President Julius Maada Bio is not the transformative leader he claims to be

Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was created by the Treaty of Lagos in Lagos, Nigeria, on 28 May 1975. It was created to promote economic trade, national cooperation, and monetary union, for growth and development throughout West

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Has coronavirus reshaped democratic rights?

There are already signs that some governments are using the crisis to grant themselves more expansive powers than warranted by the health crisis, with insufficient oversight mechanisms, and using their expanded authority to crack down on opposition and tighten their grip on

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IMF approves disbursement of $143 million loan for Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 response

The government of Sierra Leone has today received approval from the IMF, for almost half the government’s $300 million it had requested from the international community a few weeks ago, in support of its COVID-19 response

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Coronavirus in Africa: 78,280 cases; 2,624 deaths; 29,245 recoveries

There are now more than over 70,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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President Bio calls on regional leaders to unite on single currency adoption

Yesterday, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone chaired a zoom online meeting of the West African Monetary Zone Authority of Heads of States and Governments, where he encouraged his colleagues Heads of State and Governments across the region to unite, in ensuring that the proposed single

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Mistreatment of Africans in China: Trump questions WHO's silence

“On April 11, 2020, several African Ambassadors wrote to the Chinese Foreign Ministry about the discriminatory treatment of Africans related to the pandemic in Guangzhou and other cities in

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Fresh outbreak of Ebola virus in DRC kills 11 people from 17 recorded cases

Since the discovery of the Ebola virus disease in 1976 in South Sudan (then Sudan) and Democratic Republic of Congo (then Zaire), there have been recurrent

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Afro-Caribbean

Afro-Caribbeans are Caribbean people who trace at least some of their ancestry to West Africa in the period since Christopher Columbuss arrival in the region in 1492. Other names for this ethnicity include African-Caribbean (especially preferred among the United Kingdom branch of the

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Brazen armed robbers arrested during curfew in Freetown

Sierra Leoneans are raising concerns over the spate of armed robberies in the country, and calling on the police to be more

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President Bio takes to the red carpet in style to launch national tree planting

Launching the country’s national tree planting, afforestation, and reforestation project at Mortomeh in Bathurst, Freetown two days ago, 5th June 2020, this is what president

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: For His Times and Ours

In the article below Hilary Burrage, Executive Chair of the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Foundation, a United Kingdom (UK)-based non-profit organisation, describes the composer and how she came to regard and preserve his work and

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Source: Black Past

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Bank of Sierra Leone stimulus package and its impact on the economy

Devastating as this pandemic is, there is an opportunity for the government of Sierra Leone to fundamentally change the direction of the local economy by offering an economic response that is not only proportionate to the scale of the disruption, but one that is bold and big enough to define a new

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Coronavirus in Africa: 81,608 cases; 2,708 deaths; 31,122 recoveries

There are now more than over 80,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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Liberia

Liberia lībēr´ēə [key] (New Lat.,=place of freedom), officially Republic of Liberia, republic (2005 est. pop. 3,482,000), 43,000 sq mi (111,370 sq km), W Africa. Liberia fronts on the Atlantic Ocean for some 350 mi (560 km) on the southwest and is bordered on the northwest by Sierra Leone, on the

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Anti-Corruption Commission indicts former head of procurement on corruption offences

Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), last Wednesday, filed indictment charges against Sahr Kemokai, former Head of Procurement at the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration (SLMA), on nine counts of corruption

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Africa urged to buy local products to support startups

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Coronavirus in Africa: 225,126 cases; 6,051 deaths; 102,912 recoveries

There are now more than over 220,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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Nigeria: Cargo Operation As Revenue Earner for Domestic Airlines

Some industry operatives who spoke to THISDAY said over the years, Nigerian airlines have not developed the cargo market; so most farm produce and others are being moved by road, as Nigeria does not have well developed train

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NGC concludes COVID-19 sensitization in the South East region of Sierra Leone

Following a five-day visit to the southeast of Sierra Leone, Hon. Kandeh Yumkella – leader of the national Granf Coalition (NGC) in parliament, has completed his coronavirus disease sensitization

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Coronavirus in Africa: 242,969 cases; 6,524 deaths; 110,735 recoveries

There are now more than over 220,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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Coronavirus in Africa: 267,818 cases; 7,219 deaths; 123,054 recoveries

There are now more than over 260,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the

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NRA celebrating two years of enhanced tax system in Sierra Leone

The National Revenue Authority (NRA) has consistently registered an increase in tax collection by 1.1 trillion Leones in 2018 and 2019

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Royal African Company

Chartered in 1672, the Royal African Company was a royally chartered company which had a legally based monopoly on English trade to West Africa until 1698. The monopoly specifically extended through five thousand miles of the western coast from Cape Sallee (in contemporary Morocco) to the Cape of

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Sierra leone

But a violent military coup ousted President Kabbahs civilian government in May 1997. The leader of the coup, Lieut. Col. Johnny Paul Koroma, assumed the title Head of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC). Koroma began a reign of terror, destroying the economy and murdering enemies. The

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Liberia

Tolbert was ousted in a military coup on April 12, 1980, by Master Sgt. Samuel K. Doe, backed by the U.S. government. Does rule was characterized by corruption and brutality. A rebellion led by Charles Taylor, a former Doe aide, and the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL), started in

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1980

Sierra Leone doctors issue strike ultimatum amid Covid-19

Just two days after low level Covid-19 responders went on strike, medical doctors in Sierra Leone have issued a strike notice over non-payment of allowances and

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A Brief History of the African Country of Liberia

Date of Independence: July 26,1847

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Timeline of African-American history

Timeline of African-American history - Wikipedia

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Mutinous Troops in Freetown overthrow government

Mutinous troops in Freetown, Sierra Leone, overthrow the government of president Joseph Momoh.

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1992

President Bio receives 2018 public procurement assessment report

Yesterday, Chief Executive Officer of the National Public Procurement Authority (NPPA) – Ibrahim Brima Swaray, presented his 2018 Public Procurement Assessment Report to President Dr Julius Maada Bio, which outlines details of procurement spending by government departments and agencies under the

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