A community portal about Sierra Leone with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea on the north and Liberia on...
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A community portal about Sierra Leone with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Guinea on the north and Liberia on the south, with the Atlantic Ocean on the west. The name Sierra Leone was adapted from the Portuguese name for the country: Serra Leoa. The literal meaning is "Lioness Mountain." During the 1700s Sierra Leone was an important centre of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The capital Freetown was founded in 1792 by the Sierra Leone Company as a home for Black Britons who had fought for the British in the American Revolutionary War.
It breaks my heart that the UNICEF Report released today states that Sierra Leone has the highest child mortality rate in the world. Hopefully we can make a tiny difference with the Sa Lone Pikin 2008 Pledge Campaign . For those of you who read this blog, you already know how I feel about David Beckham. Guess where he is today??? The newly minted UNICEF Ambassador is in Sierra Leone today , bringing awareness to this child mortality issue, and playing around SHIRTLESS with the kids... Read Full Story
Date : October 7th, 2009 Category : Uncategorized Author : Editor
Macro-Economic and Political Environment
The sluggish financial and economic progress of 2008, under the Koroma administration, nevertheless holds the possibility of strong and broad-based economic growth as the economy struggles to rebuild from the war years, together with moderate inflation levels. Over the medium term, any improvement in key sectors will offer hope that the economy will bottom out of aid... Read Full Story
Do you want to chat with students from Sierra Leone? : “Sierra Leonean kids want to communicate but don’t have computer access. If you would like to chat with a student in the City of Bo, Sierra Leone let me know at pjfishing@yahoo.com and I’ll hook you up through Local Government officer Sheka Kamara.” Read Full Story
I originally wrote the post below on August 3, 2007 . I have made only minor changes to the text to reflect the number of casualties and the location of the disaster, and to correct any anachronisms.
Today, 10 Sierra Leoneans drowned (many more are still missing) when their boat capsized on a sea journey from Shenge to Tombo, a village south of the capital, Freetown. Official sources claim the boat—which has not yet been recovered—was overloaded and did not contain lifejackets, in... Read Full Story
Sierra Leone boat
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – More than 200 people including many schoolchildren returning from holidays remained missing Thursday, a day after a wooden boat capsized in the West African nation and left at least eight dead, police said.
Some 39 passengers have been rescued so far, police official Ibrahim Samura said.
At least 221 people remain missing and some of the passengers also were traveling with young children, Samura said.
“Most of the passengers were school... Read Full Story
Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars
Artist: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars
Genres:
Reggae
Discography
Get it!
Living Like A Refugee Year: 2006
Tracks: 17
Living Like a Refugee
Soda Soap
Weapon Conflict
Bull To The Weak
Big Lesson
Let We Do We Own
Smile
Compliments For The Peace
Pat Malonthone
Garbage To The Showglass
Akera Ka Abonshor
Kele Mani
I’m Not A Fool
Ya N’Digba
Refugee Rolling
Monkey Work
Ma Fo Ya... Read Full Story
“Last summer, a professor and two students from a small Iowa college jammed 200 teddy bears into a duffle (sic) bag and flew to Sierra Leone. Armed only with books, laptops, cameras, and the bears—which were gifts for Sierra Leonean children—they were on an ambitious mission: to try to teach forgiveness skills in one of the most war-torn places on Earth,” wrote Emile Raguso in a Fall 2008 article in Greater Good Magazine . If you’re having trouble forgiving a friend, boss, spouse, colleague... Read Full Story
FREETOWN — Rights watchdog Amnesty International on Thursday expressed concern over what it described as the slow reaction by authorities in Sierra Leone to human rights abuses in the west African state.
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"Human rights abuses are occurring in rapid succession and we are not seeing satisfactory reaction from government functionaries," a spokesman for Amnesty's Sierra Leone chapter, Bockari... Read Full Story
“Last summer, a professor and two students from a small Iowa college jammed 200 teddy bears into a duffle (sic) bag and flew to Sierra Leone. Armed only with books, laptops, cameras, and the bears—which were gifts for Sierra Leonean children—they were on an ambitious mission: to try to teach forgiveness skills in one of the most war-torn places on Earth,” wrote Emile Raguso in a Fall 2008 article in Greater Good Magazine . If you’re having trouble forgiving a friend, boss, spouse, colleague... Read Full Story
Freetown (Sierra Leone), Sep 10 (Xinhua) At least 80 children were killed when the boat in which they were travelling capsised off the coast of Sierra Leone capital during a storm, media reports said. A total of 150 people, including children were on board the vessel at the time of the accident Wednesday. Officials said the [...]...
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