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Sierra Leone’s renowned cricket club, the “Kent Cricket Club (KCC)” has announced that they will provide one year academic scholarship to young cricketers . who participated at the just concluded Lime Line U-12 Cricket Championship 2013 hosted in Freetown from the 6th-14th September 2013. https://awoko.org/2013/10/16/sierra-leone-sports-kcc-to-award-scholarships-to-young-cricketers/

Parishioners took part in a village walk to support an organisation helping children in Sierra Leone. Adults and children gathered at St Mary & St John’s Parish Centre, in Billing Avenue, Finchampstead, in aid of Art Resourceful Tourism Sierra Leone (ARTSL). The organisation, which is in the process of getting charitable status, was established in 2008 and […]

LONDON (Alliance News) – Stellar Diamonds PLC Wednesday said it has completed its first ore blast in its bulk sampling programme at the Tongo Kimberlite Dyke project in Sierra Leone. The AIM-listed diamond development and production company focused in West Africa said the ore blast was completed on schedule, and said it is aiming to […]

Property for rent on a monthly basis. Bothrooms are tastefully furnished and have air conditioning. Great location around the brookfields area.

Kankaylay Girls School, among the first to offer Islamic education to girls in Sierra Leone, has benefitted from a scholarship, learning materials, and the reactivation of its library, by Mohamed Lamin Sesay, a 26-year-old Sierra Leonean student living in the United Kingdom.  (Photo:  Dr Sesay making a speech at Kankaylay School) https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/61734

The Publisher and CEO of the COCORIOKO Newspaper , Rev. Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu , who is also Sierra Leone’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Nations,  has received another coveted award for outstanding Journalism and Community Service. He was one of many distinguished Sierra Leoneans honored with the GEMS OF AFRICA Award yesterday night by the […]

Female footballers who were invited for training to the national U-20 team have expressed their excitement over the invitation and promised to do their best in representing the country. The Sierra Leone U-20 female technical team on Tuesday invited 28-players, and yesterday the players had their first training session at the Football Academy ground, Kingtom […]

UNICEF yesterday handed over 42 motorbikes to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology in a ceremony held at the Ministry in New England. The motorbikes will be used by school monitors and supervisors to access schools to ensure that teaching methods and school environment are improved and school attendance and community involvement increased. https://awoko.org/2013/10/10/sierra-leone-news-unicef-gives-education-ministry-over-42-motorbikes/

In a newspaper article written by Mr. Abdul Fonti (thenewpeople.com, 06/10/13), the author questions whether the President, Dr. Bai Ernest Koroma was becoming a DICTATOR. According to the article, “President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma stands accused of putting on display a dictatorship tendency. The President surrendered himself to a barrage […]

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — Sierra Leone officials say they are bolstering security in response to the heightened threat posed by the Islamic extremist rebels of al-Shabab expressing concern the West African nation could be targeted because of its support for peacekeeping operations in Somalia. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/sierra-leone-ramps-up-security-to-prevent-al-shabab-attack-over-somalia-deployment/2013/10/09/6e8c0664-30e9-11e3-ad00-ec4c6b31cbed_story.html