The News Review:

- Graham Greene GRAHAM GREENE A Life in Letters
- S.Leone to probe student’s death in initiation rite
- Sierra Leone : The way forward in 2009
- Chief Hinga Norman – Not So Happy Birthday
- ld Age & Religion in Politics:The Sierra Leone Case
- Poor Marks High Fees Keep Students Away in Sierra Leone

Graham Greene GRAHAM GREENE A Life in Letters
New York Times United States 
” Nevertheless Greene was usually well protected while flirting with extreme peril. Unlike most Londoners he had three homes including an apartment belonging to an illicit lover in which to get his frissons during the blitz. It was as an MI6 agent that he noted the squalor of Sierra Leone; in Malaya he stuck close to the British as they pursued a violent and successful counterinsurgency against local Communists. He assumed that he and his lover would remain unscathed if they ventured to India and he was right. The British Army had been instructed to intervene in the civil war between Hindus and Muslims if the lives of white men and women were at stake. This dereliction of duty in one of Britain’s oldest and most cherished possessions provoked.
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S.Leone to probe student’s death in initiation rite
AFP 
Leone to probe student's death in initiation rite12 hours agoFREETWN (AFP) — Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Koroma on Friday ordered an investigation into the circumstances of the death of a university student following a beach initiation ceremony. The president said that “those involved in the satanic murder” of the student should be charged in court. Mohamed Juana a first-year 23-year-old student of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sierra Leone died on December 24 during a voodoo-type initiation rite that would have made him a member of a secret student society. More than half of all students at Sierra Leone’s university are believed to be members of such societies which are shrouded in secrecy and often have complicated initiation rituals. In his radio and television address Koroma also announced “a ban on cultism in all institutions of learning” saying “it is against the laws of God and the laws of the land”.

Sierra Leone : The way forward in 2009
Cocorioko Sierra Leone 
Juxon-Smith looks at the way forward for Sierra Leone in 2009. Juxon-Smith a successful businessman says that the world economic situation is not good for African countries especially those with donor-driven economies like Sierra Leone. He says that no Sierra Leonean is happy for the country's last place in the UN Human Development Index and then looks at what the country could do this year not only to move from the bottom spot but ameliorate her continiung economic crisis.

Chief Hinga Norman – Not So Happy Birthday
Patriotic Vanguard Sierra Leone 
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain. ” Even so we remember our brother father grandfather uncle friend and patriot extra-ordinary Sam Hinga Norman on this his 69th birthday on the other side of eternity. Samuel Hinga NormanChief Hinga Norman was born in Nguala village Valunia Chiefdom Bo District in the Southern Region of Sierra Leone on 1st January 1940. He graduated from the Mons Royal Military College at Aldershot in the United Kingdom and served as an officer in the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Forces until his retirement in 1972. He was later appointed Regent Chief of Jaiama-Bongor Chiefdom Deputy Minister of Defense and later as Minister of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Sierra Leone. He was also the National Co-coordinator of the Sierra Leone Civil Defence Forces. Chief Norman died in Dakar Senegal on 22 February 2007 from complications of hip replacement surgery.

ld Age & Religion in Politics:The Sierra Leone Case
Awareness Times Sierra Leone 
As for the Chinese you have to be a Quinquagenarian before you can be considered for an important political appointment. Richard Nixon (Tricky Dicky) and Ron Reagan of the USA they were all old men but were good. Coming home to Sierra Leone what will you say about Sir Milton Margai and Siaka Probyn Stevens. Each of them played their own role and it is now left with us to judge them accordingly. Now about the role religion plays in the country. Sierra Leone is between 78-80% Islam. ur Great Great grand father Foday Tarawali introduced Islam to this country in the 1800s by the great scarcis river in a small town called BINLEH.

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.