Sierra Leone| Last Updated 14/12/2009 19:06:00
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 | S/Leonean President urged not to sign new media act | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The sub-regional media rights body, Media Foundation for
West Africa (MFWA), Tuesday urged President Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone "not to
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ssent" to the newly-passed "Broadcasting Act", while calling for more "consultat
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ons", the body said in a statement received here by PANA.
11/08/2009 full text... |
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| Editor charged with “defaming President” in Sierra Leone | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Authorities in Freetown have charged Sylvia Blyden, Publ
isher and managing editor of the privately-owned 'Awareness Times' newspaper in
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ierra Leone, with “defaming” President Ernest Bai Koroma, the sub-regional right
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body, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), said in a statement received by
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ANA Thursday.
28/05/2009 full text... |
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| Editor flees Sierra Leone | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Sylvia Blyden, Publisher and managing editor of the priv
ately-owned ‘Awareness Times’ newspaper in Sierra Leone has gone into hiding fol
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owing an alleged threat to her life, the sub-regional press freedom watchdog, Me
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ia Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), said in a statement received by PANA here
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unday.
25/05/2009 full text... |
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| Mano River Union youth meet | | Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Youth representatives from Mano River Union (MRU
) - Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone- governments officials, repr
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sentatives of the private sector and the United Nations (UN) agencies have been
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athering since Tuesday at the national stadium of Freetown, Sierra Leone, for th
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first forum devoted to Youth contribution to the development of the region.
12/03/2009 full text... |
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| 2-day MRU sub-regional youth forum holds in S/Leone | | Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) - Youth representatives from the Mano River Union
(MRU) countries (Côte d’Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone), government of
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icials, private sector representatives and United Nations agencies gathered at t
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e National Stadium in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tuesday for the first youth forum
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n youth contributions to sub-regional development.
11/03/2009 full text... |
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| Four female journalists stripped naked in Sierra Leone | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Wednes
day strongly condemned “the humiliating and degrading treatment” suffered by fo
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r female journalists who were stripped naked in public in ‘Kenema District’ East
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rn Sierra Leone, the global media rights body said in a communique’ received her
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by PANA.
11/02/2009 full text... |
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| Sierra Leonean rights activist receives death threat | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai, the Executive Director of the So
ciety for Democratic Initiatives (SDI), a media advocacy group in Sierra Leone,
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as received death threats for allegedly criticising the ruling All People's Cong
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ess (APC) government, the Accra-based sub-regional press freedom body, Media Fou
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dation for West Africa (MFWA), said in a statement Monday.
09/02/2009 full text... |
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| IFJ decries press freedom violations in Sierra Leone | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has ur
ged Sierra Leonean government to urgently address press freedom violations in th
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West African country, while condemning a violent attack on a female journalist,
Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, the global media freedom watchdog said in a statement to
PANA Saturday.
01/02/2009 full text... |
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| Ruling party official sacks journalist in Sierra Leone | | Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Chairman of the youth wing of Sierra Leone's
ruling All Peoples Congress (APC), Sorieba Yillah, has ordered the
dismissal of Gibril Gorttor, a journalist working for 'Kollenten 92.4
FM' a community radio station, for airing reports critical of the
party's activities.
26/01/2009 full text... |
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| UNHCR shuts out Sierra Leoneans asylum seekers | | Windhoek, Namibia (PANA) - The UN refugee agency in Namibia has shut
its doors against Sierra Leonean asylum seekers, saying it will, in
collaboration with Namibia's home affairs ministry, repatriate 22
Sierra Leonean refugees currently in the country.
14/01/2009 full text... |
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| Sierra Leone Labour Congress threatens strike action | | Freetown, Sierra Leone (PANA) – The Sierra Leone Labour Congress has threatened
a nationwide strike action if its demands for a reduction of market dues and rel
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ase of detained executives are not addressed by the Freetown City Council in 48
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ours.
10/01/2009 full text... |
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