The News Review:

- Liberian warlord’s son gets 97 years in US prison
- Sierra Leone: Britain Backs ‘Cocaine’ Fight in Country
- Sierra Leone: Kemoh Sesay for APC Regional Chair
- Sierra Leone: Health Ministry Reacts to Yellow Fever utbreak in Bo
- Sierra Leone: Hon. Justice Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh is Awol’s …

Liberian warlord’s son gets 97 years in US prison
Reuters 
visited upon his victims. This case was made in no small part by the courage of individual victims who had the mettle to come forward and speak the truth about what had been done to them. " Five victims testified during the five-week trial against Taylor whose father once one of Africa’s most feared warlords is on trial before a U. tribunal in The Hague for war crimes during the civil war in Liberia’s neighbor Sierra Leone. The younger Taylor 31 is a U.

Sierra Leone: Britain Backs ‘Cocaine’ Fight in Country
AllAfrica.com Washington 
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );”We will continue to work hard with Sierra Leone to help it develop and combat the threat from drugs smugglers” Lord Mark Malloch-Brown said. The government of Sierra Leone stopped a plane carrying an estimated 700kg of cocaine in July 2008 with a street value of around $200 million. Lord Malloch-Brown is in Sierra Leone to demonstrate Britain’s commitment to the furtherance of democracy peace security and good governance. Its department for international development DfID has in the recent past doled out some £40 million about Le180 billion in bilateral assistance to the country. Commenting on his visit Lord Malloch-Brown said “Sierra Leone faces huge challenges.
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Sierra Leone: Kemoh Sesay for APC Regional Chair
AllAfrica.com Washington 
Fullah said speaker after speaker pledged their Unflinching support to the minister adding that “we were united in our decision. From all indication Kemoh Sesay is the appropriate person for that postion”. Mamusu Marrah an executive member of the party in the Koinadugu district said she was of the opinion that Sesay would help shield off any inroads the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party intends making in the northern province. Relevant LinksWest AfricaSierra LeoneShe said the suspended minister was the most fitted person to galvanise support for the APC in the north adding that the party’s current northern region chairman Hon. Philipson Kamara was too old for the demands of that position. Kamara should now take the back seat and serve as advisers to the party on partinet poltical issues” Marrah noted.

Sierra Leone: Health Ministry Reacts to Yellow Fever utbreak in Bo
AllAfrica.com Washington 
Ade Theophilus Renner a representative of WH said yellow fever was once one of the most feared epidemic diseases in the world. “Mass vaccination campaigns in the mid 20th century succeeded in bringing the disease under control for over 40 years but since the late 1980s this deadly disease has returned putting at risk a new generation in West and Central Africa and threatening to erupt into devastating urban epidemics” he said. The last known yellow fever outbreaks in Sierra Leone were in Kenema district in 1995 and Tonkolili district in 2003. Ten deaths were reported in 2003. Yellow fever is in 33 countries in Africa and in 11 South American countries. Many countries in West Africa are affected including Sierra Leone Liberia and Guinea.

Sierra Leone: Hon. Justice Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh is Awol’s …
AllAfrica.com Washington 
Again in December 2008 when she finally was unanimously approved by the House of Parliament to be Sierra Leone’s very first ever Female Chief Justice she was hailed throughout Sierra Leone and internationally. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );ur Personality the Honourable Chief Justice of Sierra Leone Her Lady Justice Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh was born in Sierra Leone to two illustrious Fula citizens who were household names themselves in their own right. Chief Justice Tejan Jalloh attained her secondary schooling at the Harford Secondary School for Girls in Moyamba and the St. Edwards Secondary School in King Tom Freetown before she travelled to study at the United States of America’s prestigious Columbia University and later at the School of Advanced Legal Education University of London.