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The Chairman of one of the world’s most successful diversified investment companies has reiterated his interest to invest in Sierra Leone.  (Photo: One-on-one with HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud) In a brief interview with His Royal Highness (HRH) Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of the ‘highly reputed’ Kingdom Holding Company […]

Sierra Leone youth side will play against Guinea U-20 category and Liberia in the U-17 category in CAF  qualifiers for Senegal-2015 Orange African Youth Championship on the weekend of the 4,5,6 April, and Niger-2015 African Championship Qualifiers on the weekend of the 13,14,15 June respectively.The return legs will be played two weeks later. https://awoko.org/2014/01/29/sierra-leone-sports-salone-to-engage-guinea-in-african-youth-championship/

Golden Saint Resources (LON:GSR) sponsored an application for five licences for local miners in Sierra Leone, it said. The licences in the Tongo and Baja project areas have been approved for a year and initial mining is planned for the first quarter of this year before the wet season. https://www.proactiveinvestors.co.uk/companies/news/65324/golden-saint-resources-sponsors-local-mining-bid-in-sierra-leone-65324.html

Selected court monitors from the chiefdoms in Kenema district have undergone a training to ensure accountability and administration of all matters relating to ownership of land, property inheritance affecting women in those chiefdoms. The training was conducted by a local Non- Governmental Organization (NGO) called the Movement for Resettlement and Rural Development (MoRD) so they […]

LONDON, January 23, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — West Africa is an area of high risk but potentially high reward. If you get a mining investment right there is a significant amount of money to be made. The challenge is managing political, infrastructural and security risks. These are some of the key issues being discussed this April at the West […]

Sierra Leone international midfielder cum-defender, David Simbo, has for the first time revealed reason for his decision to join Sudanese side Al Hilal from Sweden. The 25-year-old, who last December signed a one-and-half year deal with the Sudanese club, said it was not an easy decision to quit the European scene to play back in […]

Tranmere manager Ronnie Moore has urged Sierra Leone international winger, Abdulai Baggie, to raise his game and force his way back to the first team. Bell-Baggie has been cast in the shadows since the loan signings of Kris Peterson from Liverpool and Matt Kennedy from Everton, who were both brought into the first team at […]

Sierra Leonean champions Diamond Stars’ caretaker coach, Derrick Boison, is planning to cause one of the biggest upsets in this year’s CAF Champions League when his side takes on former African Champions and 2013 FIFA World Club Cup runners-up, Raja Casablanca of Morocco. Diamond Stars will travel to Casablanca for the preliminary round first leg […]

At the Wednesday, Jan. 22, Coffee Break meeting held at Sunnyside Christian Reformed Church, missionary Petra Worrell will be the guest speaker. https://eaglenewspapers.media.clients.ellingtoncms.com/static/ellington_defaults/2.3.0/images/buttons/innerlink_button.png); color: rgb(18, 90, 149); opacity: 0; display: inline-block; position: absolute; width: 16px; height: 16px; z-index: -1000; left: 0px; transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in, left 0.2s ease-in; -webkit-transition: opacity 0.1s ease-in, left 0.2s ease-in; […]

China will expand trade with Sierra Leone this year to a record $2 billion as the world’s largest user of iron ore seeks more of the material for steelmaking. Trade will rise 33 percent from about $1.5 billion in 2013, Johnson Jiang, commercial secretary at the Chinese embassy, said in an interview in Sierra Leone’s […]