The News Review:

- Sierra Leone’s First Lady Takes n Health Care
- Presidential Pardon Sought For Women n Death Row In Sierra Leone
- YMCA shows support for Sierra Leone
- Max/Fam Kids’ Tennis Championship Ends in Sierra Leone
- For African first ladies health issues are a chance to remake …
- Sierra Leone at 48: A Historical Political and Cultural Assessment
- Putney teenager raises £3K for Sierra Leone aid fund

Sierra Leone’s First Lady Takes n Health Care
NPR
Sierra Leone’s first lady Sia Koroma along with 13 other African first ladies are meeting in Los Angeles to talk about health issues. Koroma talks with Renee Montagne about Sierra Leone which the United Nations says has the worst mortality rate in the world.

Presidential Pardon Sought For Women n Death Row In Sierra Leone
Standard Times Press
Behind the prison walls these women’s struggles remain largely unknown. After years of torturous waiting a Presidential pardon is now perhaps their only hope. ADVCAID therefore appeals to President Koroma to grant these women a pardon to remedy the injustice of the mandatory death penalty which operates in a severely under-resourced legal system in a society recovering from years of conflict. Until recently Mankaprie alone occupied the cell in Pademba reserved for condemned female prisoners.

YMCA shows support for Sierra Leone
Innisfil Scope
Christian Kamara has dedicated the last few years of his life to improving living conditions in Sierra Leone. As the General Secretary of the Sierra Leone YMCA Kamara has helped provide educational and health programs to thousands of residents in the West African nation. “We’re still moving towards a democratic government” he said speaking at the Innisfil YMCA last week. “We’re trying to help people understand what they should be looking for. ” The YMCA of Simcoe- Muskoka has partnered with the Sierra Leone branch since 2005.
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Max/Fam Kids’ Tennis Championship Ends in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times
Jalloh with one of the kids According to the organizer Samuel P. He maintained that the just concluded kids’ championship aimed at attracting more children into the game and by so doing build a strong base through which tennis would be promoted in the country. In his statement the President of the Sierra Leone Tennis Association Mr.

For African first ladies health issues are a chance to remake …
Los Angeles Times
first ladies highlight personal causes while in the White House it is less familiar territory for their African counterparts who are better known for lavish shopping sprees. “Most of the first ladies I have met are older women” said Sia Nyama Koroma whose insurance-executive husband was elected president of Sierra Leone in 2007. “Some of them are quite satisfied to settle into the regal role [and] luxury of being a first lady. Koroma 51 is part of a new generation of educated professionals who want to use their positions to make changes. “As first ladies people listen to us people want to see us the crowd goes with us” Koroma said. And she added with a laugh “we are close to these presidents.

Sierra Leone at 48: A Historical Political and Cultural Assessment
Patriotic Vanguard
April 27 1961 represents a political watershed in the history of Sierra Leone. n that momentous day Sierra Leone regained its independence from Britain. Unlike other countries in Africa whose march to independence was marked by a violent struggle Sierra Leone attained independence peacefully; independence was virtually handed over to us on a silver platter. It was a moment that was greeted with euphoria – the entire country was agog with festivity to herald the dawn of a new era. At Independence on April 27 1961 Sierra Leoneans had hoped for liberty and prosperity.

Putney teenager raises £3K for Sierra Leone aid fund
Wimbledon Guardian
“It was tough but we got there in the end. “The ride took four days of cycling at around 80 miles per day but we did an extra 20 miles getting lost in various places. ? Educaid Sierra Leone provide poor and war affected citizens with free high quality secondary education equipping them to earn their own living. To sponsor Ed and Jonti visit justgiving.