The News Review:

- UN chief says efforts to consolidate peace prosperity in Sierra …
- Sierra Leone orphan’s journey to American ballet
- Sierra Leone police station turns into snakepit
- Sierratel gets US$29M expansion loan from India
- Former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor ‘converts to Judaism’

UN chief says efforts to consolidate peace prosperity in Sierra …
Xinhua
“The outbreak of political violence in March of this year was awake-up call on challenges that require urgent and continued attention” Ban told the UN Peacebuilding Commission’s high-level meeting on Sierra Leone held in the UN headquarters. “It also reminded us of the importance of sustained global support” he added. The governing All People’s Congress (APC) and the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) signed a Joint Communique on April 2 ending violence that threatened to spiral out of control between the two parties in early March. “I commend President Koroma government and opposition leaders and ordinary Sierra Leoneans for rising above differences and overcoming the recent crisis” said Ban adding that the adoption of the agreement “has renewed hope in Sierra Leone’s journey toward peace and prosperity.
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Sierra Leone orphan’s journey to American ballet
USA Today
In March she was among a small elite group to make the final round in the New York finals for the Young America Grand Prix the world’s largest competition for student dancers. The story of Michaela DePrince’s journey from Sierra Leone includes a.

Sierra Leone police station turns into snakepit
AFP
An estimated 400 snakes mostly cobras and vipers have infested the station in the town of Gerihun in Sierra Leone’s southern Bo district. Residents also complain that they are too afraid of the snakes to go there to report crimes. “(The snakes) have been in the.

Sierratel gets US$29M expansion loan from India
InfoWorld
In April Sierratel launched the country’s first CDMA (code division multiple access) technology network with help from Chinese equipment vendor Huawei Technologies through a $16. 6 million preferential loan from the Chinese government. In another telecom-related development Zain Sierra Leone last week joined 18 other countries in Africa and the Middle East in the telco’s ground-breaking borderless ne Network mobile service. The ne Network service will allow subscribers in Sierra Leone to make calls and send text messages to Zain users in other countries at local rates and receive incoming calls and text messages free of charge. Zain’s inability to operate its own gateway has been cited as the major factor that hindered the start of its ne Network service in Sierra Leone. ther African countries which joined at the inception of the service in September 2006. Chris Gabriel Zain’s CE for all of its 15 operations in Africa also has said that plans are under way to introduce the ZAP mobile money transfer system to Sierra Leone.

Former Liberian warlord Charles Taylor ‘converts to Judaism’
Ha'aretz
And he wants to follow the true religion according to him. He wants to know deeply about God. “According to Victoria Taylor her husband discovered Judaism after the being put to trial over his alleged war crimes in Sierra Leone.