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Africa: 'Africa is plagued with tribalism': U.S-based Sierra Leonean lawyer, Sorie Tarawally, writes
That meant, as a Mende-speaking Southeasterner from Bonthe District, I was serving at one of the highest position in the Northern Province/Temne-speaking dominated APC government, and I dared to be criticising the APC government's use of its apparent principal political
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Eid Mubarak – a clarion call for peace and national reconciliation in Sierra Leone
At its Press Briefing last week my Party, the National Grand Coalition (NGC), drew the attention of the Government and the country as a whole to the pervasive lack and gross miscarriage of justice in our society as a major  contributing factor to the ongoing political tensions which amply re-echo
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Africa: Women and Children Will Pay For This Pandemic – Unless We Act
Resources to deal with the pandemic are often diverted from women’s health services, with lasting effects on their children, their families, and their
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Gullah language
Gullah, also called Sea Island Creole English[1] [2] and Geechee, is a creole language spoken by the Gullah people (also called Geechees within the community), an African-American population living on the Sea Islands and in the coastal regions of the American states of South Carolina, Georgia and
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Africa: Gender Lens Essential to Addressing Linked Climate Change and Security Crises, Urges Joint UN Report
A new report - Gender, Climate & Security: Sustaining Inclusive Peace on the Frontlines of Climate Change - by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), UN Women, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), and the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (UNDPPA) reveals the close links between
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Sierra Leone: Opposition Member Dr Sylvia Blyden Detained Again
Dr Sylvia Blyden, a leading member of the main opposition  All People's Congress (APC) is back in jail in Freetown after her bail was
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Coronavirus in Africa: 115,892 cases; 3,479 deaths; 46,553 recoveries
There are now more than over 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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Back-to-Africa movement
The Back-to-Africa movement, also known as the Colonization movement or Black Zionism, originated in the United States in the 19th century. It encouraged those of African descent to return to the African homelands of their ancestors. This movement would eventually inspire other movements ranging
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Smythe, John Henry (1915-1996)
Jurist and Royal Air Force (RAF) Flight Lieutenant John “Johnny” Henry Smythe was born on June 30, 1915, in the West African port city of Freetown, Sierra Leone. He received a grammar school education and had worked as a civil servant before joining the Sierra Leone Defence Corps (part
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U.S. Department of State Background Note
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A List of Famous African-Americans Who Spent Time in Africa
Most people know about the forced emigration of millions of Africans to the Americas as slaves. Far fewer think of the voluntary flow of the descendants of those slaves back across the Atlantic to visit or live in
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Facing the coronavirus, still haunted by Ebola
We don't talk much about her early life in Sierra Leone, when 3,956 people died during the Ebola epidemic from 2014 to
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Investing in mental healthcare will impact socio-economic development – says president Bio
Addressing Ministers of Government, Development Partners, Staff of the Hospital, and guests of the occasion, president Bio spoke about the importance of investing in mental
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Nigeria
Nigeria, one-third larger than Texas and the most populous country in Africa, is situated on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa. Its neighbors are Benin, Niger, Cameroon, and Chad. The lower course of the Niger River flows south through the western part of the country into the Gulf of Guinea. Swamps
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Fighting for Freedom on Both Sides of the American Revolution
Alan Gilbert, University of Denver political scientist and anti-racist activist, is the author of Black Patriots and Loyalists: Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, one of the few works that examines the free and enslaved blacks who joined the American Patriots and the British
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Brussels Airlines hope to resume flight to Freetown next month
International flights to and from Sierra Leone were grounded by the government of Sierra Leone two months ago, in response to the rapid increase in the number of coronavirus cases in the country, which now stands at almost
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Coronavirus in Africa: 119,454 cases; 3,592 deaths; 48,607 recoveries
There are now more than over 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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Guinea
An outbreak of Ebola hit Guinea in March 2014 and spread to Sierra Leone and Liberia. By September, is estimated to have killed about 430 people in Guinea, and there were nearly 650 suspected and confirmed cases of it in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control. In late August, the
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Black Canadians
Black Canadians is a designation used for people of Black African descent, who are citizens or permanent residents of Canada.[2] [3] The majority of Black Canadians are of Caribbean origin, though the population also consists of African American immigrants and their descendants (including Black
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Perry, June Carter (1943- )
Ambassador June Carter Perry was born November 13, 1943 in Texarkana, Arkansas.  After completing grade school, Perry was accepted at the Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois where in 1965 she earned her degree in history.  Two years later she earned a master’s degree in European History at the
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(1997) The Idea of an African Renaissance, Myth or Reality?
I come to you from a liberated South Africa, a nation that many of you helped to set free. I come from a continent about which more is written but less is understood; so I come with a message that is straight-forward and simple. Like the Apostle Paul on his return from the provinces, I come to
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African Countries' Independence Dates
Egypt, Arab Republic of Feb. 28, 1922   Britain
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Sierra Leone: Doctors Issue Strike Ultimatum Amid COVID-19 Fight
Just two days after low level Covid-19 responders went on strike, medical doctors in Sierra Leone have issued a strike notice over non-payment of allowances and
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Black Nova Scotians
Black Nova Scotians are Black Canadians whose ancestors fled the Colonial United States as slaves or freemen, and later settled in Nova Scotia, Canada during the 18th and early 19th centuries.[5] As of the 2011 Census of Canada, 20,790 black people live in Nova Scotia,[2] most in Halifax, though
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Africa: Some Lessons From the History of Epidemics in Africa
The history of endemic diseases, epidemics and pandemics in Africa shows, contrary to a stubborn belief, that the continent has had a long experience of biomedicine - its theory, techniques, and modes of
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Maps and Locations of African Countries
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Has coronavirus reshaped democratic rights?
There are already signs that some governments are using the crisis to grant themselves more expansive powers than warranted by the health crisis, with insufficient oversight mechanisms, and using their expanded authority to crack down on opposition and tighten their grip on
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Sierra Leone’s new internal affairs minister Panda-Noah takes oath of office
David Maurice Panda-Noah, Sierra Leone’s newly appointed Minister of Internal Affairs, yesterday took his oath of office in the presence of President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House, in accordance with Section 57 (Act No. 6) of the 1991 Constitution of Sierra
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Coronavirus in Africa: 95,482 cases; 3,000 deaths; 38,120 recoveries
There are now more than over 90,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus across the continent, with a number of African countries imposing a range of prevention and containment measures against the spread of the
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