(Nairobi) – The Sierra Leone authorities should open a criminal investigation of a suspected arms supplier for his alleged involvement in international crimes during Sierra Leone’s civil war. This would be Sierra Leone’s first purely domestic prosecution in relation to war crimes or crimes against humanity committed during its 11-year armed conflict, which ended in 2002.  https://www.hrw.org/news/2013/06/19/sierra-leone-investigate-alleged-rebel-arms-supplier

The Cartage Eagles of Tunisia (in photo) secured their place in the knockout stage on the road to Brazil when they played 1-1 draw at the Estadio de Malabo on Sunday against host Equatorial Guinea. Equatorial Guinea registered their opening goal from the spot by Juvenal in the 36th minute; however the North Africans levelled […]

Leone Stars have been thrown out of the race to go through to the next round of 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying after a 1-0 defeat at the hands of the Blue Sharks of Cape Verde in the penultimate round of qualifiers in Praia on Saturday. The team conceded an early goal in the 12th […]

African Minerals Ltd. (AMI), studying a $2 billion iron-ore mine expansion in Sierra Leone, is considering acquisitions in commodities such as copper and steelmaking raw materials. “There are significant opportunities in West Africa, across commodities and across countries, that we will be extremely well-positioned to take advantage of,” Chief Executive Officer Keith Calder said in […]

The Every One Campaign championed by Save the Children International, has organized a forum at the Presidential Lounge, National Stadium, to discuss pertinent issues affecting maternal and infant health and mortality in the country.An appalling statistics revealed during power-point presentations from officials of the Health Ministry and Save the Children indicate that every year, a […]

Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma’s government has drawn up a 30-year plan to transform the country from a fragile low income state into a middle income nation. “As a way of doing that, we have developed what we now call our agenda for prosperity, which is a five-year cascading plan that will lead into […]

Leone Stars striker Kei Kamara has received the 2012 sierraleonefootball.com Sierra Leonean player of the year award five months after he was announced as the winner of the maiden prestigious award by living legend Mohamed Kallon. The 28-year old based in the USA picked up the award in a ceremony chaired by popular Sports presenter […]

African Union Mission in Somalia’s (AMISOM) Senior Public Information Officer, Mr. Eloi Yao has commended Sierra Leone for being the first country outside East Africa to deploy its troops. He made this disclosure at a two-day communications workshop organized by the AMISOM in Kampala, Uganda over the weekend. The workshop was attended by 59 participants […]

SIERRA LEONE and RUSSIA – Sierra Leone’s Ambassador, John Sahr Yambasu, has confirmed that a fisheries agreement will be signed between Sierra Leone and Russia in Moscow in June/July 2013. Awareness Times reports that the ambassador made the announcement during a plenary meeting between the two countries. At the meeting, Ambassador Yambasu said that the fisheries […]

Ambassador, Dr. Christian Sheka Kargbo (in photo) has finally left Brussels for Freetown, bringing to an end his five year tour of duties as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Belgium and Head of Mission to the European Commission. He left Brussels yesterday, Friday, June 7th on board Brussels Airlines after surrendering his Diplomatic […]