The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved the Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea (CLSG) electricity networks interconnection project. The total financing by the AfDB (African Development Fund, Fragile States Facility and Nigeria Trust Fund) amounts to US$195 million, representing roughly 40% of the total project cost. The project will secure power supply for […]

As a way of expanding their operations and to fulfil their aspiration of making Freetown International Airport the hub of West African and European travellers, the Gambia Bird Airways, on Monday inaugurated their biggest flight, a Boeing 757, which will ply the route from Freetown to London and back. https://awoko.org/2013/11/13/sierra-leone-news-gambia-bird-inaugurates-direct-flight-to-london/

Cisco has launched an Application-centric infrastructure that will help businesses in Nigeria unlock new routes to innovation and profit. At the launch recently, General Manager Cisco, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra-Leone, Mr. Dare Ogunlade, said: “A new paradigm shift driven by cloud, mobility and big data is redefining Information Technology (IT), with the web-based economy […]

Leone, mothers stand in line with their infants to receive free immunizations provided by the government.  This is a hopeful picture for a country that is one of the least safe places in the world for a woman to give birth, with one out of every seven women dying during pregnancy or childbirth. But as […]

Sierra Leone has failed to meet the benchmarks for the Millennium Challenge Cooperation [MCC], hence causing the West African country to miss out on vital funding, which has now been deferred. The MCC sets specific standards for qualification of any country for funding. Among the benchmarks, Sierra Leone passed those of inflation, regulatory quality, trade […]

DALLAS – Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier and current UNICEF advocate for children’s rights, started his lecture at Misericordia University by talking about storytelling. As a child in Sierra Leone, Beah listened to stories around the campfire. He told the audience he knew he had to pay close attention, because adults would quiz him […]

The recent investment includes the launch of a new airside facility in Dakar, Senegal, and the addition of 3 aircraft – a Boeing 757 and two ATR72s CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, November 11, 2013/– DHL (https://www.dhl.com), the world’s leading logistics company. has announced an investment in both a facility and air infrastructure in West Africa, to meet the […]

Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia on Sunday 10 Novemberjoined a battery of diplomats in attending the Remembrance Day in reminiscenceof the war dead during the World Wars of 1914-1918 and 1939-1945. The wreath of the Sierra Leone Embassy was laid by His Excellency Andrew Gbebay Bangali. https://allafrica.com/stories/201311121037.html

The Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has officially released results of the July 2013 Basic Education Certificate Examination, which had an entry of over 70, 000 (seventy thousand) candidates. The examination was conducted for over 600 (six hundred) Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) whose pupils took the exams in 202 centers country wide.

Dakar, Nov.12 (SLENA) – Authorities in Sierra Leone must drop all charges against two print journalists granted bail on November 4 after 18 days of detention, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has stated. The journalists have been charged with criminal defamation for publishing an article critical of the Sierra Leonean President, Ernest Bai Koroma. https://www.sierraexpressmedia.com/archives/62860