic crisis on funding for the court.
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/ 25 February 2009
Sierra Leone’s war crimes court will hand down its verdict on Wednesday against three rebels accused of committing atrocities during the civil war.
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/ 24 February 2009
Sierra Leone’s war crimes tribunal will hand down a verdict on Wednesday against three rebel RUF commanders accused of carrying out a killing spree.
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/ 30 October 2008
Sierra Leonean support for Obama transcends age and religious differences, writes Olusegun Ogundeji.
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/ 24 October 2008
Taxi drivers in Sierra Leone attract young passengers by providing CD players and DVDs showing the latest hip-hop videos on TV screens hooked up to th
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/ 10 October 2008
Demolition teams this week smashed up popular beach bars as part of an improvement scheme to develop tourism in Sierra’s Leone’s capital, Freetown.
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/ 12 September 2008
Several parts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, were submerged in more than 1m of water on Friday after torrential rain, meteorologists said.
Police in Sierra Leone arrest foreigners and Sierra Leoneans after seizing a record 600kg of cocaine at Lungi International Airport.
One thing going for the Sierra Leone team that will host Bafana is that they have — in Kanu — one of the most respected names in African football.
Bafana Bafana must find a cure for their ”travel sickness” before they tackle Sierra Leone in Freetown in their 2010 African Nations Cup qualifier on Saturday.
Prosecutors for Sierra Leone’s war crimes court are trying to track down -million they say vanished from two United States bank accounts held by former Liberian President Charles Taylor when he was forced from power in 2003. But lawyers defending the former warlord challenged prosecutors to produce evidence that Taylor had salted away state funds for his personal use.
As Sierra Leoneans prepare to celebrate the 47th anniversary of their country’s independence on Sunday, the mood is not festive, but bitter, as people find it more difficult to put food on the table. Rising food prices have swept the West African state, and have also raised expectations on the government to act to soften the blow for consumers.
Africa will be well-placed to weather a global economic downturn if it uses high oil and commodities prices to diversify its economies, one of the continent’s most successful businessmen said in an interview. Nigerian tycoon Aliko Dangote said the world’s poorest continent could benefit while developed nations suffered an economic slowdown.
Dozens of ex-combatants from Sierra Leone’s 10-year civil war gathered on Saturday for ”healing ceremonies” to make peace with victims of the brutal conflict that left thousands dead. ”Small-scale ceremonies have already been held in other parts in the district,” said Beatrice Allie, one of the coordinators of the project.
Sierra Leone’s military chiefs are working on means to downsize from its current 10 000 soldiers to 8 500, Defence Minister Palo Conteh said on Friday, according to a state radio report. ”We cannot allow a large army …We have to downsize to a lean army that can react quickly to a given situation,” he said.
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/ 23 February 2008
A United Nations-backed court on Friday upheld the convictions of three former rebel leaders who were sentenced to half-century prison terms last year for rape, murder and other war crimes committed during Sierra Leone’s decade-long conflict. The three were leaders of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council.
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/ 21 December 2007
Sierra Leone’s economy has, over the years, relied heavily on the mining sector in general and diamonds in particular. However, between 1991 and 2000 the country was comprehensively destroyed in a brutal civil war that engulfed the West African state. Seven years after the war was declared over, the country is still struggling to reactivate economic activities from yesteryear.
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/ 16 November 2007
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma promised ”zero tolerance” on Thursday for corruption in his country after a leaked government report said rampant official graft had swallowed up donor funds. Speaking at his formal inauguration in Freetown, the 54-year-old former insurance executive called for a change of attitude in the West African state.
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/ 6 November 2007
The United Nations has bailed out Sierra Leone’s national amputees’ football team with a cash boost that paves way for their participation in the World Cup tournament kicking off at the weekend in Turkey. Team secretary Kemoh Sheriff said the donation shows that ”we are not forgotten”.