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If the urgent necessary actions are not taken now by the Government of Liberia to sustain the already existing stability in Western Liberia, ‘things may just fall apart.’ This a a result of the brewing tension in Porkpa District, Grand Cape Mount County following the arrest and prolong detention of some Liberians over a farm […]

An Examiner of the Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music in the United Kingdom has completed practical music examinations at the Ballanta Music Academy.Clive Simmonds, examined thirty-four candidates including nine from the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces band in varied instruments to include, the piano, singing, cornet, trombone, tuba and saxophone. The youngest […]

  Local Non Governmental Organization (NGO) DEZ INVESTMENT CLEANING COMPANY is set to make public their cleaning equipment which includes a brand new Toyota Hiace and other cleaning utensils to help complement the effort of the Ernest Bai Koroma government. Speaking to the Managing Director of the company, Mr. Desmond Scot, he told Sierra Express Media that […]

ST. HELENA ISLAND – When Beaufort Mayor Billy Keyserling learned that a group of soccer players maimed in Sierra Leone’s recent civil war was planning to visit here, Instead, Keyserling helped organize an event Thursday at Penn Center that reinforced the cultural ties between the West African nation and the Gullah community of South Carolina’s […]

CHESTER, Pa. (Via Philadelphia Union) – Philadelphia Union midfielder Michael Lahoud has been called up to the Sierra Leone National Team for the second leg of a 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifying match May 31 against the national team of Swaziland, the club announced today. Lahoud and his squad will take on Swaziland at their home venue […]

It was a tepid and weak performance from Sierra Rangers, and a win would have helped build confidence and move us in the 2nd place of our Group. As with the England game, ABK (assistant coach) started with an unfamiliar line-up featuring Issa kamara partnering Francis in the center of midfield, Kelly Marrah on the left, […]

SOCCER – MANZINI Sundowns’ midfield-cum-defender Sabelo ‘Sawa’ Gamedze is unlikely to return for second leg of the 2015 AFCON qualifiers clash against Sierra Leone. The player was dropped from the squad just before the first leg of the clash played at the Somhlolo National Stadium after coming down with chicken pox. Sihlangu’s head-coach Harries ‘Madze’ […]

Orange on Monday agreed to sell its 65.9% stake in Orange Uganda to Lebanon-based Africell. The deal adds a fourth market to Africell’s footprint. The telco currently has operating subsidiaries in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, and Sierra Leone. The group currently has more than 9 million active subscribers and expects to grow to […]

ISHMAEL Beah’s 2007 memoirs, A Long Way Gone, was a brave, brutal, haunting and horrific glimpse into the life of child soldiers in Sierra Leone. Prior to the decade-long civil war that began in 1992, Beah’s life was simple: he hung out with his older brother and friends, trying to rap and dance to hip hop […]

The Country’s leading GSM operator, Airtel-Sierra Leone, on Tuesday 13 May 2014 launched its fourth season of Africa’s largest youth football initiative ‘Airtel Rising Stars’ with the mission to take football to all the 149 chiefdoms in the country. In his statement during a well-attended ceremony chaired by Airtel’s June-Rose Johnson at the company headquarter […]