The News Review:

- MRU Nations to Share Electricity in Sierra Leone
- Awareness Times News Briefs from Sierra Leone
- Reader expresses frustration at mess in Sierra Leone
- Orientation And Induction For SLIEPA Staff in Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone: Mr One Drop Sankoh Did Not Lie “Gbata Gbata”
- Sierra Leone: Bo Gets Another Africell Millionaire

MRU Nations to Share Electricity in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone 
The meeting was held at the Kimbima Hotel in Freetown. Welcoming the Secretary General of West Africa Power Pool and the rest of the dignitaries present, the Minister of Energy and Power, Haja Afsatu Kabba expressed the Sierra Leone governments commitment in providing sustainable electricity to its people. She said that it is a welcoming idea to start planning for an Interconnection power project in West Africa. The Secretary General of West Africa Power Pool (WAPP), Mr. Amadou Diallo, in his speech to the audience explained that the purpose of the gathering is to create a framework for the coordination and fast-tracking of the implementation of the project. He added that the project comprises of the construction of a high voltage transmission line of approximately 1,100 kilometer in length and with 12 associated high voltage substations.

Awareness Times News Briefs from Sierra Leone
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone 
It also decried community safety in mining areas in the country. According to reports, the rationale behind the impact assessment of mining projects is to improve governance, security and peace by strengthening the capacity of government to monitor the extractive industries sector and supporting of anti-corruption measures applicable to mining sector and facilitate contribution of mining sector into local economic development. Salones Envoy to Iran Bids FarewellReports say the Sierra Leones Ambassador designate to the Republic of Iran, Ambassador Kemoh Fadika has bade farewell to His Excellency President Ernest Bai Koroma at State House. President Ernest Bai Koroma is said to have urged the Ambassador to exhibit high degree of diplomacy as well as revive to Iran the countrys development priorities. Ambassador Kemoh Fadika told President Koroma that is he aware of the intricacies of diplomacy and promise to execute his duties judiciously in the interest of the country. Assault on Journalists Should Be InvestigatedThe International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the Sierra Leonean government to conduct an investigation into the assault by police on journalists by security personnel attached to the State House, local tabloids have intimated. The Director of the IFJ Africa office, Gabriel Baglo is said to have intimated that the behaviour of the police is an unacceptable one that cannot be ignored.

Reader expresses frustration at mess in Sierra Leone
Cocorioko, Sierra Leone 
At this junction i want to send my little contributions weekly by sending articles to you. A bit more confused when i did not heard from you in the past few days, hope you are now back for real. However the rate at which issues are happenning in my country is far from human belief, especially in terms of development, even before the so -called war; things are not really working in the interest of the common Sierra leonean, even nature is not in our favour, coupled with recent cocain saga. At present I am in UK, just recently completing international development studies, now refugee studies.

Orientation And Induction For SLIEPA Staff in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone 
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) SLIEPA, Mr. Adeyemie Rodney-Sandy, admonished the staff that one of the primary functions of the agency is to promote export through sensitization on the benefits of opportunities in the international market. He said aSLIEPAs membership is comprised of both the private and public sectors. The Chairperson, Board of Directors, Mrs.

Sierra Leone: Mr One Drop Sankoh Did Not Lie “Gbata Gbata”
AllAfrica.com, Washington 
The APC’s reintroduction of multi-party during the Momoh era led to the seven splinter political parties which that writer is making reference to; the Iron Curtain belonged to Chairman Mao’s China while the policy or practice of more open government and wider dissemination of information (glasnost) and the policy or practice of reforming the economy and political system (perestroika) were practised in the 1980s under Mikhail Gorbachev. Again if I should use one of the Mass Communications research methods (Content Analysis) to dissect Leo Augustus’s ‘good’ grasp of history, you will realise that my very poor sense of history is good than his very good sense of history. Reading his above quote, one gets the feeling that the Sierra Leone press contributed to the fall of the Iron Curtain in China under the policies of Gorbachev and Yeltsin in Russia. Except Mr Augustus wants to convince me that he is writing metaphysical poetry! This is not “a One-Drop Mystification” as he claims in page four of his article. This is just one of the many off-the-rails statements Leo Augustus litters his article with to convince his readers that, “Mohamed Sankoh was on the high side of emotionalism” when I wrote that article. But the trust of that article was to show that each newspaper in Sierra Leone has its own genre. Like if you are talking about a newspaper that is known for running stories with middle-of-the-road non-hysterical reports, then the Awoko comes to mind.

Sierra Leone: Bo Gets Another Africell Millionaire
All Africa ICT, Africa 
The lucky subscriber won after a raffle draw that took place at the Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); Guest of honour Brig. Alfred Nelson-Williams said Africell was the best in terms of mobile communications in the country. “Sierra Loneans should have confidence in whatever Africell is doing because they are not in Sierra Leone to cheat on subscribers. The draw is transparent,” he observed.