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Dr. Yumkella speaks about Sierra Leone’s judiciary as parliament approves Appeals Court Judges
Democracy was at work in Sierra Leone’s parliament yesterday, when the main opposition APC party, led by  Honourable Chernoh Ramadan Maju Bah voted against two of the eight presidential nominees put forward by president Julius Maada Bio for MPs
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Land Rover Defenders SA launch goes off-road for interactive digital reveal
SA sports stars, personalities and adventurers in the line-up for epic Land Rover Defender digital launch.
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Where is Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio?
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2020: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone is now out of the country for over two weeks without any update from State House about his health, welfare or whereabouts. People of Sierra Leone are quite right to be concerned. The last report about the [Read
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Vanessa Lynn Williams is a Grammy nominated singer, former beauty queen and television and film actress. She was born on March 18, 1963 in Bronx, New York but soon moved to a more fashionable neighborhood. Her parents, Milton and Helen Williams, both worked as music teachers and so Williams and her
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Krio Descendants Yunion (KDY) celebrates 233 years heritage at global thanksgiving
Abdul Rashid Thomas & Pauline Pratt: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2020: The arrival of the first freed slaves to Sierra Leone in 1787 after the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade which led to the creation of what became known as Freetown – the capital city of Sierra Leone, is an
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Georgia NAACP Joins NAACP Appling County, NAACP Brunswick, Activists and Friends of Ahmaud Arbery | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Baxley, GA – The Appling County NAACP is calling for the removal of Sheriff Mark Melton and the termination of District Attorney Jackie Johnson as a result in the wrongful death of Kelsey Rayner, who was denied medical attention for a ruptured colon on the floor of a jail cell. This is another cold
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Sierra Leone Parliament exposes corruption in China Kingho’s deal
Fritong Post Investigating Team: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2020: As the Parliamentary Committee on Transparency and Accountability continues to probe Sierra Leone's National Minerals Agency (NMA), more questions than answers have emerged regarding the circumstances under which four
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Irish Monkeys vs Boot Steppers—Stop Exposure to Explicit Racism in Online Video Gaming
Screaming out from their avatars’ game shirts in bold white lettering was the word, ‘Nigger’ Their shirts included the Nike swoosh logo and a distorted image of a Black male head and
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Meteorological agency calls for action to avert mudslide disasters in Freetown
Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2020: Sierra Leoneans should brace up for frequent thunderstorms and heavy winds this rainy season, resulting from the direct impacts of climate change on the environment. The likely unprecedented nature in which these occurrences will take place
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Black Households Earned 61 Cents for Every Dollar of White Median Incomes | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Racial residential segregation is a significant predictor of the magnitude of the Black-White disparity in fatal police shootings at the city level. Efforts to ameliorate the problem of fatal police violence must move beyond the individual level and consider the interaction
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Brazen armed robbers arrested during curfew in Freetown
Sierra Leoneans are raising concerns over the spate of armed robberies in the country, and calling on the police to be more
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Jennifer Hudson’s home for sale | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Now, the wait begins for the new owner of a house in Englewood where a triple murder shocked the world and rocked the fairytale rags-to-riches story of superstar Jennifer
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Texas Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Receives NNPA 2020 National Leadership Award
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) has introduced several bills, including the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act, H.R. 71, the Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act of 2015, and H.R. 4660, an
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Justice cries resonate as Henry cousins laid to rest - Stabroek News
Cries for justice rose louder yesterday as the two teenagers hacked to death last weekend were memorialised in  emotional ceremonies in the city before being laid to rest in the Number 5 Village, West Coast Berbice (WCB) burial
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COVID-19 test chaos at Sierra Leone’s Lungi Airport – officials accused of corruption
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2020: There was confusion and chaos at Sierra Leone’s Lungi International Airport last week, when passengers arriving at the airport from overseas were told to pay $80 for a COVID-19 test that does not exist. Hundreds of arrivals who had already taken COVID-19 test
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Uganda: Pandemic Accelerates Shifts in Office Designs, Limits Face to Face Interactions
Willis Otto Olanya employs people at Owel Architecture Limited and warns employers about the potential for liability should employees fall sick at the
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We must overhaul our education systems
Oswald Hanciles (The Guru): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 July 2020: The educational systems in Sierra Leone have been monumental failures. It is obvious. The festering poverty of Sierra Leoneans sitting on top  of some of the wealthiest marketable natural resources in the world is a gnawing pointer
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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The power of professional certification is known to all of us. We all know that it makes a candidate eligible and gives him/her career stability. ExamCollection.net But, what about the monetary benefits?! Do they give better ROI? Having the answers to these questions before going for professional
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Hanging Tree Guitars: The Wood's 'Not Good, Not Bad, Not Ugly - Just Strange'
Freeman Vines is an African American luthier who creates what have been called "contemporary art sculptures hidden as guitars" out of old wood, some of it from a tree used for a lynching.
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Eerie Apocalyptic Sky in Bay Area Raises Concerns for Residents
In addition to smoke from the August fires, the Bay Area branch of the National Weather Service noted on Twitter that lower temperatures and weaker winds compared to the last several days are allowing wildfire smoke suspended in the air to fall closer to the ground, contributing to the sky color
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Public Relations Expert Gwendolyn Quinn Thrives As a Global Communicator
[ad_1] The public relations game can swallow you if you don’t have the passion to make things exceptional, particularly for your clientele. But when your first major client is Aretha Franklin, it’s safe to say that you’re on the path to success. Gwendolyn Quinn has been in the entertainment
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COMMENTARY: "Losers"???!!! | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — My fury with Trump over his approach towards service men and women is not rooted in jingoism. Anyone having read any of my columns is aware of my consistent critiques of US foreign policy generally, and US military adventurism in particular. But, like many of you, I have had
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President Bio unveils Digital Health Learning Platforms for healthcare workers in Bonthe
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2020: In Mattru Jong, Bonthe District in Southern Sierra Leone yesterday, Friday 3 July 2020 , President Dr Julius Maada Bio introduced a Mobile Training and Support (MOTS) digital learning platform, whilst also unveiling the pilot distribution of laboratory equipment
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
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Black Workers More Likely to Face Retaliation for Raising Coronavirus Concerns
A survey by the National Employment Law Project (NELP) about working conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that corporate America has treated Black workers categorically worse than White workers during the
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How Strong Is Your C-Suite Bullpen? Preparing The Next Generation Of Leaders - Milwaukee Community Journal
About $350 billion a year is spent on leadership development, but many companies aren’t getting much bang out of their buck. Studies indicate that lots of senior executives don’t think the next wave is prepared well enough to assume larger leadership roles. With many companies in a transitional
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The last thing our country needs is megalomania – Op ed
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2020: “Government of Sierra Leone explores development of domestic air travel”. This is one headline in the Sierra Leone Telegraph that caught my eye this week. According to the newspaper, discussions have been held to explore the possibility of
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Source: SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH – Sierra Leone News
Nigeria: Govt - Universities Enrolled Dead ASUU Members Into IPPIS
The federal government yesterday accused universities of deliberately accommodating dead members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the payroll forwarded to the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation
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Dr Sylvia Blyden’s case adjourned without bail
Sierra Leone’s former minister of social welfare in the Koroma-led APC government – Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, today appeared at the Magistrate court in Freetown after spending almost six weeks in
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Sierra Leone may soon bring in new land rights law to promote gender and tribal equality and social justice
Sierra Leone now has new land rights law to promote gender and tribal equality and social justice
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President Bio accused of squandering £100,000 of taxpayers’ cash on overseas holiday and money traficking
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“Turn out impressive, process generally orderly and peaceful” – says Koroma, as counting gets underway in Kenyan polls
Three dead in Freetown as Sierra Leone is shutdown by protesters calling for the resignation of President Bio
International community calls for calm in Sierra Leone after hours of deadly protests
Why Sierra Leoneans are happy with challenge to Maada Bio’s bloodshed and bullying – Op ed
Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr calls for peace after deadly protests in Sierra Leone
Opposition APC says it unreservedly condemn all forms of violence
Sierra Leone police interim report on the deadly protest is out and makes for grim reading
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Market stalls at Abacha Street Market in Freetown destroyed as security forces mount brutal crackdown
How many times can we say NEVER AGAIN? Op ed
Opposition APC media strongman assasinated as fears grow over return of extra-judicial killings in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone police say Evangelist Samson was killed in crossfire between armed police and ex-combatants
The one-party system of the SLPP-APC coalition: fetus in fetu or Siamese twins?
Sierra Leone –  Nexus of economic hardships, leadership and decolonisation of the political economy – Op ed
Sierra Leone deadly protests – there are two sides to a coin – Op ed
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APC parliamentary leader chericoco takes charge and debunks lies and false allegations against our party – Op ed
President Bio discusses post-riot national healing with tribal heads in Freetown 
Freedom of speech and the crisis of responsibility in Sierra Leone
President of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists – Nasralla tells President Bio and politicians to tone down political rhetoric
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Mayor Aki-Sawyerr admonishes Youth Ambassadors to promote peace as the foundation for national development 
Majority of Sierra Leoneans are experiencing a climate of fear of political reprisals – Op ed
Nigerians lampoon President Bio over his gun-toting terrorists gaffe
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NACE welcomes Sierra Leone’s Mines and Minerals Development Law but calls for actionable regulations to benefit communities
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President Bio accused of prejudicing investigation into Bloody Wednesday
Trigger-happy Retired Brigadier Maada Bio who betrayed his people – Op ed
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Widespread destruction and loss of life in Freetown as heavy rains take its toll
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Cost of air travel to Sierra Leone goes up as government reneges on commitment to ensure security of air passengers
Sierra Leone – Cry, the divided country: where does the buck stop?
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Voter registration ahead of next year’s elections in Sierra Leone marred by faulty computers
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Voter fraud and elections rigging take place well before polling day in Sierra Leone – Op ed
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