SIERRA LEONE NEWS Archive

  • Journalists for Human Rights

    jhr fellow helps government improve conditions of state prisons in Sierra Leone

    Posted on March 19, 2010 | No Comments
    As a part of jhrs Fellowship program, jhr trained journalist Mohamed Massaquoi investigated the conditions of the Kenema state prison in Sierra Leone. He discovered that the prison had no medical facilities and inmates were afflicted with multiple diseases, including chicken pox, scabies, piles and...

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  • Human Rights Council and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone

    Human Rights Council and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone

    Posted on October 9, 2009 | No Comments
    On 22 of September 2009 the Human Rights Council concluded its general debate on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development, and started its general debate on human rights situations that require...

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    Kroo Bay Flooding, Freetown

    Posted on October 4, 2009 | No Comments
    The video about the extreme flooding in Kroo Bay, the biggest slum in Freetown, was produced in August by the Canadian journalist Allison Cross. Allison website: www.theallisoncross.com Read also the related article: Fatal and merciless august rain in Sierra Leone

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    Freetown motor bike (Okada rider) saga

    Posted on September 1, 2009 | No Comments
    What means “Okada rider“: In the main square of Makeni, a couple of hours’ drive into the jungle from Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, young men sit around on their motorbikes, chatting, joking and swapping cigarettes. These are the town’s taxi-drivers – okada riders, in the...

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    The terrific traffic in Sierra Leone

    Posted on September 1, 2009 | No Comments
    Sierra Leone is dated to have been facilitated with the motor way for the colonial masters vehicles as well as the railway track, through which we were administered and exploited respectively since the 1940s. But since then, Sierra Leone capital has become an irony, or...

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    Fatal and merciless august rain in Sierra Leone

    Posted on August 31, 2009 | No Comments
    Reclaiming the Lion Mountain (Sierra Leone), from the destructive grip of the fatal and merciless August rainfall. August 2009 has been one of the most destructive months in the Sierra Leonean calendar ever since the country’s foundation See also the related video: Kroo Bay Flooding,...

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    Special Court for Sierra Leone convicted leaders of the Revolutionary United Front

    Posted on February 28, 2009 | No Comments
    FREETOWN, 26 February 2009 (IRIN NEWS) The Special Court for Sierra Leone on 25 February convicted three former leaders of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), marking the first time a court has convicted on the charge of “forced marriage”. It also set a precedent by...

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    Sierra Leone civil war: trio guilty of war crimes

    Posted on February 28, 2009 | No Comments
    An international tribunal has found three Sierra Leone rebels guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity RUF leaders Issa Sesay and Morris Kallon were convicted of 16 of the 18 charges, while Augustine Gbao, was found guilty on 14 of the counts. The Freetown...

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  • Flooding is imminent at Sierra Rutile

    Flooding is imminent at Sierra Rutile

    Posted on October 24, 2008 | No Comments
    By Solomon Rogers (Human Rights Boss) The Executive Director of the Human Rights Respect Raising Awareness Campaigners (HURRARC) , Sahr GMP Fania has with a very heavy heart narrated to journalists at the Amnesty International office at Pademba road over the weekend that the situation...

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