20120126
Reuters
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has sacked Energy Minister Ogunlade Davidson over his department's poor performance, a spokesman said on Wednesday.

20120126
Reuters
FREETOWN (Reuters) - On the fifth floor of Sierra Leone's main government office building, a decaying hulk where working toilets are scarce and the lift unreliable, Mines Director Jonathan Sharkah exudes optimism.

20110924
Reuters
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's police have imposed an indefinite ban on political rallies following a spate of violence in the West African nation which is still recovering from a long civil war, a police spokesman said on Friday.

20110910
Reuters
FREETOWN (Reuters) - Gunfire broke out in Sierra Leone's second biggest town, Bo, on Friday as supporters of rival political parties clashed in the streets, sources said.

20110513
IPS

Freetown — In Sierra Leone's highly patriarchal society, where institutionalised gender inequalities are exacerbated by discriminatory customs, one group is singing its way towards changing this.

20110301
reuters

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's Supreme Court has banned the country's main opposition party from meeting to choose its presidential candidate, sparking accusations of government interference.

20110128
reuters

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Special Court for Sierra Leone trying former Liberian President Charles Taylor for war crimes on Friday dismissed a challenge to its impartiality that was based on U.S. embassy cables published by WikiLeaks.

20101207
africanews

Sierra Leone's Vice President Alhaji Samuel Sam- Sumana has fired the Director of Prisons Moses Showers following the dramatic escaped of some 19 hardcore criminals last weekend. Alhaji Sam-Sumana visited the prison accompanied by the Defense minister Paolo Conteh and the Chief Justice Umu Hawa Tejan Jalloh described the incident as a 'disgrace.'

20101206
africanews

It was in the afternoon hours on Sunday and the scene was the Pademba road maximum prison situated in the heart of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone. A black jeep with unidentified registration number with two ladies onboard arrived at the prison on the pretext of visiting prisoners. Few minutes after they left, there was reportedly gun shot, and dozens of hard core criminals overpowered the prison officers and made their way out.

20101206
africanews

President Ernest Koroma of Sierra Leone reshuffled his cabinet at the weekend that saw the dismissal of justice and trade ministers. Koroma replaced his minister of foreign affairs, a statement read on state television said.

20101129
africanews

Sierra Leone has expressed surprise at the sudden closure of its border with its fellow West African country Guinea over the weekend.

20101106
africanews

Isaiah Washington former Grey's Anatomy star and a veteran of Spike Lee films continues to bring hope to the people of Sierra Leone since he discovered his DNA to the Mende and Temne people of the small West African nation.

20101025
reuters

HASTINGS, Sierra Leone (Reuters) - In a patch of freshly cleared bush a short drive outside the capital Freetown, U.S. trainers look on as Sierra Leonean troops crawl over red laterite soil and square their rifles at imagined targets.