The News Review:

- Africell to expand network backbone in Sierra Leone Gambia
- Former Liberian President’s Lawyers Ask for Acquittal
- Cape Lambert starts air-core drilling at Sierra Leone iron-ore project
- Sierra Leone: Director – Sports Must Be a Way of Life
- Sierra Leone: Republicans Coach Dams Players’ Maturity
- In Sierra Leone Zain’s 100-Units Thriller
- Assets Declaration in Sierra Leone: A Professional And Private …

Africell to expand network backbone in Sierra Leone Gambia
TeleGeography
The deployment of 90 links of Eclipse high-capacity radios which are optimised for networks with flexible high-bandwidth capabilities and native gigabit Ethernet interfaces began in December as part of a contract valued at USD1. The links will extend network reach into remote areas across the two countries as well as increase network reliability. The vendor will also supply its ProVision Element Management System which was developed for managing microwave radio networks and delivers advanced features for monitoring and controlling time-division multiplexing and Ethernet traffic.

Former Liberian President’s Lawyers Ask for Acquittal
Voice of America
“And so you have a witness coming before your honors and saying that in 1998 Charles Taylor directed Foday Sankoh to go to the Ivory Coast. But Foday Sankoh was in prison. “Anyah says there is no doubt that terrible crimes took place in Sierra Leone but he says prosecutors have not shown any evidence linking Mr. Taylor to the planning instigation execution or aiding and abetting of those crimes. The prosecution’s 11-count indictment alleges the former Liberian rebel led the Revolutionary United Front across the border and acted as their effective leader for much of Sierra Leone’s 10-year civil war. In his opening statement in June of 2007 chief prosecutor Stephen Rapp said Mr. Taylor was part of a joint criminal enterprise to control Sierra Leone’s diamond wealth and topple the government in Freetown.

Cape Lambert starts air-core drilling at Sierra Leone iron-ore project
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
The Marampa project has reduced barriers to entry compared to a greenfields project through its connection by an 84-km railway to an existing deep-water port stockpiling and ship loading facility located at Pepel to the southwest Cape Lambert stated. Pursuant to its investment Cape Lambert has a right of access to the rail and port infrastructure which was currently leased from the government of Sierra Leone by African Minerals. The Marampa Project is located 150 km northeast of Freetown Sierra Leone and comprises a 319 km2 granted exploration licence. Edited by: Mariaan Webb Topics in this article City Country Currency Medical Treatment Freetown Johannesburg Australia Sierra Leone USD Retreatment Natural Feature Person Sierra Leone Cape Lambert Lambert Iron re.

Sierra Leone: Director – Sports Must Be a Way of Life
AllAfrica.com
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Kabia who was pleased with the intervention of Africell mobile phone Company in sponsoring the Sierra Leone Volleyball Association for five years said sports must be part and parcel of those in it. The director citing example of other successful sporting nations like Ethiopia Kenya Cameroon and Gambia said if Sierra Leonean athletes can commit themselves to their various disciplines the country would start benefiting from their laurels. Relevant LinksWest AfricaSierra LeoneSportLike always Kabia stressed the need for the various sporting disciplines in the country to grow adding that his office would only work with any sporting discipline that is committed to raising its standard. “There is no country in this world where a government has fully sponsored a particular sport and that sport turns out to be successful” Kabia said adding that as the mobile companies are making communication a way of life athletes must also make sports a way of life.

Sierra Leone: Republicans Coach Dams Players’ Maturity
AllAfrica.com
GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_Inset” );Marcel who would turn 20 in the summer saw his dream move to the Major League Soccer (MLS) club DC United halt after the club was hit with recession (Global Crisis) which forced all the MLS clubs to change their roster to 24 players instead of 28 players. The player’s move to Sweden was appreciated by the club assistant sports manager Michael Kallback who described the former FC Kallon man as a stable Central back noting that he’s the right replacement for Mate Dujilo who was transferred to IFK Mariehamn. Renowned player agent Patrick Mork who has scouted some Africa biggest and finest talents now presently in Europe likes of Michael Essien (Chelsea) Ali Sulley Muntari (Inter Milan) Asamoah Gyan (AS NANCY) John Painstill (Fulham) Kwado Asamoah (Udinesse) and Nigerian forward Jude Ighalo (Udiness) was impressed with the player. He compared the tall defender style of play with that of Real Madrid and Portugal star Pepe “he is not huge but with good resemblance” Mork said.

In Sierra Leone Zain’s 100-Units Thriller
Awareness Times
A random survey of users of Zain network by this presshouse has revealed that the Bonanza which enables Zain customers to talk for unlimited periods to other Zain customers between the hours of 7am-7pm is one of the best promotions to ever be launched by a phone company in Sierra Leone. ne of Sierra Leone’s most prominent journalists is Umaru Fofana President of the local Journalists Association and the BBC’s Correspondent in country. He confirmed to this newspaper thus: “Zain’s unlimited service has greatly enhanced my work as a journalist and saved me extra cash.

Assets Declaration in Sierra Leone: A Professional And Private …
Standard Times Press
So the question of giving out personal information is to demonstrate to your principal (public) that there is nothing to hide and nothing to fear. Also in Sierra Leone the ratio of senior to junior public servant is 1: 3. So if the declarations were limited to only Politicians and senior public officers then greater proportion would be left out. People who propose this idea mostly consider only employment income which to them is not sufficient to acquire property such as house land and other fixed assets or that these people do not have access to or control state funds. In fact in many organization it is the junior staff that have access to sensitive information that can be sold for money; are in charge of revenue collection that can be tampered with; procurement authority that can be abused.
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