The News Review:

- Liberia Asking for Help to Stop Caterpillar Swarms
- Pair set to sail ’slave triangle’
- Can S Leone flush away corruption?
- The Scandal of the Presidential In-Laws in Sierra Leone
- In Sierra Leone Union Calls for Review of Tax

Liberia Asking for Help to Stop Caterpillar Swarms
Voice of America 
“We don’t understand the problem fully and that is why we want to get our people out as quickly as possible. “Hammond and a team of insect consultants will inspect crop damage and polluted water sources in the border areas this weekend. That survey will eventually extend into Sierra Leone and Guinea to prevent what Hammond says could be a regional catastrophe. The areas affected are some of Liberia’s richest agricultural zones where much of the nation’s cassava plantains bananas and potatoes are grown. Environmentalist Ben Donnie says the infestation is sure to worsen Liberia’s already tenuous supply of food. “People who are producing all of this sugar cane from which people brew cane juice that market may come down” he said. “All the beans and the peanuts.
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Pair set to sail ’slave triangle’
BBC News UK 
The aim of the voyage is to bring about reconciliation and an awareness of the plight of today’s economic migrants. The men hope to set sail in the summer in their renovated yacht “Same Boat”. Slave legacyMr Scott who is originally from Sierra Leone said: “The thing for me is the legacy of the slave trade. “To actually celebrate the abolition of the trade in 2007 was the beginning of a redemption of the legacy but it’s still going on. “I want to use that personally to see what I can do myself. Mr Hubbard said: “We’re going to do the voyage in stages.

Can S Leone flush away corruption?
BBC News UK 
It all began in late 2007 when I travelled to Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone for the inauguration of the then-recently elected president Ernest Bai Koroma. I had obtained a confidential report commissioned by the incoming government into official corruption. President Koroma had come to power on a strong anti-corruption ticket and the report was one of his first initiatives. I reported on the revelations in the (until-then) confidential study and quizzed President Koroma about his promises. During that same trip in late 2007 I went to the top floor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building to interview the newly-appointed Foreign Minister Zainab Bangura.

The Scandal of the Presidential In-Laws in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times Sierra Leone 
” Its characters are of Presidential First Family status; only this time they aren’t from “All President’s Men. It combines ego elitism power and culture; play out by this privileged Liberian family who is by any estimation living well above the misery and hellish life in West Africa’s darkest country behind Sierra Leone and Mali. Interestingly one of the authors in this comedy drama hails from Sierra Leone where she is the In-Law of President Ernest Koroma. Coincidence? Maybe. It’s a true Liberian story of a President and the In-laws. The story about the $600000 wired to an account in Freetown Sierra Leone broke the weekend of The Dunn Report was already an official melodramatic with the actors offering dissimilar denials and explanations. But by late this week it took a metastasizing legal turn classically elevating itself to a full fledge soup opera.

In Sierra Leone Union Calls for Review of Tax
Awareness Times Sierra Leone 
This was disclosed to the Awareness Times newspaper by the Union’s General Secretary Jennings A. Wright in an exclusive interview on Thursday January 22 2009. He explained that his Union has succeeded through the Sierra Leone Labour Congress to reduce the personal tax threshold paid by workers from Le125 000 to Le.