The News Review:

- Sierra Leone : The way forward in 2009
- Graham Greene GRAHAM GREENE A Life in Letters
- Libyan leader extends visit to Sierra Leone
- Patrick Reusse: Vikings’ safety net returned just in time
- Poor Marks High Fees Keep Students Away in Sierra Leone

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.

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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Libyan leader extends visit to Sierra Leone
Middle East nline UK 
DAKAR – Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi has extended his official visit to Sierra Leone for an indefinite period diplomats said in the West African country Friday. n the third day of his visit Gathafi moved from Freetown to the rural town of Rogbere 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of the capital where he will stay for “an indefinite period” before winding up his stay. “Gathafi will stay in a tent which he brought along while he will discuss bilateral discussions with Sierra Leone leaders and possibly with senior officials of the new military regime in Guinea” a diplomat who did not want to be named said. Junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara seized power in Guinea on December 23 after the death of long-serving president Lansana Conte. The move has drawn widespread condemnation with the African Union announcing Monday it had suspended Guinea’s membership.

Patrick Reusse: Vikings’ safety net returned just in time
Minneapolis Star Tribune MN 
only forward" he said. "I’m looking at the Eagles. "The Williams family did some forward looking when it left Sierra Leone. Madieu’s father had come to the Washington D. area and called for his family to join him in 1990.

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.