The News Review:

- 2 Bay Area women train midwives in Sierra Leone
- President Ernest Koroma : Fishing alone can lift Sierra Leone up
- Sierra Leone: Football: SLFA Chairman Cites Administrative Lapses
- Sierra Leone: Special Court Crown Zain Champions

2 Bay Area women train midwives in Sierra Leone
San Francisco Chronicle,  USA 
tmpl –>Retirement is anything but slow for two Episcopal deacons from San Francisco. Each year, the Revs. Christie McManus, 60, and Patricia Ross, 57, journey to Sierra Leone to help deliver babies in remote villages with some of the highest infant mortality rates in the world. tmpl –> Images.
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President Ernest Koroma : Fishing alone can lift Sierra Leone up
Cocorioko, Sierra Leone 
PHOTO : PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA

On two separate occasions for both communities on Saturday 1st November 2008, the President, who travelled by helicopter, said he was happy to launch the sites for the construction of jetties and other ancillary facilities in order to give the fishing profession the nobility it deserved. In Shenge, the President said, “No one can finish talking about fishing in Sierra Leone without making mention of Shenge, the fishing basket of this country. This is not time for politics; it is time for development. And development does not choose a face or party or a surname. When it comes, everybody will enjoy; when it’s absent, everybody suffers. And development means we should get new things done.

Sierra Leone: Football: SLFA Chairman Cites Administrative Lapses
AllAfrica.com, Washington 
Chairman of the newly-constituted Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Africell premier league board Friday identified some administrative problems hindering the smooth running of the game. Alpha Timbo made the assertion shortly after he was appointed head of the board which is the first of its kind in the history of Sierra Leone football. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); He said the poor performance by the national team could be linked to the lack of effective national competition and the little attention given to coaches in the country. Timbo however stated that with the expected support from football stakeholders including the media and the SLFA, the upcoming national league would be different. “I thank the SLFA, and football stakeholders for the confidence they had imposed in us.

Sierra Leone: Special Court Crown Zain Champions
AllAfrica.com, Washington 
The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) football team Saturday defeated American Embassy 4-1 to win this year’s Zain mobile phone network cooperate tournament. Two goals from striker Sadiu Turay aka Tombo, with one from Alpha Bangura saw SCSL took an early 3-0 lead in the first half. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); Alpha Bangura rounded the score line to 4-0 in the second half before Sahr Kamnnoh header gave American Embassy a consolation. SCSL striker, Tombo after the match told Concord Sports that they deserve to be crown as championsHe said: “Since the competition commences, our 4-0 victory against Sierra Leone Commercial Bank was a good signal that we are going to clinch this year’s title. “”We played for the title, we’ve got the squad to be champions and we are now crowned as the truly champions.