Sierra Leone : News

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DAKAR Monday, March 17, 2008 (IRIN) - The World Food Programme (WFP) says that food prices have increased sharply in Sierra Leone and warns that any further rise could “badly impact [on] the majority of the population” in what the UN has judged to be the world’s least developed country. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, March 13, 2008 (IRIN) - Member states of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) are set to agree on ways to reduce poverty and revise their charter to address the huge imbalance in wealth between rich and poor countries in the Islamic world at a summit meeting this week in the Senegalese capital Dakar. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR Thursday, March 13, 2008 (IRIN) - More than 60 Islamic non-governmental organisations gathered in Senegal this week met with leaders of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) who agreed that it would play a greater role in providing humanitarian assistance to Islamic countries. (irinnews.org)

FREETOWN Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (IRIN) - Two babies and several gaunt women are the only patients in the gloomy wards of the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown. (irinnews.org)

FREETOWN Wednesday, March 12, 2008 (IRIN) - Sierra Leone has one of the highest levels of maternal mortality in the world. Among the myriad problems mothers there face is a lack of skilled, motivated and well-equipped health workers. One of just 220 trained midwives in the country, Rugiatu Kanu, who works at the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, told IRIN about the challenges of treating her impoverished clients. (irinnews.org)

FREETOWN Friday, March 07, 2008 (IRIN) - When people come to see Dr Dominic Weellah for anything more complicated than diarrhoea or malaria he often just gives them a placebo and sends them home. (irinnews.org)

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Prosecution witness at the trial of former Liberian President, Charles Taylor, broke down in tears in the middle of her testimony in court on Wednesday as she gave a graphic description of yet more rebel atrocities. (AllAfrica)

On 6 May 2008, the press secretary to State House, Sheka Tarawally, threatened "New Vision", an independent Freetown-based newspaper, with legal action if the newspaper failed to retract three articles it published accusing President Ernest Bai Koroma of being wasteful. (AllAfrica)

Incumbent Miss University, Khadijatu Sall is planning a dinner and fashion show to raise money for street children at the Old Skool Nite Club tomorrow. (AllAfrica)

The Njala university Bo campus student who allegedly stabbed a fellow student Chernoh Tonkara to death has made her first appearance before hon justice Naomi Tunis for the offense of murder contrary to law at the Bo high court. (AllAfrica)

Police Wednesday arrested Mohamed Sesay an alleged rapist at Clarkes quarter, Ngaiya town, Nimikoro chiefdom, Kono district. (AllAfrica)

Acting chairman of the Western Area Rural District Council last week commenced a sensitization on registration of property and rate payment at the Regent and Goderich community in Freetown. (AllAfrica)

Secretary General of the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS) Thursday said his organization would contribute more to the development of the Sierra Leone. (AllAfrica)

Chairman Board of Directors of the Standard Chartered Bank SCB Wednesday disclosed that the 2007 was a very challenging year for banking institutions. (AllAfrica)

After persistent lobbying from senior executive members within the All Peoples Congress, the only independent candidate who was supposedly the greatest threat to the APC's chance of winning the mayor-ship in Makeni has stepped down. (AllAfrica)

The establishment Secretary of Sierra Leone Thursday said the civil service in the country lacks the capacity to carry out its duties. (AllAfrica)

The West Africa Network for Peacebuilding in Sierra Leone, the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists and the National Forum for Human Rights Thursday organized a two-day consultative conference to commemorate the 2000 May 8 disaster that led to the death of human rights activists in Freetown. (AllAfrica)

United States regional education advising coordinator for Africa has said that the Sierra Leone West African Examination Council (WAEC) system was valid and producing good students. (AllAfrica)

Police in Kambia have arrested 5 Guinean trucks, at Bamoi Lumor close to the Guinean border, fully loaded with foodstuffs apparently meant for sale in neighbouring Guinea where an end of government subsidy triggered economic woes. (AllAfrica)

A wheelbarrow pusher Momoh Sesay has been arrested with one hundred and twenty two (122) short guns and AK 47 cartridges along Dambala Road in Bo. (AllAfrica)

While still considering the various concerns and objections raised by the ongoing trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor in The Hague, including its impact on the current political and justice situation in Liberia and Sierra Leone as well, British Broadcasting Corporation, or BBC as it is commonly known, gave us a shocker on Friday. (AllAfrica)

US-based Houston Chronicle Wednesday reported that Roger Crooks, a purportedly 'well-known businessman in Sierra Leone who mined diamonds and helped fleeing refugees during the country's bloody coup in 1997', has taken the government to court for 'breach of contract.' The lawsuit, prompted by government's apparent failure to reimburse him as earlier agreed for losses he incurred renovating Hotel Mammy Yoko which he owned before and after the coup, was reportedly filed in state district court in Houston. (AllAfrica)

Federation of International Football Association's (FIFA) National Stadium inspector Kalusha Bwalya arrival in Freetown has again been postponed to May 18. (AllAfrica)

The national junior and senior lawn tennis championship commenced on Wednesday at the National Stadium Lawn tennis court at different categories. (AllAfrica)

Leone Stars' Indonesia based defender, Mustapha Sama alias Pa Saffa and three others Thursday joined the home based squad in training with the National team, for the 2010 Nation's/World cup qualifying. (AllAfrica)

JOHANNESBURG Wednesday, March 05, 2008 (IRIN) - As food prices hit record highs, analysts warn that a re-think of food aid strategies is needed - and Ethiopia, a traditionally food insecure country, could offer some answers. (irinnews.org)

FREETOWN Tuesday, March 04, 2008 (IRIN) - Over half the prisoners in Sierra Leone’s jails have not been sentenced, according to recently released survey data from the Sierra Leonean human rights watchdog Prison Watch. (irinnews.org)

FREETOWN Monday, March 03, 2008 (IRIN) - Sierra Leone has the highest child and maternal mortality rates in the world because of underinvestment in health programs, malnutrition, and harmful cultural practices, UN children’s agency (UNICEF) Executive Director Ann Veneman told journalists in the Sierra Leone capital. (irinnews.org)