Ban Ki Moon arrives today at the start of a two day visit to Sierra Leone.This visit is largely to celebrate 15 years of UN peace keeping and peace building operations in Sierra Leone, which comes to an end on the 31st March 2014. For the UN there is something to celebrate, and for Sierra […]

Chinese Ambassador Zhao Yanbo since his arrival in Sierra Leone has been paying courtesies to government officials to familiarise himself with the workings in Sierra Leone. In the past week, he started paying courtesies to government officials.  He paid a courtesy call on Hon. Chief Justice of Sierra Leone Mrs. Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh at her […]

Bo, March 1 (SLENA) – The Local Councils Internal Public Expenditure Financial Accountability (PEFA) workshop organized by the Public Financial Management Reform Unit (PFMRU) of the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED) continued in Bo with six local councils drawn from the four regions of the country as participants. https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/65631

Stellar Diamonds raised £314 914 after they exercised over 28 million warrants by two of its supportive major shareholders that will help fund its on-going definitive feasibility study at its 1.1 m carat Tongo Dyke-1 kimberlite project in Sierra Leone, which has a 1.1 million carat resource. https://www.miningreview.com/stellar-diamonds-raised-314k-to-fund-tongo-project/

Early Sunday morning, March 2, 2014, this paper received from the outgoing leadership of the Sports Writers Association of Liberia (SWAL),the heartbreaking news that Liberia’s first ever female sports journalist madam Ena Kebbeh Harmon is dead. When our reporter received the sms message from SWAL Vice President Martina Brooks who’s walking in the shadow of […]

As the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Executive continues to strengthen ties with diplomatic missions in the country, the Chinese Embassy in Sierra Leone has offered one Masters Scholarship to the Association as part of their support to the media. This offer was made yesterday Wednesday when the Executive paid a courtesycall on the […]

Do away with the notion that it has to get worse before it gets better. The ugly incidents in the Central African Republic (CAR) defies the adage and makes the African continent like a floating, uncontrolled rig on uncharted waters. Like a seasoned cop would askwho is responsible, the answer here would not be clear […]

Helen Keller International, a Non-Governmental Organisation in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation has officially launched the Six Months Contact Point for Vitamin A Supplement for children under five years, including the new revised child health cards. The ceremony took place at the Hastings Twin-Centre, were visiting officials from Helen Keller International in […]

“It has never happened in the history of Sierra Leone for a mining company to boost education when they are at the exploration stage, but Golden Saint Resources Limited has set the pace.” These were the exact words of the Paramount Chief of Badjia Chiefdom in Bo District, PC Samba B. Hindowa V. https://allafrica.com/stories/201402201558.html

The Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA), with support from the European Union, will facilitate the participation of 10 local businesses in the 2014 edition of Ghana Trade Fair Exhibition. The 10 businesses were selected from among 40 businesses that applied for the Ghana Trade Fair scheduled to take place in Accra between […]