The News Review:

- Eight indicted in scheme to smuggle stolen cars to Sierra Leone
- Awareness Times News Briefs from Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone president speaks at Rutgers, draws crowd of expatriates
- Journalists Set To Promote Disability Issues in Sierra Leone
- NaCSA Targets Livestock Business in Sierra Leone
- PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA DELIGHTS AND CHALLENGES SIERRA LEONEANS IN …
- First Year Progress Report :”President Koroma Is On The Right Track”

Eight indicted in scheme to smuggle stolen cars to Sierra Leone
The Star-Ledger – NJ.com, NJ 
The indictment charges that the eight conspired since April to steal the cars and ship them to Sierra Leone using an unidentified shipping company in Sayreville. One vehicle was allegedly taken at gunpoint in Washington D. , while others were stolen from car dealerships. The defendants presented the shipping company with false title documents to conceal the fact that the cars were stolen, according to the indictment.

Awareness Times News Briefs from Sierra Leone
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone 
US Embassy Sponsors Training ProgrammeThe US Ambassador, June Carter Perry has graced the Certification Ceremony of Force Intelligence and Security Unit Personnel following completion of a Joint Intelligence Workshop that was held in Freetown from 8th to 17th September 2008. In a speech delivered at the auspicious occasion, the newly appointed Chief of Defense Staff, Brigadier Alfred Claude Nelson Williams said the occasion was unique not only because it was the first of its kind between America and Sierra Leone but because it included all ranks of the military. He also expressed thanks for the manifestation in various forms of assistance from the US military to their Sierra Leone counterparts. The workshop, which trained 24 Sierra Leonean military personnel, cost the American Government the sum of 40,000 United States dollars. Osho Coker Sworn in As Secretary to PresidentVeteran civil servant Ernestus Osho Coker has been duly sworn in to act as the Secretary to President Ernest Koroma. The President reportedly admonished his new principal assistant not to betray the confidence that had been reposed in him. He challenged him to work in the interests of the State and the citizens at all times.

Sierra Leone president speaks at Rutgers, draws crowd of expatriates
Scarlet Scuttlebutt, NJ 
After spending several years in the United States, supporters and skeptics of the new president said they were anxious to hear about recent progress in their native country, which they said has suffered from government corruption in the past. “We’ve always had politicians that gave us promises but didn’t deliver,” said Zainu Tunis, who has lived in Piscataway for 15 years. “Now we’re hoping that things are turning around, and that he will deliver to the people of Sierra Leone. “Tunis said he grew up in the West African country during prosperous times and when a free education was available to its citizens. But he left nearly two decades ago during the approach of a deadly civil war.

Journalists Set To Promote Disability Issues in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone 
The 10 membership network was established on the 12th of September 2008. Network Coordinator, Mr. Francis Sowa told the Awareness Times that the umbrella network was formed in Dakar, Senegal on the 24th April 2008 at the end of a three-day training on Disability Reporting from a Human Rights Perspective held from the 22nd to the 24th April 2008. “The training was aimed at promoting the rights of persons with disabilities and how they could be included in everyday media coverage,” the coordinator intimated, adding that, the training also provided knowledge about the new convention on the rights of persons with disabilities and the terminology guide.

NaCSA Targets Livestock Business in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone 
The intervention is part of the business development component of the Pro-poor Growth for Peace Consolidation (GPC) programme of the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA). GPC Programme Manager, Richard Sesay underlined the importance of livestock production to food self-sufficiency and general development of the agricultural sector in the country. Livestock Consultant, Dr.

PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA DELIGHTS AND CHALLENGES SIERRA LEONEANS IN …
Cocorioko, Sierra Leone 
Amidst periodic rapturous applause from the crowd, the President said that his government prioritized the restoration of energy in Sierra Leone because the delivery of electricity was central to the resuscitation of the economy, reactivation of industries and the creation of jobs. The President stated that his government decided to put in place an emergency energy program. We inherited only 7 magawatts of electricity which was far from enough for our capital. "Within a 100 days, we had increased power generation from 7 to 22 megawatts. Today, we are now at the level of 32 megawatts and Freetown is no longer the darkest city in Africa ", the President declared , amidst cheers from the packed hall.

First Year Progress Report :”President Koroma Is On The Right Track”
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone 
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