More oil found off Sierra Leone
afrol News, 15 November - International oil companies today announce they have made "a second hydrocarbons find offshore Sierra Leone." The field is now characterised as a "high potential" zone for oil drilling.
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Sierra Leone growth too slow
afrol News, 21 September - Economic growth in post-war Sierra Leone is too slow to forcefully fight poverty, new data show. But diamond production and agriculture have picked up.
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Sierra Leone battles corruption
afrol News, 19 March - Sierra Leone courts have treated their first major corruption case, ending in the conviction of two superior officers of the Ministry of Defence. President Ernest Bai Koroma is now acting tougher action against corruption.
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West Africa enters intl organic food market
afrol News, 9 March - Consumers in Europe and America are willing to pay extra for trusted quality organic food products. Now, a new project helps thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal and Sierra Leone to enter this lucrative market.
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UN names Sierra Leone’s tribunal prosecutor
afrol News, 22 February - A United States attorney, who leads the prosecution against former Liberian president Charles Taylor, has been named by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as the new Prosecutor of the United Nations-backed tribunal trying the worst acts committed during the decade-long brutal civil war in Sierra Leone.
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UN partners media to fight sexual violence in S/Leone
afrol News, 15 February - With not a single conviction resulting from the thousands of sexual violence cases reported last year in Sierra Leone, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is hoping the media can be a power ally in spotlighting how these offences go unpunished in the West African nation.
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Sierra Leone government bans logging
afrol News, 11 January - The Sierra Leone government has banned all logging and export following a warning by environmentalists that indiscriminate deforestation practices in the country poses real environmental hazards to the country.
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Sierra Leone judge takes over Taylor case
afrol News, 2 November - Jon Kamanda, a Sierra Leonean judge, has taken over as the new President of the UN-backed war crimes court that also presides over the case against Liberian ex-Dictator Charles Taylor. Mr Kamenda is the first local to lead the special court.
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Mobile money transfer system now avalable in S/Leone
afrol News, 18 September - Mobile users in Sierra Leone can now make their transactions using the thumbs commands, thanks to the collaboration of Splash Mobile Money Limited and MoreMagic Solutions, which has announced the availability of Sierra Leone's first mobile money transfer system.
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Sierra Leone's peace needs time, UN official
afrol News, 15 September - A top United Nations official has warned today, that although Sierra Leone had embarked on a remarkable journey towards a stable, peaceful and democratic country, this journey will be bumpy, long and even, at times, dangerous.
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Sierra Leone players must step up efforts, Ban
afrol News, 3 September - Greater efforts are needed by all Sierra Leoneans to build on the momentum generated by the signing of a key peace pact that led to the cessation of political violence earlier this year, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon wrote in a new report released today.
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Sierra Leone smallholder farmers get WFP boost
afrol News, 26 May - Small-scale farmers in Sierra Leone, will jointly benefit with those in Bangladesh and Pakistan in a World Food Programme (WFP) funded programme aimed at boosting the food production capacities of poor farmers in the developing countries.
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» 04.05.2009 - Taylor's acquittal plea thrown out
» 08.04.2009 - S/Leone rebels sentenced
» 04.02.2009 - Illicit drugs could reverse S Leone peace - UN
» 20.11.2008 - Investments pour into Sierra Leone mining
» 12.11.2008 - Stones instead of pcs to collect Sierra Leone health data
» 08.10.2008 - Sierra Leonean refugees' benefits expire
» 03.10.2008 - UN peace building office branches in Sierra Leone
» 12.09.2008 - Scores left homeless in Sierra Leon floods
» 02.09.2008 - S. Leone enacts anti-graft law
» 07.08.2008 - Sierra Leone commits to slam down trafficking
» 22.07.2008 - Sierra Leone ready to tighten drug laws
» 29.05.2008 - More punishment for Sierra Leone's war criminals
» 06.05.2008 - UN boasts S. Leone progress
» 03.03.2008 - Cellcom enjoys major investment
» 25.02.2008 - S Leone warlords lost appeal
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