September 3, 2010
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Sierra Leone
Last Updated     18/05/2010    16:27:00
Sierra Leonean President on condolence visit to Jonathan
Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - President of Sierra Leone, Mr. Ernest Bai Koroma, Tuesday visited Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa Abuja, the Nigerian capital city, to express the condolences of the government and people of his country on the death of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.    18/05/2010   full text...
UNIDO, Moscow to fund fishing in Sierra Leone
New York, US (PANA) - UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and the Rus sian government have signed an agreement to fund a multi-billion-dollar investme n t in the fishing sector in Sierra Leone, to boost economic development in the We s t African nation.    18/05/2010   full text...
Sierra Leone backs Moroccan plan for Western Sahara
Rabat, Morocco (PANA) - Sierra Leone's minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Mrs Zainab Hawa Bangura, on Friday in Rabat reiterated the "constant support" of her country to the proposal by Morocco to give greater autonomy to Western Sahara.    19/03/2010   full text...
Pretoria hosts Sierra Leone Minister
Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - International Relations and Cooperation Ministe r Maite Nkoana-Mashabane was due to hold a bilateral meeting with her Sierra Leonean cou nterpart Zainab Bangura on Sunday in Pretoria.    07/03/2010   full text...
Sierra Leonean refugees in Nigeria reject UNHCR integration package
Oru, Nigeria (PANA) - Sierra Leonean refugees in Nigeria, who opted for local in tegration, have rejected the United Nations High Commission for Refugees' (UNHC R ) welfare package of N75,000, saying such an amount was too meagre to cater for p ost-integration challenges.    14/12/2009   full text...
Brigade structure approved for ECOWAS standby force
Lagos, Nigeria (PANA) - Rising from their three-day meeting in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on 11 December, the ECOWAS Chiefs of Defence Staff approved a Brigade Str u cture and Composition for the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF).    13/12/2009   full text...
UN-backed tribunal sentences former S/Leone rebel leaders
New York, US (PANA) - The UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone on Monday sen tenced three former rebel leaders to a combined 117 years in prison for war crim e s.    26/10/2009   full text...
2,156 Sierra Leonean refugees get Gambian citizenship
Banjul, Gambia (PANA) - The Gambian government has issued passports to 2,156 Sie rra Leonean refugees who fled their country during the civil war that erupted 10 years ago, official sources told PANA here Wednesday.    02/09/2009   full text...
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 a ssent" to the newly-passed "Broadcasting Act", while calling for more "consultat i ons", the body said in a statement received here by PANA.    11/08/2009   full text...
Kadhafi Project, Sierra Leone charity sign cooperation pact
Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Kadhafi Project for African Women, Youth and Childre n and Sierra Leone's charity organisation "Danky Koroma" have signed an agreemen t aimed at promoting relations between the two organisations.    25/06/2009   full text...
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 S ierra Leone, with “defaming” President Ernest Bai Koroma, the sub-regional right s body, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), said in a statement received by P ANA Thursday.    28/05/2009   full text...
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 l owing an alleged threat to her life, the sub-regional press freedom watchdog, Me d ia Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), said in a statement received by PANA here S unday.    25/05/2009   full text...
EU parliament seeks financial support for UN Special Court for S/Leone
Brussels, Belgium (PANA) - The EU Parliament has called on EU member states to give substantial financial assistance to the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone t o allow those convicted by the court to be jailed in countries that do not have t he financial means to implement imprisonment measures.    27/04/2009   full text...
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 e sentatives of the private sector and the United Nations (UN) agencies have been g athering since Tuesday at the national stadium of Freetown, Sierra Leone, for th e first forum devoted to Youth contribution to the development of the region.    12/03/2009   full text...
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 f icials, private sector representatives and United Nations agencies gathered at t h e National Stadium in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Tuesday for the first youth forum o n youth contributions to sub-regional development.    11/03/2009   full text...
Media watchdog condemns attack on Sierra Leone’s female journalists
Dakar, Senegal (PANA) – The Accra-based sub-regional media watchdog, Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), on Friday condemned at attack on four female journalists by pro-Female Genital Mutilation activists in Sierra Leone as “barbaric” saying it “defies all civility”.    13/02/2009   full text...
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 u r female journalists who were stripped naked in public in ‘Kenema District’ East e rn Sierra Leone, the global media rights body said in a communique’ received her e by PANA.    11/02/2009   full text...
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, h as received death threats for allegedly criticising the ruling All People's Cong r ess (APC) government, the Accra-based sub-regional press freedom body, Media Fou n dation for West Africa (MFWA), said in a statement Monday.    09/02/2009   full text...
UN Scribe solicits efforts to combat drug trade in West Africa
New York, US (PANA) - The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called on the int ernational community to support efforts to combat the flourishing drug trade in W est Africa.    05/02/2009   full text...
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 e 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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