Sierra Leone News

On the occasion of the 4th Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, the Ambassador of the People's Republic of China to Sierra Leone Qiu Shaofang on Monday officially opened a five-day photo exhibition to demonstrate the development strides that has taken place between China and Africa.

A group of parents in Sierra Leone has accused a charity of sending more than 30 children abroad for adoption without consent during the country's civil war.

Police in Sierra Leone say 221 people are missing after a wooden boat capsized on Tuesday with 268 people on board.

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.

India Gazette Thursday 5th November, 2009 Freetown , Nov.5 : Sierra Leone 's president has launched a satellite link-up so that doctors in his country can seek advice from their colleagues in India.

KAMBIA DISTRICT, Sierra Leone, Nov 4 - They call her "Marie Nerica", after a new breed of rice.

Sierra Leone has transferred eight convicted former rebel leaders to Rwanda's Mpanga prison to serve out their sentences.

A US official says the Peace Corps will return to Sierra Leone after 16 years' absence.

For three years, children attending a private school for the blind in Sierra Leone's capital were forced onto the streets to beg for food.

Sunday, 1 November 2009, 5:37 pm Press Release: United Nations Eight men found guilty by a United Nations-backed court of war crimes and crimes against humanity during Sierra Leone's brutal decade-long civil war have been transferred to Rwanda to serve their sentences.

When in power, the Sierra Leone People's Party promised that thanks to its pursuit of a pro-agriculture agenda, no Sierra Leonean would go to bed hungry by 2007.

Senior officials from Sierra Leone are in a four-day retreat in the capital Freetown, to refine a strategy to boost the country's export sector.

Charles Taylor today denied allegations that he sent rebel forces to attack Ivory Coast as part of any grand plan to destabilize the West African sub-region. "I had nothing to do with the war in Ivory Coast," Mr.

The lawyer for the African despot accused of financing rape and pillage with stolen diamonds, has blasted the War Crimes Tribunal where his client stands trial as "racist," and a tool of American foreign policy.

The Special Court for Sierra Leone, established to try rebel leaders for atrocities committed during the country's brutal civil war, handed down its last judgment Monday.

A senior UN official is on a two-day visit to Sierra Leone for wide-ranging talks on the situation in a country that was the first to be put on the agenda of the new UN Peacebuilding Commission, set up three years ago to prevent conflict-plagued States from relapsing into bloodshed, UN officials said here Thursday.

Children hold Amnesty International posters during the campaign launch against maternal deaths in Sierra Leone on Sept.

In the Seminar Reconciliation, Justice, and Peace in Africa, being held in Rome during the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops promoted by the 'Giuseppe Toniolo' Institute for the International Law for Peace and the Catholic Action International Forum, Bishop Giorgio Biguzzi of Makeni, President of the Bishops' Conference of ...

Following is the text of a speech to the European Development Days in Stockholm by Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone, on his country's response to the Global Economic Downturn.

Staff Reporter A Commonwealth Observer Group will be present during Mozambique's National and Provincial Elections scheduled to be held on 28 October next.