Salone News

Deadline Expires For Parliamentary Aspirants

By Jonathan Leigh. Tuesday (today) was the deadline for political parties to submit to the National Electoral Commission names of aspirants intending to (...)

| June 2007 | 474 views

$314,000 intercepted at Freetown Airport

By Jonathan Leigh. Sekou Cheriff Konte, a Maraka from The Gambia, is in police custody following his arrest last Thursday at the Freetown (...)

| June 2007 | 818 views

Freetown: Music Industry Confab Begins

By Sorie Sudan Sesay, Freetown. Sierra Leonean musicians and stakeholders in the music industry, today converged at the Miatta Conference Hall, Youyi (...)

| June 2007 | 401 views

Ernest Koroma at MMTC was a disaster

Commentary. By John Mannah, USA. I was elated and enthusiastically so when I read the article captioned, “Ernest Koroma Speaks to Milton Margai (...)

| June 2007 | 470 views

Afri-Can Magazine is Ready!

The first edition of Afri-Can Magazine, the sister publication of the Patriotic Vanguard is now on the news stands in Vancouver and will be soon (...)

| June 2007 | 319 views

ActionAid’s Hunger-Free Campaign

By Sorie Sudan Sesay, Freetown ActionAid International Sierra Leone Country Director, Tennyson Williams, has said that 854 million people in the world (...)

| June 2007 | 281 views

Gaddafi Arrives in Sierra Leone

By Jonathan Leigh, Freetown. It has been a very busy schedule for Libyan leader Colonel Muammar al-Ghaddafi since he arrived here late on Monday (...)

| June 2007 | 1414 views

Sierra Leone Prison Report

The Executive Representative of the Secretary-General in Sierra Leone, Mr. Victor Angelo, recently formally presented a report entitled ‘Behind Walls: An Invent

| June 2007 | 317 views

Dauda Tombo Bangura Launches PMDC-Australia

Speech recently delivered by the PMDC’s Honourable Dauda Tombo Bangura(photo) at the launch of the party’s Australia Chapter. DTB is a senior member of (...)

| June 2007 | 436 views

Sierra Unite Celebrates JUNE 16

By Tony Bee Conteh,Sydney, Australia. Sierra Unite Association is one of the Sierra Leonean community in Australia’s social organizations that mainly (...)

| June 2007 | 347 views

NP donates Le10m to NEC

By Sorie Sudan Sesay. National Petroleum last Wednesday donated a cheque of Le10m (ten million Leones) to the National Electoral Commission (NEC) at the (...)

| June 2007 | 379 views

Kabbah Lauds NASSIT

By Sorie Sudan Sesay, Freetown Outgoing President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has some words of praise for the National Social Security and Instuance (...)

| June 2007 | 409 views