Sierra Leone News
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Sierra Leoneans cheered or quietly let the news sink in on Thursday as ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor was convicted of aiding and abetting a terror campaign by rebels during their country's 11-year civil war. Victims, leaders and civil society representatives packed the headquarters of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), a modern building in the lush, hilly capital, to
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New York - A top UN envoy on Thursday called on the impoverished Sierra Leone government to explain why it has imported several million dollars worth of assault weapons for a police paramilitary wing. The country is still rebuilding after a civil war that ended a decade ago and with political tensions high ahead of a presidential election in November.
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Freetown - A cholera outbreak in northern Sierra Leone has claimed the lives of 17 people since mid-February, district medical officer Tom Sesay said on Thursday. "Cholera has gripped the districts of Port Loko and Kambia," the doctor said, adding that around 433 people had been admitted to hospital and emergency health teams where investigating the origins of the outbreak.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — The top opposition presidential candidate is accusing Sierra Leone's ruling party of provoking violence ahead of November polls. Retired Brig. Gen. Julius Maada Bio alleged late Monday that the government wants to use the violence to call a state of emergency and extend the president's tenure. The ruling party did not comment Tuesday on Bio's
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Freetown — The launch of Sierra Leone's first online mining database in West Africa comes with a promise to increase transparency and accountability in the country's rich natural resource sector. "This system will stamp out all forms of malpractice in terms of licensing, financial management and general information pertaining to the mining sector," said Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources
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When Sierra Leone's brutal civil war was declared over in January 2002, Britain's then-prime minister Tony Blair was welcomed as a hero for the role his troops played in pushing the rebels out of Freetown. The west African state marks 10 years of peace Wednesday and Blair -- who has been a close advisor of the regime as it rebuilds
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Freetown - Police in Sierra Leone on Tuesday announced an end to a three-month ban on political rallies which was imposed after clashes between supporters of the ruling party and opposition followers. "The public is hereby informed that the temporary ban is lifted with immediate effect," said a statement from by Inspector-General of Police, Francis Munu. The ban was imposed
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Sierra Leone - A city in Sierra Leone is offering a five-year scholarship to girls who keep their virginity until they complete university. The aim is to cut teenage pregnancies by ensuring "that at least 80% of school going girls keep their virginity until they finish their educational life", said Mathew Margao, council chairman in southern city of Bo. "The
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Sierra Leone's chief electoral commissioner, Christiana Thorpe, said on Thursday presidential, parliamentary and local elections would be held in Sierra Leone on November 17 2012. "The proclamation has been made according to the powers conferred on the electoral commission after consultation with the president of Sierra Leone", Thorpe said in a statement. Five political parties are so far recognised by
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Freetown - Sierra Leone's political and church leaders on Tuesday ruled out legalising same-sex marriages in the West African state, after a British threat to cut aid to nations not recognising gay rights. Deputy Information Minister, Sheka Tarawallie told reporters that "it is not possible that we will legalise same sex marriages as they run counter to our culture". He
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Sierra Leone's political and Church leaders on Tuesday ruled out legalising same-sex marriages in the West African state, after a British threat to cut aid to nations not recognising gay rights. Deputy Information Minister, Sheka Tarawallie told reporters that "it is not possible that we will legalise same sex marriages as they run counter to our culture." He was responding
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The families of eight Sierra Leone war criminals serving their sentence in Rwanda have complained about their treatment in prison there and want them transferred back home. Two family sources, who asked not to be named, told AFP they had called on government to intervene and have the prisoners brought back to finish their sentences in Sierra Leone. Government spokesman
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Freetown - Travellers in Sierra Leone are often impressed by the new, smooth highways built by foreign donors in the West African nation - but they are as amazed by the wreckage from traffic accidents scattered along the way. In a country where enormous foreign aid spending has often produced few tangible results, new roads connecting the capital to major
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National elections will be held in Sierra Leone in late 2012, a decade after the end of the west African state's bloody civil war, the National Electoral Commission said on Saturday.
Official Raymond George said local, parliamentary and presidential polls would take place on one day in the third quarter of the year but declined to
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Maryland — The Honorary Consul of the Republic of South Africa to Sierra Leone, Madam Aminata Kallay has said in Maryland that the government of the Republic of South Africa would soon sponsor thirty-two (32) Cuban medical brigade specialists to work in Sierra Leone for three years.
According to the Consul, a joint agreement meeting was
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Freetown — The house of parliament yesterday approved a "concessional loan" agreement - the Sierra Leone Dedicated Security Information System Project - singed between the government of Sierra Leone as represented by the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (borrower) and the Export-Import Bank of China (lender), dated 17th May 2011.
In his presentation, the Deputy
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Leidschendam — The judgement in the high-profile trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor is expected within months.
Taylor is the first African former head of state to stand trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Charles Taylor was one of Africa's most feared warlords. He fled
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Freetown - Sierra Leone's albinos asked the government for jobs and scholarships to help them fight marginalisation on Friday, as they launched an association to defend their rights.
At an inaugural meeting attended by more than 300 people, the Sierra Leone Albino Association (SLAA) said albinos in the west African country were "facing stigmatisation, marginalisation and
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A tropical plant said to be nutritional dynamite is being plugged by Sierra Leone's government as a natural cure-all in the country, which has some of the worst health indicators in the world.
The Moringa plant, native to northern India, has been called the "tree of life" and its use is spreading in Africa, advocates say,
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Freetown — The six-year-old girl pulls her T-shirt up to show the dozens of pale lines across her back. They are fresh scars from the lashing she received from her caregiver after she lost 500 Leones, the equivalent of about 10 cents.
The burns on her hand are from when her caregiver stuck it in a
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Freetown — As political intolerance and violence across the country took a new dimension over the weekend, the attention of the public, civil society organizations and the media has been drawn again to men of the Sierra Leone Police and their use of excessive force to quell down riotous situations and public disorder.
Though the maintenance
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Freetown - Two children died in a grenade explosion after they found the device, a remnant of the country's civil war, while searching for scrap metal in northern Sierra Leone, police said on Tuesday.
A police statement said 13-year-old Ibrahim Kamara and 15-year-old Lamin Kargbo were among eight youths searching for scrap metal in Port Loko.
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Sierra Leone on Monday announced a probe into violent clashes between the country's two main parties in the city of Bo, which have raised tensions ahead of 2012 elections.
The clashes broke out after the presidential candidate of the main opposition Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) was pelted with stones on Friday, receiving a head wound,
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Violence broke out in Sierra Leone's second largest city Bo Friday when people pelted the main opposition presidential candidate with stones, hitting him on the head, local television reported.
In retaliation, the regional office of the ruling All People's Congress (APC) in the city, 200 miles (300 kilometres) south of the capital, was torched.
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Admire Bio has the reassured presence of a successful businesswoman, with an edge that reveals she is still hungry for more. Bio, 28, a single mother living with her parents, set up her first internet cafe in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown, only a year ago. She has expanded with two more branches, and plans to go national if
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