Month: January 2013
Confirmed! Sierra Leone’s Kei Kamara leaves Sporting KC on loan to Norwich City
Sporting KC has just announced that Kei Kamara who led Major League Soccer with 134 shots in 2012 has been loaned to Norwich City in the English Premiership till May 2013. ...Ivory Coast’s Emmanuel Eboue takes on all of Nigeria on twitter
If like me and the many unexcited football fans you have yet to watch a single AFCON 2013 match I’ll suggest that you at least check out the hilarious tweets from Ivory ...PRESS RELEASE: Sierra Leone Chief Medical Officer, 10 health officials suspended for GAVI graft
The President of Sierra Leone yesterday announced that 10 officials under investigations by the Anti Corruption Commission have been suspended until further notice so that they may not interfere or impede the ...Sierra Leone low on 2012 Open Budget Index for poor public involvement
A new report from the International Budget Partnership gives Sierra Leone a score of 39 percent for providing just minimal information on the government’s annual budget and expenditure to the public. The ...New electronic billboard launched to publish government spending in Liberia
In Monrovia, citizens can now keep track of government spending with an electronic billboard funded by the US government. The billboard is part of a new Open Budget Initiative to increase transparency ...Sports Update: Mo Bangura leaves Celtic, Kei Kamara England rumors
Kei Kamara’s contract at Kansas City ends this year, and rumor has it that he may be headed to Norwich City in the English Premiership. Kei has been at Kansas since 2009. ...Who done it? $1 Million GAVI funds disappear at Sierra Leone Ministry of Health
Sierra Leone’s anti graft agency has invited senior officials at the Ministry of Health to give evidence in a new investigation into allegations of the misuse of donor funds. About $1.1 million ...In Sierra Leone ‘Mamaye’ maternal health campaign goes online
Mamaye! a maternal health advocacy project in Sierra Leone funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID) is using social media and the web to raise awareness about the right of ...Sierra Leone’s capital city elects a woman as Deputy Mayor
Mrs. Hannah Mary Jaiah of Ward 360, Constituency 101 has been elected as Deputy Mayor of the Freetown City Council. This comes after much disappointment in the movement for a 30% quota ...7500 Metric tons of fuel to salvage shortage in Sierra Leone
By Alpha B Kamara in Freetown The outgoing minister of Trade and present Chief of Staff, Dr. Richard Conteh, has today allayed fears that the price of fuel will be increased despite ...