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- For Sierra Leone diamond mine kids school is worth a gem
- Liberia & Sierra Leone Take Border Precautions as…:Coup in Guinea
- Starting up: New Boise-based charity targets ‘starting up’ for …
- Education and the Future of ur Beloved Sierra Leone

For Sierra Leone diamond mine kids school is worth a gem
AFP 
Some children as young as 10 walk several kilometres a day to attend school and work in dilapidated mining pits under scorching heat lured by money from mine owners who keep the gems. “We provide the money and get these boys to work for their living. Is it not a fair deal?” said the Senegalese owner of one mine. Government figures put the number of under-age miners at over 600 but experts here say the real number could be three times higher.

Liberia & Sierra Leone Take Border Precautions as…:Coup in Guinea
Awareness Times Sierra Leone 
Whilst Prime Minister Souare was denying a coup had successfully taken place another senior civilian official Parliamentary Speaker Aboubacar Sompare who under the constitution should replace Conte confirmed to pressmen that “There is indeed an attempted coup d’?t. The Speaker urged “loyal” soldiers to oppose the insurrection by saying “This is a setback for our country and I hope that it won’t be accepted since it’s a minority of soldiers and officers who have taken this action. Here in Sierra Leone our sources inform that President Ernest Koroma immediately summoned his top security chiefs and Cabinet to discuss the issue whilst Information Minister I. Kargbo told pressmen that “What has always been a problem for us is that transitions in Guinea are never never smooth and therefore for us we are going to watch the Guinean situation closely. ” Kargbo also informed that President Koroma “summoned” the Guinean ambassador to State House for discussions. Sierra Leone security sources told newsmen that “surveillance at the country’s border with Guinea has been stepped up with both military and police as well as UN officials monitoring both vehicular and commuter traffic entering Sierra Leone” whilst top Liberian security sources confirmed to this medium that “we are not taking any chances with our borders and we are monitoring the situation very very closely.

Starting up: New Boise-based charity targets ‘starting up’ for …
IdahoStatesman.com ID 
Each time the camera flash fired they cheered more loudly and edged closer to the camera. By the third picture the cheers were deafening. ur group Village Hope Inc. a public charity based in Boise and started this past January went to Sierra Leone to work on “social entrepreneurship” – helping people in poor communities achieve sustainable improvements in health education and economic security. Sierra Leone is one of the poorest countries in the world but is rich in natural resources including good soils and more than 9 feet of rain per year. After a terrible 10-year civil war that ended in 2002 it now has a new government praised for both honesty and competence and respectable economic growth of 6-7 percent a year. The problems in Sierra Leone however are difficult for many of us to appreciate.
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Education and the Future of ur Beloved Sierra Leone
Standard Times Press Sierra Leone 
There is a very close association between the realized benefits from a country’s wealth and the quality of its people. In fact the greatest asset of any country is its people and the value of that asset is determined to a large extent by the skill and educational levels of the people. The current state of education in Sierra Leone is so dismal that the nation is not in any significant way realizing the inherent positive social benefits that education traditionally bestows upon a society. Successive government administrations have consistently failed to accord to education the importance and priority it deserves. Taking their cues perhaps from the government both parents and students no longer treat education as a top priority in their lives. This attitude has systematically made Sierra Leone a perpetual backwater of the world where high culture civilized norms of behavior personal responsibility self-pride and high moral and ethical standards have all given way to uncouthness irresponsibility and the wildest forms of behavior fit only for the jungle. nly walk on the main street in any town or city in Sierra Leone or seek the services of a public official and the deplorable state of affairs in the country will become very apparent.