The News Review:

- Sierra Leone begins bioenergy project
- Children and families flee Liberia caterpillar invasion
- RPCV Peggy Murrah carries Sierra Leone flag during Bama Inaugural …
- Sierra Leone: Emergency Wheelbarrows Replace Missing Doctors
- Former child soldier to give talk at Souhegan High
- Sierra Leone: Charcoal Seller Wins Zain Benz
- Global 2000(2010) International Enters Into Strategic Partnership …

Sierra Leone begins bioenergy project
Biofuels International UK 
The project?s sugarcane plantation will take 20000 hectares of land and the ethanol plant will produce more than 1. 2 million litres of ethanol a year. In addition a 30MW power plant will also be in operation. The project?s funding has been approved and construction is expected to begin in June.

Children and families flee Liberia caterpillar invasion
SS Children UK 
It is in the country’s worst plague in 30 years and a ‘national emergency’ that could spread across West Africa said the UN’s Food and Agriculture rganisation (FA). The inch-long critters described as “black creeping and hairy” by villagers were advancing across the north of the already impoverished country contaminating water supplies wrecking food crops and overrunning families homes. Unless contained the situation was “very likely” to escalate into a “regional catastrophe” involving neighbouring Guinea Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast said Winfred Hammond FA Representative in Liberia. “The problem in Liberia is quite alarming” said Hammond. “Sometime last week some caterpillars that were observed on foreign plantations and have moved on to food crops and vegetation as a whole were spreading very fast and was also causing damage not only to crops but contaminating waterways and therefore making it difficult for many villagers and the inhabitants to get access to good drinking water. This is really creating an emergency situation across the country. “Emergency committees have been set up Agence France Presse (AFP) reported but Hammond warned that “the country lacks the financial resources and technical expertise to combat the emergency on its own and will require international assistance.

RPCV Peggy Murrah carries Sierra Leone flag during Bama Inaugural …
Cocorioko Sierra Leone 
It is very difficult to adequately describe the range of emotions and experiences of the day but I’ll try. I started the day by meeting the other marchers at the Pentagon City metro station and we were given security passes and transported by bus to the security clearance tent. I started the day by meeting the other marchers at the Pentagon City metro station and we were given security passes and transported by bus to the security clearance tent. (PHT: Peggy Murrah and David 'neill ).
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Sierra Leone: Emergency Wheelbarrows Replace Missing Doctors
AllAfrica.com Washington 
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Since the health centre – on the outskirts of the capital Freetown – was opened in June 2007 by then Health Minister Abattor Thomas no patients have been treated. At the opening ceremony the minister said solar-powered lights running water and at least one doctor would soon arrive. Months later the then-ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) was defeated in both legislative and presidential elections. With a different health minister in place the clinic remained unopened. “Those promises went out the window” said village leader Mody Conteh. “Now the centre sits there and sticks out like a bandaged thumb. Residents told IRIN the most recent medical intervention in their village was a temporary voluntary clinic operated by visiting Cuban doctors in April 2008 who treated dozens and distributed free antibiotics and anti-worm medication.

Former child soldier to give talk at Souhegan High
Nashua Telegraph NH 
Ishmael Beah is a man with a remarkable life story. His childhood was stolen by a vicious civil war during the 1990s in the west African country of Sierra Leone that forced him to join in the fighting in order to survive. After recovering from his early life as a child soldier he is now an ambassador for UNICEF and a New York Times best-selling author. n Wednesday Beah will come to Souhegan High School to share his experiences with a group of students who may find it hard to believe the tragedy violence and conflict that Beah will surely describe. Every word however is true and every account is to be trusted because this man lived every moment of it. Souhegan faculty and students have been busy preparing for Beah’s long-awaited arrival.

Sierra Leone: Charcoal Seller Wins Zain Benz
AllAfrica.com Washington 
Rita Bailey a resident of Kissy with Zain number 076565286 became the proud winner of the 6th draw which was held at D&S pera in Kono. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Bailey said she has been in the business of charcoal for past two years adding that winning the Benz has made a big different in her life. She said: “I am happy to become a Benz winner. I was not thinking of owning one but now Zain has made this possible.

Global 2000(2010) International Enters Into Strategic Partnership …
Cocorioko Sierra Leone 
Worth (DFW) area and the Republic of Sierra Leonen January 17 2009 Michael Cheves CE and President of Global 2000(2010) International met with Dr. Global 2000(2010) International will foster and implement new working relationships between Texas business partners and the Republic of Sierra Leone to help in its efforts to accomplish the Presidential Energy Initiative. It is crucial for the Presidential Energy Initiative to be fulfilled in order to accomplish the Millennium Development Goals by 2015 as set forth by the United Nations. An Energy Summit that will detail current and future business opportunities will be held in late March 2009 in the DFW area. "As the number-one consumer of electricity in the United States Texas has the knowledge and ability to partner with Sierra Leone to be the hub for West African Commerce" says Mr.