The News Review:

- Sierra Leone: Koroma Hosts Church Leaders, Visits Osho-Williams Family
- New glossary in Sierra Leone’s major languages issued by UN-backed …
- Eugene Davies Commission Exposes Ex-President Kabbah in Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone: Ecotourism a Gateway to Sierra Leone Tourism
- Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Keen on Investment Climate
- China to Promote Cooperation with Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone: Proliferation of Cinemas Worrisome

Sierra Leone: Koroma Hosts Church Leaders, Visits Osho-Williams Family
AllAfrica.com, Washington 
Introducing the visitors, Bishop Tom Barnett called them friends who have resolved to live in unity and share peace for the benefit of mankind. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); He said they are in Sierra Leone to learn from the people how they survived the difficult and trying times of the war. The team’s leader, Rev. Robert Abboagye-Mensah, said the World Council of Churches followed events during the war in Sierra Leone and Liberia, and they are now here to learn from this country’s experiences from violence to peace and stability.
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New glossary in Sierra Leone’s major languages issued by UN-backed …
UN News Centre 
“When people are charged before a court, they have the right to hear the case against them in a language they understand,” Herman von Hebel said at a ceremony yesterday presided over by the country’s Acting Chief Justice, Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh. “This glossary will contribute significantly in making this possible. ”

The “Integrated Glossary of Legal Terminology: Krio, Limba, Mende, Themne” was compiled by the Court’s Language Unit and draws upon the experience of its interpreters.

Eugene Davies Commission Exposes Ex-President Kabbah in Sierra Leone
Standard Times Press, Sierra Leone 
Among the stakeholders, the name Ahmed Tejan Kabbah was implicated as one of the participants in the deal that saw a ship load of coffee-coco unaccounted for to the state and people of Sierra Leone. In his recommendation, Justice Beoku Betts said “This man is very intelligent but can easily lapsed into corrupt practices” and added “he should not occupy public office” referring to Ahmed Tejan Kabbah, who by then was physically absent in the country. History, it would appear has repeated itself involving ex-president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone. It is not known whether this is the same individual who was allegedly in the coffee-coco deal that deprived this country of millions of foreign currencies by then as the first two names are spelt differently. The first name of the individual in the coffee-coco deal was spelt AHMED, while the first name of the ex-president is spelt AHMAD. It would be recalled that ex-president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah ceased to become the president of Sierra Leone after the September 2007 run-off presidential election that saw the APC candidate Ernest Bai Koroma emerged as the winner. The 1991 Constitution stipulates that ex-presidents are entitled to pensions and gratuities and ex-President Kabbah as one of the past Presidents of the country is entitle to such benefit.

Sierra Leone: Ecotourism a Gateway to Sierra Leone Tourism
AllAfrica.com, Washington 
Daniel Saffa, speaking at a symposium about tourism as a response to challenges of climate change and the environment, said there were many challenges in the tourism industry, but that he believes there were many opportunities. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); “Conservation and livelihood are the two pillars of ecotourism,” he said, explaining that if the country’s natural assets were to be protected people would be able to have jobs. “We need to identify the threats and the problems so we can start to manage them properly,” he said. He also suggested that people should be educated on Sierra Leone’s natural assets and about how to protect them so that they would benefit people.

Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Keen on Investment Climate
AllAfrica.com, Washington 
He told Concord Times that the country was the easiest place to start a business in West Africa, according to Doing Business 09, an annual analysis of the ease of doing business in 181 economies published by IFC and the World Bank. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); He said the government was reviewing and modifying laws and removing the barriers that hinder Sierra Leone’s investment climate. Recent reforms have been made in the areas of starting a business, dealing with construction permits, registering property and trading across borders. The minister of trade and industry Alimamy Petito Koroma said the government has opened up its policy for people who want to come and do business in the country. “We can now register your business within two days. We are also merging resident and work permits.

China to Promote Cooperation with Sierra Leone
AllAfrica.com, Washington 
Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping Thursday announced in China that his country was ready to promote bilateral ties with Sierra Leone. In a meeting with foreign affairs minister Zainab Bangura, Jinping said China would assist Sierra Leone in the area of trade, education and health, adding that diplomatic ties between the two countries started 37 years ago. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); He said the bilateral trade volume in the first nine months of this year reached 68 million U. dollars, according to official Chinese government statistics.

Sierra Leone: Proliferation of Cinemas Worrisome
AllAfrica.com, Washington 
Ibrahim Ben Kargbo said commercial cinema owners were not handling their business centers responsibly, noting that the country was law abiding, decent and civilized. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); “These cinema and sport centers are not registered and do not pay taxes. There is a complete absence of censorship on films entering Sierra Leone,” he said. Kargbo explained that most students abandon their schools for these cinema and games centers where they would spend the rest of the day without doing much for themselves. “Cinema owners must apply the principle of self-censorship in their businesses,” he said. A primary six pupil of the St Anthony primary school Ahmed Vandi, 12, confessed that he almost failed his third term exams while in primary five because of his wild attachment to games centres. But deputy minister of information and communication Mohamed Koroma said since a union now exists to champion movie businesses in the country, he would give the necessary backup to bring harmony into the trade.