The News Review:

- Sierra Leone: EU Food Facility to Boost Smallholder Farmers …
- In Sierra Leone UBA Celebrates African Day
- Sierra Leone: Who Does the ffice of Diaspora Affairs Represent?
- Sierra Leone: Fullahs to Invite APC Minister Former Chief Justice …
- Sierra Leone: ‘Revenge is for the Ignorant’
- Sierra Leone: ‘BBC’s Impact in Salone is Substantial’
- Sierra Leone: Tracking Down the Remaining Speakers

Sierra Leone: EU Food Facility to Boost Smallholder Farmers …
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4 million donation from the European Union to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );“This generous donation from the European Union will enable WFP to assist farmers in Bonthe Pujehun Bo Moyamba Port Loko Tonkolili Kenema Kono and Kailahun districts to rehabilitate their swamps for intensive rice cultivation and coffee and cocoa plantations for cash crop cultivation” said WFP Representative Christa Räder. “I am confident that this will help boost the production and income of smallholder farmers who have not been able to benefit from the rising food prices as their production has been limited and they have in fact been dependant on food purchases during large periods of the year” she added. The European Union donation will be used to provide food assistance to 155000 people belonging to 31000 smallholder farm families in return for their work to rehabilitate 5300 hectares of inland valley swamps 6000 hectares of smallholder plantations and 500 kilometres of feeder roads that will help them take their produce to markets.
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In Sierra Leone UBA Celebrates African Day
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She further disclosed that the Africa Day has been commemorated since the establishment of the rganization of Africa Unity (AU) now known as the Africa Unity (AU). Madam Manja Kargbo-Abdulia noted that UBA has been in existence for over 50 years pointing out that the bank always prioritizedAfrica in its corporate social responsibilities. She said it was in line with UBA’s development initiative around the world and Africa in particular that the bank has always deemed it fit to observe the Day. She further maintained that UBA is operating in 19 countries in Africa and other continents.

Sierra Leone: Who Does the ffice of Diaspora Affairs Represent?
AllAfrica.com
And thus the political leadership sees a distortion of its Diaspora through the prism of an “L’etat c’est moi” Director. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetB” );Earlier this year I met the Director in informal circumstances and asked him what his office does. His response was that the office was created to facilitate Diaspora Sierra Leoneans wanting to do business in Sierra Leone. Hang on a minute said I that is not purely a Diaspora office function. What about the indigenous entrepreneur does he not deserve facilitation? Why not just reduce the administrative barriers to trade and business and have an annex at the Ministry of trade and industry? Having been at his position for about a year I figured he must know something I don’t so I asked him to name one diasporan whose business his office had helped. The chatter in the room stopped the music fell silent and even the tide went out in a collective held breath of anticipation. I nearly asphyxiated waiting for the answer.

Sierra Leone: Fullahs to Invite APC Minister Former Chief Justice …
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Fullahs are also in most parts of Africa and most of them have migrated to other parts of the world. In the United States of America for example the Fullahs in the Washington Metropolitan Area and those in Atlanta-Georgia have a vibrant Fullah Progressive Union (FPU). GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );Now those in other parts of Europe have formed an organization called Tabital Pulaaku International (TPI). The organization is planning a two-day festival running from 26 -27th June 2009 in Belgium which is expected to attract participants from Africa and across the world.

Sierra Leone: ‘Revenge is for the Ignorant’
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She lived in the safety and kindly environment of a society that believed in the communal parenting of any child and the sanctity of respect. All the children worked on the land with their families playing with each other in the quiet tropical evenings. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );But one day her world was blown apart by the civil war that gripped the country. Rebels came into her village.

Sierra Leone: ‘BBC’s Impact in Salone is Substantial’
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“BBC’s impact in Sierra Leone and Nigeria is substantial. We have a high level of audience loyalty and the feedback we are getting is amazing” says the media guru. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );During the six-day tour he would meet with political and spiritual leaders journalists business partners and the BBC audiences from the two West African countries. In Sierra Leone Horrocks would visit the amputee camp in Freetown hold meetings with the country’s vice president Samuel Sam-Sumana and the leader of the opposition John ponjo Benjamin. n Tuesday 26 May at a special “town-hall” meeting at the British Council in Freetown Horrocks would speak with an invited audience of around 300 to discuss the BBC’s role and place in the region’s media landscape.

Sierra Leone: Tracking Down the Remaining Speakers
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Some researchers consider about 300 of those endangered because they are spoken by fewer than 10-thousand people. A few are on the verge of extinction and researchers are rushing to document them. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );VA’s Bart Childs recently accompanied a small group of researchers which was in Sierra Leone to document two languages on the verge of disappearing: Kim and Bom. The team included research assistant Hanah Sarvasy Ali Turay from University of Njala master facilitator Curtis Peku and in the lead professor Tucker Childs of Portland State University. Tucker is Bart Child’s brother. Getting to their destination in western Sierra Leone took quite a bit of planning and perseverance. From the capital Freetown they drove to the market town of Bundapea where they boarded a riverboat for a six hour trip to the village of Tei.