The News Review:

- Poor Marks High Fees Keep Students Away in Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone: Country bserves Ghadir Day
- Sierra Leone: Tools for Self Reliant Donates to ActionAid Two thers
- Sierra Leone: US$900 Gap May Frustrate 2009-2011 Poverty Fight

Poor Marks High Fees Keep Students Away in Sierra Leone
Voice of America 
Check with your administrator. They say having few graduates is not good for the future of a country still struggling to recover from civil war. But in the town of Makeni despite the many challenges there are also inspiring success stories. Mohamed is a high-school dropout who drives a motorcycle taxi known as an okada to get by. Rebels killed his father during the decade long civil war that began in 1991.
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Sierra Leone: Country bserves Ghadir Day
AllAfrica.com Washington 
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Dr. Nasrallah Malik Iranian ambassador to Sierra Leone speaking at the international institute of Islamic studies on Wilkinson Road in Freetown said it was a wonderful day for all Muslims around the world. “It is a day of salvation that was first put in practice by the holy prophet Mohammed (SAWA) while returning to Medina from his farewell Hajj pilgrimage. He suddenly stopped beside a pond (Ghadir in Arabic) which means in the place called Khum by the emissary of God Angel Gabriel who brought the above verse” Malik said.

Sierra Leone: Tools for Self Reliant Donates to ActionAid Two thers
AllAfrica.com Washington 
The partner organizations include ActionAid International Sierra Leone Youth in Action Sierra Leone and Independent Youth Forum. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Marie Deen-Nyarkoh ActionAid’s partnership and fund raising coordinator told Concord Times that tools for self reliant is a charity working with artisan groups in deprived communities. She said the charity was provided so that local partners will identify the vulnerable groups and communities that are in dire need of help. Deen-Nyarkoh said the relationship between ActionAid and Tools for self Reliant started in January 2008. “It was through interfacing between the two organizations that motivated Tools for self Reliant to donate the tools.

Sierra Leone: US$900 Gap May Frustrate 2009-2011 Poverty Fight
AllAfrica.com Washington 
2 billion from donor partners with a huge gap of $900 million remaining to implement a $2. 1 billion poverty-reduction strategy during the 2009-2011 medium-term expenditure framework. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Foreign affairs minister Zainab Hawa Bangura was addressing the semi-annual review of Sierra Leone peacebuilding framework conference in New York when she expressed fear that the said gap could frustrate government effort to eradicate poverty. She feared that if the situation continued amidst high youth unemployment and low revenue generation peace consolidation might be thwarted.