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CultureStudents Try to Save Slave Island in Sierra Leone

Saturday, 06 February 2010

article thumbnailSome former slave ports in Africa are now tourist destinations, but not Bunce Island in Sierra Leone. It's abandoned and its slave castle is in ruins. The British established Bunce Island as a...
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BusinessHow did Sierra Leone perform in the year 2009 – Failed economy or a slow gradual process of growth?

Tuesday, 05 January 2010

article thumbnail The year 2009 was a very remarkable year for Sierra Leone. As the dust of Ernest Koroma’s assumption of office was just settling by mid-2008, the global financial crunch struck, leaving a...
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NewsLogging exports banned in Sierra Leone

Saturday, 02 January 2010

article thumbnailThe government in Sierra Leone announced Friday an immediate ban on the transport and export of logs, in an effort to crackdown on a largely uncontrolled, multi-million-dollar industry.
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CultureButterflies of Sierra Leone

Saturday, 02 January 2010

article thumbnail Blue Swallowtail or known as Papilio zalmoxis or giant blue Ornithoptera, found in many countries of Africa, like Sierra Leone, Nigeria and others.The top of the fore and hind-wings are vivid...
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NewsSierra Leone lights up from Bumbuna dam

Monday, 28 December 2009

article thumbnailThe Bumbuna hydroelectric dam project is seen in this Oct. 20, 2007 file photo. President Ernest Bai Koroma made delivering electricity to the country his number one priority and now the dam...
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BusinessCassava Production Rising in Sierra Leone

Sunday, 27 December 2009

article thumbnailFive new cassava processing centres in Sierra Leone are expected to boost production of the crop and to inspire agricultural growth in the region. The processing centres are part of a $1.6...
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  • Nigeria: Yar'Adua Should 1:08 (GMT) - 9.02.2010

    Nigeria's President Umar Musa Yar'Adua should not wait until he is forced out. After all, he has been out of the country for almost four months, reportedly in a Saudi hospital receiving treatment for a critical heart condition.

  • West Africa: West African Collaboration for Gender Equality Enhanced by New UN Initiative 22:34 (GMT) - 8.02.2010

    Gender equality, respect for women's rights and the fight against sexual violence in West Africa received a new weapon in its arsenal today with the launch of a United Nations initiative to enhance cooperation among all stakeholders in the region.

  • Nigeria: An Appeal to MEND 19:47 (GMT) - 8.02.2010

    LAST November, barely a month after the Federal Government rounded off its amnesty programme, complaints began about the programme.

  • Ghana: Newspaper Reporter Attacked 16:05 (GMT) - 8.02.2010

    Jos Garneo Cephas, a reporter with Daily Guide, a privately-owned Accra-based newspaper was on January 22, 2010 reportedly assaulted at a magistrate court in Accra for photographing five military personnel standing trial for murder.

  • Nigeria: The Murderers in CAF 15:58 (GMT) - 8.02.2010

    THE just concluded African Nations Cup finals in Angola began on a sad note - for the Togolese national team at least. The bus ferrying the team, players and officials, was callously and brutally attacked by Cabinda rebels in Angola on their way in from their Congo training base. That attack left two Togolese members of the delegation and a third Angolan driver dead.

  • Nigeria: Super Eagles Technical Adviser to Emerge End of February 15:15 (GMT) - 8.02.2010

    The Nigeria Football Federation has penciled down five foreign coaches of which three would be recommended to the executive board by the technical committee and finally, one candidate would be named as the technical adviser of the Super Eagles at the end of this month.

  • WEST & CENTRAL AFRICA: Communities on the edge

    DAKAR Friday, February 05, 2010 (IRIN) - Natural disasters, epidemics and political unrest deal a particularly heavy blow to communities in West and Central Africa, where people live in a ā€œfragileā€ state daily, UN Children’s Fund said on 4 February.

  • GUINEA: Timeline - toward peace and prosperity?

    CONAKRY Friday, February 05, 2010 (IRIN) - Guineans say they are daring to hope for a peaceful transition to civilian rule, as the military junta – now with a new leader – has vowed to step down and a civilian prime minister has been sworn in to organize elections.

  • AFRICA: Making the case against counterfeit drugs

    LOME Friday, February 05, 2010 (IRIN) - The fight against fake medicines requires a united public-private front to overcome people's resistance to health warnings and to dismantle increasingly sophisticated trafficking networks, medical professionals said at a meeting in the Togolese capital LomƩ.

  • GHANA: Slow progress on oil policy

    ACCRA Thursday, February 04, 2010 (IRIN) - Ghana needs to do more to ensure that revenue from oil production, due to start later in the year, successfully reduces poverty and avoids a ā€œresource curseā€, according to civil society leaders worried that safeguards are either inadequate or absent.

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  • Microsoft launches Vista software in Amharic 23:28 (GMT) - 6.02.2010

    US software giant Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia. "Launching the Amharic version software is a major step forward for Amharic to be a language of technology", Director of the Ethiopian ICT Development Agency (EICTDA), Debretsion Gebremichael has said. 40 scholars from the Addis Ababa University…

  • Stanchart Bank strikes deal with Chinese firm 12:09 (GMT) - 4.02.2010

    Standard Chartered Bank and China Unionpay have struck a deal that will enable Unionpay cardholders worldwide access the bank's ATM services in 20 countries in Africa. China has over the last decade become the world's largest investor into Africa, injecting billions of dollars in various projects across the continent. Analysts say no signal…

  • MCA spreads wings to Zambia, Malawi 12:06 (GMT) - 4.02.2010

    United States supported, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCA), has announced its plans to expand its operations in Africa as more countries meet democracy requirements. Africa, which accounts for about 70 percent of the corporation’s total funding of $5.2 billion, has 11 countries where so-called compacts, or programs, are underway. MCA…

  • I. Coast: Biggest market burnt down 11:40 (GMT) - 1.02.2010

    The biggest second hand market - 'Adjame Black Market' - in Abidjan, the capital city of Ivory Coast, was razed down early Saturday morning at about 5:00 am causing extensive damage to hundreds of shops where you can get textiles, clothes, computers, Freezers, mobile phones, building materials, carpentry and handcrafts. It is a sight visited…

  • Ethiopia: AU focus on hydro project 11:31 (GMT) - 1.02.2010

    Continued economic developments across the continent have necessitated the need to expedite the implementation of a massive hydro power project by the African Union (AU). The project dubbed ā€˜Hydropower 2020’ is an initiative of the African Union that seeks to increase power generation capacity for Africa and enhance socio-economic development…

  • Zambia: Inflation continues to decline 12:09 (GMT) - 28.01.2010

    The Zambian annual rate of inflation for the month of January 2010 has recorded a decline of 0.3 percentage points and now stands at 9.6 percent. The Central Statistical Office has attributed this reduction to the 3.6 percentage point decrease in some food prices while non-food products in the consumer price index accounted for six percentage points.…

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