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Police in Sierra Leone say 221 people are missing after a wooden boat capsized on Tuesday with 268 people on board.

Charles Taylor today accused Britain of transporting arms to Sierra Leone in violation of a United Nations arms embargo on the country, and of using him as a scapegoat by falsely accusing him of responsibility for the flow of arms into the country. Mr. Taylor also denied widespread press and investigative reports that the terrorist group, Al Qaeda, traded diamonds with Sierra Leonean rebels under his supervision in Liberia. (AllAfrica)

NAIROBI Thursday, July 30, 2009 (IRIN) - The humanitarian cavalry is the food airdrop: when you need to shift serious tonnage in a hurry to somewhere inaccessible, nothing quite does it like a large cargo plane and skilled pilot and crew. (irinnews.org)

FREETOWN Thursday, July 30, 2009 (IRIN) - Sierra Leone in 2007 passed innovative laws aimed at reinforcing women’s rights and clamping down on sexual violence, but as the government and social services struggle to implement the laws crimes against women remain rampant, officials say. (irinnews.org)

LOS ANGELES, CA, November 04, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The first annual Ma dengn Beach Festival is scheduled to take place December 19-20, 2009 in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Charles Taylor did not order the execution of Sierra Leonean rebel commander Sam Bockarie, but rather sent his former vice president Moses Blah to arrest him on the Liberian border with Ivory Coast, the accused former Liberian president told Special Court for Sierra Leone judges in The Hague today. (AllAfrica)

How many times must the pres­i­dent of Sierra Leone face media embar­rass­ment because of the lunacy of some of those he appoints as his country's rep­re­sen­ta­tives abroad? What are the tenets of Diplo­matic appoint­ments? (AllAfrica)

Members of the house of parliament of Sierra Leone have re-elected Honourable Chukuma V. Johnson of the All Peoples Congress, APC as deputy speaker of parliament, second time in a row. (AllAfrica)

A high-powered delegation from the Israeli embassy in Dakar, Senegal was in the country for a two-week working visit to the government and people of Sierra Leone. (AllAfrica)

Paramount chiefs in Sierra Leone are not against the reformation of the chieftaincy system even in tradition but the approach should not be one-sided, said PC Alhaji Issa B. Kamara. (AllAfrica)

Deputy minister of labor and industrial relations, who was one time member of the two opposition parties in the country, has accused the Sierra Leone People's Party, SLPP of stage-managing the aborted youth election in Pujehun district, south of Sierra Leone. (AllAfrica)

Sierra Leone and Willem II defender, Ibrahim Kargbo aka Obreh has scooped the "Flying Bahco Trophy after their match against Dutch rival, NEC. The prize was from the Foundation saved Tools. (AllAfrica)

The Sierra Leone national team, Leone Stars would now face Senegal in the second rounds of the Africa home base championship, CHAN. (AllAfrica)

Public sector reform unit, PSRU in collaboration with the human resource management office has commenced a review of the management, systems and processes of the ministry of works, housing and Infrastructure. (AllAfrica)

A community based organization, peacock farm awareness and development organization in collaboration with goal Sierra Leone has ended a quiz competition and sensitization forum for over ten schools. (AllAfrica)

Ten women from the council of women councilors have returned home after attending a three-day conference at Indaba Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa on the theme "Women in Politics". (AllAfrica)

Governor of the bank of Sierra Leone has received commendation from his Nigerian counterpart for his effort in stabilizing the country's economy even at the wake of the global financial crisis. (AllAfrica)

State House yesterday issued a press release announcing the abrupt dismissal of the minister of health and sanitation by the president after he was arrested by the anti-corruption commission, ACC for almost killing the ministry. (AllAfrica)

Shakespeare's dictum that all the good things that people do are buried with them was disproved in London at the 11th Gathering of Africa's Best (GAB) awards when the late general Sani Abacha was almost made a saint by a British politician, Mr Mackie Sheik. (AllAfrica)

India Gazette Thursday 5th November, 2009 Freetown , Nov.5 : Sierra Leone 's president has launched a satellite link-up so that doctors in his country can seek advice from their colleagues in India.

They call her "Marie Nerica", after a new breed of rice. (AllAfrica)

Former Liberia President Charles Taylor who is being tried by the UN-back court for Sierra Leone in The Hague for crimes he allegedly committed in the neighbouring country, has confessed to sending fighters to help rebels inflict mayhem on civilians during the 11-year war in the country. (AllAfrica)

In a surprising move, Charles Taylor today reinforced the truthfulness of his former vice president's testimony against him last year, but dismissed the evidence of a Liberian journalist as full of "lies" and "exaggeration." (AllAfrica)

Charles Taylor today accused the prosecution of "misleading the court" by introducing evidence that as Liberian president, Mr. Taylor acted to resolve conflicts between Sierra Leone's rebel commanders, appoint a chief rebel leader in his warring neighboring country, and then independently offer safe haven in Liberia to a top rebel on the run. Mr. Taylor is on trial by the Special Court for Sierra Leone for his alleged role in serious international crimes committed by Sierra Leonean rebels during the country's brutal civil war. (AllAfrica)

KAMBIA DISTRICT, Sierra Leone, Nov 4 - They call her "Marie Nerica", after a new breed of rice.

Sierra Leone has transferred eight convicted former rebel leaders to Rwanda's Mpanga prison to serve out their sentences.

For three years, children attending a private school for the blind in Sierra Leone's capital were forced onto the streets to beg for food. As well as being allowed to go hungry, their coughs, colds, cuts and bruises were also left untreated as the school funds were no longer channelled into looking after their well-being. (AllAfrica)

United States and Sierra Leone government officials signed an agreement to reestablish a Peace Corps program in Sierra Leone after a 16 year absence. Glenn Fedzer, the Chargé d’Affaires for the U.S. Embassy in Freetown, and Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Zainab Hawa Bangura, signed an agreement to officially re-establish Peace Corps/Sierra Leone at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Freetown. Mr. Fedzer was accompanied by Lynn Foden, Peace Corps’ acting regional director for Africa. (AllAfrica)

A US official says the Peace Corps will return to Sierra Leone after 16 years' absence.

For three years, children attending a private school for the blind in Sierra Leone's capital were forced onto the streets to beg for food.

A Sierra Leonean judge has taken over as the new President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), the United Nations-backed war crimes tribunal set up to deal with the worst acts committed during the long and brutal civil war in the West African nation. (AllAfrica)