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  • UN agency approves 'groundbreaking' anti-illegal fishing treaty 25 Nov 2009 10:50 GMT
    ... Rome - The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has approved a treaty that ... approved a treaty that aims to close fishing ports to ships involved in illegal fishing, ... the European Commission, Indonesia, Iceland, Norway, Samoa, Sierra Leone, the United States and Uruguay - have signed ...

  • Standard Chartered Bank Leads Vitamin A Distribution at Congo Town & Environs 24 Nov 2009 20:50 GMT
    ... 20 million people across 20 cities including Sierra Leone, focusing on blindness prevention and education, as ... communities including, Kroo Bay, Marbella, and Dwarzack Farm. Commenting on the ‘Mami En Pikin Well Bodi ...

  • ILO empowers stakeholders to tackle Child Labour in Sierra Leone 24 Nov 2009 20:50 GMT
    ... empowers stakeholders to tackle Child Labour in Sierra Leone The International Labour Organization (ILO) International Programme ... begging or engaging in work such as farming, mining and other hazardous work. The family ...

  • Rural Agricultural Finance Remains a Serious Problem -Alphonzo Campbell 24 Nov 2009 20:50 GMT
    ... Rural Agricultural Finance Remains a Serious Problem -Alphonzo Campbell ... of financial services to the people of Sierra Leone. He made this statement at the beginning ... that approximately seventy percent (70%) of the Sierra Leonean rural poor practiced subsistence agriculture. Mr. Campbell also ...

  • What Is the African Union? 24 Nov 2009 11:31 GMT
    ... such as foreign trade, social security, food, agriculture and communications. Meanwhile, the Peace and Security ... Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia ...

  • The Story of 500 Years of Global Greed and Misery 23 Nov 2009 21:56 GMT
    ... He made "The Empire in Africa" about Sierra Leone. The drama of the new film, , is ... that if we bring mosquito nets and fertilizers, it will end poverty." For example, Diaz ... coffee. Diaz points out, "The minister of agriculture, Kipruto Arap Kirwa, says in the film ...

  • Female Councillors Receive Training in Leadership and Confidence Building 23 Nov 2009 19:20 GMT
    ... councillors from all 19 Local Councils in Sierra Leone on Wednesday November 19 commenced a three-day training ... undertaking development projects in the area of agriculture. Sembia Johnson who is President of the ...

  • Hungry for Opportunities, European Investors Eye Africa's Unlisted Firms 23 Nov 2009 14:00 GMT
    ... an unpaid adviser to Mr Kagame and Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma, whose country was named ... pulled out of a Sh46 billion wind farm power project in Kenya due to what it ...

  • Where crisis begins at birth 22 Nov 2009 05:41 GMT
    ... Many of Dr. Ibrahim Thorlie's colleagues left Sierra Leone for lucrative jobs in the United States ... war compelled thousands of the most educated Sierra Leoneans to go into exile in the United ... outskirts of the capital. Michael Kargbo, a Sierra Leonean who ran a construction company in New ...

  • Bawku needs robust military presence -Lt Col. Ogboma 21 Nov 2009 22:20 GMT
    ... the Region. They also asked that the farmers in the Region should be provided with agriculture technology and adding, there were a lot ... were eight in number were from Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Rwanda and Gambia are expected to complete ...

  • Homeless on the Capitol's doorstep 21 Nov 2009 02:51 GMT
    ... requiring Herculean effort. A US department of agriculture report issued this week found that 49 ... Africa and later adopted a girl from Sierra Leone whose arm had been amputated. “There is just ...

  • Food: If words were food, nobody would go hungry 20 Nov 2009 21:13 GMT
    ... food, nobody would go hungry Investment in agriculture is soaring. So, worryingly, is distrust of ... were another supply or demand shock, the farm-trade system would not cushion the blow. It ... interventions. The governments of Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone have started to negotiate with wholesalers to control ...

  • The Song That Sparks Governance Debate 20 Nov 2009 20:19 GMT
    ... like the song released by one of Sierra Leone's most popular artists, Emerson Bockarie. The song, "Yesterday ... to improve on it. We have prioritised agriculture, and increased the agriculture budget from 1.7 ...

  • European Investors Eye Unlisted Firms 20 Nov 2009 19:15 GMT
    ... an unpaid adviser to Mr Kagame and Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma, whose country was named ... pulled out of a Sh46 billion wind farm power project in Kenya due to what it ...

  • Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Presents Country's Potential To International Investors 20 Nov 2009 16:57 GMT
    ... PRESSWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Government of Sierra Leone marked eight years of widely under-appreciated political and ... thanks to his determined leadership. "By transforming agriculture, investing in energy and infrastructure, and creating ... Transparency International found that almost two-thirds of Sierra Leoneans believed that the Government's efforts in the ...

  • As investment forum ends '¦ UTB gets $5m Soros funds 20 Nov 2009 16:50 GMT
    ... parpin announcing the $5 million investment The Sierra Leonean owned Union Trust Bank on Tuesday became ... the largest providers of financial services in Sierra Leone (clarifying that they – UTB) are not ... the total shares of the bank ... Sierra Leoneans are still the largest share holders of ...

  • With 300 out of $850 million Finance Minister says '¦ 'Sierra Leone has International goodwill' 20 Nov 2009 16:50 GMT
    ... of $850 million Finance Minister says … “Sierra Leone has International goodwill” At the end of the ... it.” After outlining his vision for energy, agriculture, transport infrastructure, water sector, education and health ...

  • NEPAD And Agra - Partnering for Action On Africa's Farms 20 Nov 2009 15:10 GMT
    ... African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman ... a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus ... sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact ...

  • Nation Among World's Hunger Prone Countries 20 Nov 2009 12:30 GMT
    ... food to feed themselves and that their farmers are amongst the hungriest and poorest in ... than the poor and conflict-torn countries like Sierra Leone, despite having a per capita income of over ... a central role of the state in agriculture by developing and supporting poor farmers through ...

  • Hungry for Opportunities, European Investors Eye Unlisted Firms 20 Nov 2009 11:55 GMT
    ... an unpaid adviser to Mr Kagame and Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma, whose country was named ... pulled out of a Sh46 billion wind farm power project in Kenya due to what it ...

  • 20 years after UN pact, many children still suffer 20 Nov 2009 11:16 GMT
    ... backache from toting sacks of vegetables. In Sierra Leone a former child soldier is going to ... under their desks. Millions of impoverished Chinese farmers have moved to prosperous cities to build ...

  • 20 years after UN pact, many children still suffer 20 Nov 2009 10:50 GMT
    ... backache from toting sacks of vegetables. In Sierra Leone a former child soldier is going to ... under their desks. Millions of impoverished Chinese farmers have moved to prosperous cities to build ...

  • Continent Can Achieve Food Security Through Improved Agriculture [opinion] 20 Nov 2009 09:51 GMT
    ... African farmers are seeding prosperity. Just ask the woman ... a new breed of Nerica rice in Sierra Leone. She now produces enough to sell the surplus ... sprang from the government's renewed commitment to agriculture, sealed when it recently signed a compact ...

  • 20 years after UN pact to protect children, some successes alongside a long list of woes 20 Nov 2009 08:57 GMT
    ... backache from toting sacks of vegetables. In Sierra Leone a former child soldier is going to ... under their desks. Millions of impoverished Chinese farmers have moved to prosperous cities to build ...

  • Children still suffer 20 years after UN pact 20 Nov 2009 06:52 GMT
    ... under their desks. Millions of impoverished Chinese farmers have moved to prosperous cities to build ... a police officer or a firefighter." FREETOWN (SIERRA LEONE): Alhaji Babah Sawaneh's commander ordered him to ...


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