The News Review:

- Sierra Leone: President Koroma and the New Agenda of Change
- SocketWorks to promote e-culture in Sierra Leone
- Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leone’s ex-child soldier, storms New …

Sierra Leone: President Koroma and the New Agenda of Change
African Path, MN 
The eventual collapse of internal regime discipline and resulting explosion of parallel economic activity marked the beginning of the descent into civil war. The food crisis has exposed Sierra Leone into continuing economic fragility and dependence on food imports, despite its agricultural potential. Successive post-independence governments have heavily relied on import-export revenues and squeezed this sector as hard as they could. The current crisis has underscored that food imports are still controlled by a handful of large, mostly Lebanese firms. Prior to the report of global increases in food prices the issue was mooted, there was much speculation in Freetown that these traders had received preferential treatment under Kabbah and were withholding imports to wrest similar concession from the new government. The early months of the Koroma presidency illustrated the economic constraints facing any government in present day Sierra Leone regardless of political agenda.
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SocketWorks to promote e-culture in Sierra Leone
NetworkWorld.com, MA 
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The Sierra Leonean arm of SocketWorks Global is working to establish an e-culture in the country, said SocketWorks CEO Patrick
Taylor. “What we are doing in Sierra Leone is to introduce the e-culture into all the spheres of endeavor in the country,” Taylor
said. “We believe that developing countries can be transformed to developed mainly by the use of ICT in all spheres of business.

Ishmael Beah, Sierra Leone’s ex-child soldier, storms New …
Cocorioko, Sierra Leone 
The ceremony is being sponsored once again by officials of the Rutgers University Center For African Studies ,who also organized the highly-successful Presidential Town meeting last month, which featured Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma and many of his high-profiled ministers of government. Renee Delancy, the Assistant to the Director at Rutgers University's Center for African Studies, in informing COCORIOKO about the event, said : " We do hope that you will attend the program and perhaps cover it in your online paper.