U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE STATEMENT BY SECRETARY KERRY On the Occasion of the Republic of Sierra Leone’s National Day On behalf of all Americans, I send best wishes to the people of Sierra Leone as they celebrate 52 years of independence on April 27. We congratulate Sierra Leone on having completed last year its third […]

Sierra Leonean born Nathaniel Chalobah (in photo), wonder striker in the first-half against Leicester on Friday, has kept the Watford race for automatic promotion alive in the Npower English premier league. The 18-year-old midfielder, on loan from Chelsea, smashed home a 30-yard drive two minutes after Troy Deeney had poked the ball in from six yards […]

Norwich City boss Chris Hughton admitted he could be tempted to make Kei Kamara’s stay at Carrow Road more permanent. The on-loan Sierra Leone striker is due to return to Sporting Kansas City at the end of this season. But Hughton said: “We have to make a decision on whether to make that a longer period. […]

President Ernest Bai Koroma will appear on the 2013 edition of the TIME MAGAZINE as one of its 100 most influential persons in the world.The April 2013 edition of the TIME will mark the publication’s 10th anniversary, and President Koroma becomes the first Sierra Leonean President to attain such an international recognition as TIME’s 100 […]

The World Bank’s analysis of Africa’s economies which is published in Africa’s Pulse has placed Sierra Leone on top of China as one of the world’s fastest growing economies.Authored by the Chief Economist of the World Bank with data from the Development Prospects Group Sierra Leone was ranked top among the list of “fastest growing […]

BANJUL, The Gambia–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Travel within West Africa and to Europe has just become even easier to book: all flights by Gambia Bird can now be booked online through the airline’s website. Customers can search for seats either for a specific travel date or in a “low fare calendar” which displays the cheapest tickets for […]

A Wimbledon singer with an inspirational story will perform a free gig next month. Lead singer Yasmin Kadi of Kadi and the Trix fled Sierra Leone 17 years ago during the civil war. She won a scholarship to a Chiswick stage school and worked as an actress in a number of West End musicals before […]

The amazing story of the traditional songs and dances, passed down over hundreds of years, that have tied a small Caribbean ethnic group to a remote African tribe   Chief Mabadu Pokawa can hardly believe it. His voice wavering somewhere between astonishment and hope, he asks whether I recorded the songs and dances he is […]

Milla Group the leading plastic manufacturing company in the country at Bai Bureh Road, Fisher Lane, Kissy, has unveiled new plastic products such as PVC pipes for plumbing, water tanks, plastic chairs and other household plastic wares.   (Photo: Milla Group Made in Sierra Leone products on display at the National Stadium International Trade fair and Exhibition […]

A song ‘Jesus I love you’ is among nine songs in a album title ‘ba lai tima’ a phrase in Mende, meaning ‘don’t listen to them’ done by a Sierra Leonean, Augustine Conteh, based in the United States of America, is to be launched in Freetown soon.In an interview, Augustine Conteh aka ‘ Master Augie’ […]