Posts tagged: Sierra Leone
Hard Times for Sierra Leone native Who Would Be Moldovan President
John Onoje, a Sierra Leone native who recently aspired to the Moldovan presidency, is now living on the streets of the capital, Chisinau, Vesti.md reported.
Onoje left Sierra Leone for Moldova 13 years ago and is now a naturalized citizen. His presidential ambitions were dashed when he failed to win the support of the required number of parliamentarians...
Africa Rising: With film school, can Sierra Leone change ‘Blood Diamond’ image?
Pick your way down a crowded street clogged with motorbike taxis and stray dogs. Walk past the women hawking flip-flops and little baggies of plantain chips. Step over an open gutter and through a low, unmarked doorway. Round a few unlit corners, then walk up a narrow set of stairs – and you’ve arrived.
Welcome to Hollywood, Sierra Leone style.
This...
Glamour: Miss World 2011
Miss World 2011 contestants (L-R) Miss South Africa Bokang Montjane, Miss Zimbabwe Malaika Mushandu, Miss Namibia Luzaan Van Wyk, Miss Sierra Leone Swadu Beckley, Miss Botswana Karabo Sampson, Miss Liberia Meenakshi Subramani, and Miss Nigeria Chichi Sylvia Nduka pose for photographers in front of the Houses of Parliament and the Big Ben clocktower...
Nigeria, Cameroon and Sierra Leone in fishing projects
FREETOWN — Three West and Central African countries on Saturday agreed to implement two competitive projects on fisheries and aquaculture for a three-year period starting from January 2012.
After meeting for three days in the Sierra Leonean capital, 40 representatives from the National Agricultural Research Systems agreed on “poverty eradication...
‘Miracle’ plant boosting health in Sierra Leone
FREETOWN — A tropical plant said to be nutritional dynamite is being plugged by Sierra Leone’s government as a natural cure-all in the country, which has some of the worst health indicators in the world.
The Moringa plant, native to northern India, has been called the “tree of life” and its use is spreading in Africa, advocates say,...
Amnesty International criticises Sierra Leone’s free health care plan
DAKAR — Sierra Leone’s free health care plan for pregnant women and young children is dysfunctional and hobbled by corruption and a lack of accountability, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
“The health care system remains dysfunctional in many respects,” Erwin van der Borght, Amnesty International’s Africa program director,...
Sierra Leone Presidential Candidate a Former Military Fighter
Former Sierra Leonean junta leader retired brigadier Julius Maada Bio poses for a picture in the country's capital Freetown August 10, 2011.
A former fighter from Sierra Leone’s civil war has become the main opposition party’s candidate for next year’s presidential election, Reuters reported on Monday.
Former junta leader Maada Bio told...
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