The News Review:

- Sierra Leone and Liberia Create Vast Transboundary Peace Park
- Sierra Leone Appoints Trade Commissioner in London
- YFC/ENCISS ends Workshop on Disability Rights in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone and Liberia Create Vast Transboundary Peace Park
Environment News Service
The transboundary park will protect about 2000 square kilometers (772 square miles) one of the largest remaining stretches of intact rainforest in the Upper Guinea area of West Africa. The Peace Park welcome center will be built in Leilahun in the Kenema District in the Eastern Province of Sierra Leone which borders Liberia to the south. Residents of Kenema District government officials of both countries and international partners gathered in the forest for the announcement of the new park. President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone and President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia said the park will stand as a memorial to the long years of conflict in both Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone Appoints Trade Commissioner in London
Standard Times Press
Had A Long Business Association With Sierra Leone The Government of Sierra Leone has appointed Mr Robert Blick LL. – as the country’s Trade Commissioner in London as part of a major drive by the APC administration to increase foreign direct investment in the country as well as strengthen trade between Sierra Leone and the rest of the world.

YFC/ENCISS ends Workshop on Disability Rights in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times
The main thrust of the workshop was to raise awareness on the rights and responsibilities of people with disabilities as well as highlighting the benefits they stand to derive when they are fully integrated into mainstream development programmes. Participants at the workshop also discussed issues bordering on the draft disability legislation in Sierra Leone with a view to creating better understanding of its content to persons with disabilities and to make further recommendations where necessary. In his welcome address a member of YFC-SL Alicious M. Kamara informed that the organization was established in 1930 as an interdenominational organization geared towards addressing the physical mental emotional and spiritual well being of young people.
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