I was in Sierra Leone recently. During my visit, I observed that some of the mining companies are opening the doors for development in our country. One of them is African Minerals (SL) Limited (AML).
I visited some areas where the company is carrying some of its operations and the visit explains exactly why our President His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma believes that our mineral wealth is making us one of the fastest growing economies in Africa.
Financial results show 2012 was a year of delivery for Sierra Rutile
Written by Expotimes
Wednesday, 01 May 2013 11:00
Describing 2011 as a year of transition and 2012 as “a year of delivery” for Sierra Rutile, CEO John Sisay highlights an impressive list of achievements in the company’s 2012 financial results for the year ended 31 December 2012 (published April 25).
These include increasing rutile production by 39% to 94,493 tonnes, completing the new Lanti Dry Mining project, which is now in the final stages of commissioning, and completing studies on a number of further expansion projects including the Gangama Dry Mining project.
UNICEF provides 73 motorbikes for Water and Sanitation projects
Written by Expotimes
Friday, 12 April 2013 05:39
Press Release:
Freetown, 12 April 2013 – Today UNICEF handed over 73 motorbikes to 20 NGOs implementing water and sanitation projects in Sierra Leone. The bikes will be used for monitoring and implementation of water and sanitation projects aiming at building or rehabilitating wells and sanitation facilities in schools, health centers and communities.
Traditional Healers,The World Bank and MDGs in Ghana
Written by Kofi Akosah-Sarpong - EXPO TIMES Ottawa, Canada
Tuesday, 30 January 2007 10:27
EXPO TIMES Ottawa-based Kofi Akosah-Sarpong examines how open appropriation of traditional healers in Ghana's Upper West Region will help correct some of the inadequacies in the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
The World Bank funding the Northern Savannah Biodiversity Conservation Project so as to “empower traditional healers to come out with more potent and well packaged drugs to instil confidence in their preparations” (Ghana News Agency, January 21, 2006 as carried by ghanaweb.com) raises not only the on-going attempts to balance the huge imbalances in Ghana's developing process, from practically indigenous values point, but righting the inadequacies embedded in the much touted United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), reasonable parts of which deal with international health and development.
EXPO TIMES' Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, in Ottawa, says the reason why African values and experiences have not gained prominence in the continent's policy making and development process is that her elites have misunderstood what is progress
Innovation Prize for Africa Announces 2013 Finalists
Experts from across Africa develop market-oriented solutions to address sanitation, malaria, energy and other challenges while driving economic growth on the continent
CAPE-TOWN, South-Africa, April 25, 2013/ -- Ten African innovators have developed practical solutions to some of the continent’s most intractable problems.
Sierra Leone to vaccinate 1.4 million children during African Vaccination Week
Freetown, 26 April 2013 – From 26 to 29 April 2013 the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and its partners will vaccinate 1.4 million children under the age of five years against Polio. The campaign, which is synchronized with other West African countries, will be carried out nationwide and in line with the African Vaccination Week. Vaccines are estimated to save the lives of 2 to 3 million children worldwide each year.
The Freetown Court No.3 on May 6, 2013, charged Kasho Cole and Ibrahim Samura, Managing Editor and editor respectively of privately-owned Prime Newspaper, on eight counts of offences including criminal defamation for allegedly publishing an article about Lawyer Adekule King, an employee of the National Petroleum Directorate.
Every year Sierra Leoneans in Australia celebrate their mother’s land, Sierra Leone historic Independence Day in a different grand style. To put the community and the country, Sierra Leone in the map of Australia and also to tell the Australians and the world that the Sierra Leone community in Australia and the country as a whole have talented, peaceful and hard working Sierra Leoneans in the country.
The Monitoring and Compliance Unit of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has on Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd May 2013 presented monitoring reports to stakeholders at the SLTU Hall in Makeni. The monitoring reports were on the Ministries of Local Government (Local Councils), Health and Sanitation, Education and Agriculture.
President Koroma Launches National Disaster Response Trust Fund
MIATTA CONFERENCE CENTRE, Brookfields, Freetown, May 8, 2013/ -- His Excellency, President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has said that the provision of an enabling environment to promote human security and poverty reduction at national and local levels is a critical focus area of his government. He made this statement on the occasion of the official launch of the National Disaster Response Trust Fund at the Miatta Conference Centre, Brookfields, Freetown, on Wednesday, May 08, 2013.
Financial results show 2012 was a year of delivery for Sierra Rutile
Describing 2011 as a year of transition and 2012 as “a year of delivery” for Sierra Rutile, CEO John Sisay highlights an impressive list of achievements in the company’s 2012 financial results for the year ended 31 December 2012 (published April 25).
These include increasing rutile production by 39% to 94,493 tonnes, completing the new Lanti Dry Mining project, which is now in the final stages of commissioning, and completing studies on a number of further expansion projects including the Gangama Dry Mining project.
Describing 2011 as a year of transition and 2012 as “a year of delivery” for Sierra Rutile, CEO John Sisay highlights an impressive list of achievements in the company’s 2012 financial results for the year ended 31 December 2012 (published April 25). 