Economy - Development
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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Politics | Economy - Development
Sierra Leone celebrates end of UN sanctions
afrol News, 30 September - As the UN Security Council has lifted the sanctions it imposed on Sierra Leone more than 12 years ago, the Freetown government is "excited" to move onto a new step in history.
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Economy - Development
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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Economy - Development | Technology
Sierra Leone improves Internet connectivity
afrol News, 2 July - A new Internet exchange point (IXP) has been launched in Freetown, for the first time allowing Sierra Leone's web users to exchange local data within the country rather than over international links.
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Labour | Health
Sierra Leone's health strike ends
afrol News, 29 March - The almost two weeks strike by Sierra Leone's health workers ended yesterday after government made an offer to double salaries of the striking workforce.
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Economy - Development | Society
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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Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development
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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Politics | Society
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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Economy - Development | Society | Media | Gender - Women | Health | Human rights
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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Politics | Environment - Nature | Economy - Development | Society
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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Agriculture - Nutrition | Gender - Women | Politics | Economy - Development | Society
New centres raise cassava’s outlook in Sierra Leone
afrol News, 17 December - Cassava’s profile as a food security and poverty-reducing crop has received a boost with the commissioning of five new processing centres in Sierra Leone.
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Society | Human rights
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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Politics | Society | Human rights
Tribunal up-holds sentence for 3 former rebels
afrol News, 26 October - The UN backed court in Sierra Leone has upheld sentences for three rebel leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) convicted of crimes against humanity during the country’s 10 year civil war.
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» 18.09.2009 - Mobile money transfer system now avalable in S/Leone
» 15.09.2009 - Sierra Leone's peace needs time, UN official
» 11.09.2009 - Search for bodies continues off Sierra Leone coast
» 03.09.2009 - Sierra Leone players must step up efforts, Ban
» 26.05.2009 - Sierra Leone smallholder farmers get WFP boost
» 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
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