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Sierra Leone’s Vice President Juldeh Jalloh Attends 37th African Union Summit

Vice President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Honourable Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, is in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, for the 37th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) Summit which ends on Sunday 18 February 2024. He was received on Friday at the Bole International Airport by the country’s Minister of Mines […]

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Nigeria, Sierra Leone Explore Cross-Border Collaboration For Digital Innovation

Nigeria and Sierra Leone have entered into a strategic collaboration to actualise the “Forge Strategic Partnerships and Collaboration” pillar outlined in the Strategic Roadmap and Action Plan (SRAP 2.0 2024-2027). This was confirmed by the director-general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Abdullahi during a meeting with Sierra Leone’s Minister of

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NACE-SL Joins TJNA at Alternative Mining Indaba In South Africa

Coordinator of the National Advocacy Coalition on Extractives in Sierra Leone, NACE-SL, Cecilia Mattia, is attending the Alternative Mining Indaba, AMI, that started Monday 5th and will end on Wednesday 7th February 2024 in Cape Town, South Africa. She joins the Tax Justice Network Africa (TJNA), her partners and sponsors for this trip, and other

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Salone Delegation Visits Falklands On Fisheries, Conservation

A delegation from Sierra Leone headed by Mrs. Princess Dugba, Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources together with Ms Harriet Mathews, Director General Africa and the Americas at the Foreign and Development Office are currently in the Falkland Islands as part of a program to share fisheries, environment and conservation policies experiences. The purpose of

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NCRA Sierra Leone Encourages Biometric ID Cards for Security, Public Services

Sierra Leone’s National Civil Registration Authority, NCRA, has called on citizens and residents in the West African nation to acquire biometric national ID cards introduced early last year for security purposes and ease of accessing public services. Personalization for the cards with ICAO-compliant biometrics and public key infrastructure for signing that data is provided by X Infotech,

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Sierra Leone: New Laws Give Farmers Power To Protect Lands

In towns like Tonka, farmers seek advice from paralegals and human rights organizations to take advantage of legislation that can protect them from large corporations Aminata Bangura balances a banana tree on her head as she carefully descends a steep, slippery slope. Barefoot, she looks for firm ground in the mud. All around her are

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Leone Rock Metal Group and Arise IIP to Compromise Over Railway Management

Efforts are being made by a team of Government Ministers to engage the managements of Leone Rock Metal Group LTD, formerly Kingho, and Arise IIP with a proposal that will lead to a compromise in favour of both companies regarding the management of the railway and port facilities. The companies, like any other investor seeking

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Win-Win Situation: Kingho to Manage Railway for Haulage and Arise IIP to Manage Passenger Rail

The government of Sierra Leone has hinted that an amicable way out of the current misunderstanding surrounding the management of the railway and port facilities in the north and northwest of the country must end in a win-win situation. The existing railway between the port of Pepel and the Marampa iron ore mine is currently

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Is Feed Salone Possible? I believe That Not a Moment of Life is Wasted on a Farm

By Aima Sow (Queen Lima) An agricultural life is one eminently calculated for human happiness and human virtue. The first farmer was the first man, and all historic nobility rests on possession and use of land. A fertile soil alone does not carry agriculture to perfection. Agriculture is civilization. President Bio is a man of

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Africell Sierra Leone Introduces New Networking Solution

Operator Africell Sierra Leone is to roll out a high-capacity disaggregated IP/MPLS (internet protocol multi-protocol label switching) backbone to deliver mobile and fixed services, with support from IP Infusion, a manufacturer of carrier-grade networking software. IP Infusion announced that Pine Networks, a systems integrator based in Paris, has chosen its OcNOS network operating system to provide a disaggregated networking

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