Sierra Leone Travel News

BBC News website readers have sent in their experiences of Yuletide festivities on the continent.

Manager of operations and maintenance at Salini construction, the Italian company contracted to complete the decades-long Bumbuna hydroelectric project in the Tonkolili district, northern Sierra Leone, Serafino Ciro has confirmed to a team of visiting journalists that the electricity the capital Freetown is enjoying today is indeed coming from ...

LOS ANGELES, CA, November 04, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The first annual Ma dengn Beach Festival is scheduled to take place December 19-20, 2009 in Sierra Leone, West Africa.

Reg Nieszner put aside concerns about his own health to travel halfway around the world on a charity mission to help the people of Sierra Leone.

Splash Mobile Money Limited , a leading mobile payment system provider, and MoreMagic Solutions, a leading mobile transactions provider, announced today the availability of Sierra Leone's first mobile money transfer system, enabled by MoreMagic Solutions industry-leading MWallet platform.

Freetown, Sierra Leone - Officials say they have recovered 30 bodies from the overloaded wooden boat that capsized off the coast of Sierra Leone with nearly 300 passengers aboard.

More than 200 people including many schoolchildren returning from holidays remained missing Thursday, a day after a wooden boat capsized at sea and left at least eight dead, police said.

Eight people were confirmed dead after a boat capsized on Tuesday night, along the Plantain AND Shenge Island, some 100 nautical miles from the capital city of Freetown in the West African country of Sierra Leone.

PRC bank chief visits People's Bank of China Deputy Governor Su Ning arrived in Taiwan yesterday, leading a 22-member delegation to attend a seminar on the development of bills finance markets on both sides of the Strait.

Freetown - The Second Secretary at the Sierra Leone Embassy in Ethiopia, Mr. Christopher Bocakrie, represented the country at the just concluded Human Security Dialogue Forum on "The Credit Crunch-Implications for Africa." The meeting, which took place at the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa, was organized by the African Human Security Initiative ...

STONEHOUSE aid worker Pat Puddephatt is no stranger to Africaa TMs poorest regions, having visited the continent many times since setting up her own charity in 2003.

Baindu Sesay, 40, hails from Pepel village, Port Loko, north of Freetown, but she and her family were visiting relatives in the south-eastern city of Kenema during the 'Mami en Pikin Well Bodi' campaign that took place across the country earlier this month.