The News Review:

- Sierra Leone: Yumkella Gets Second Term As Unido Boss
- Anadarko eyes Sierra Leone Mozambique wells
- Sierra Leone: Date Set for Taylor’s Defence
- Sierra Leone: Scf to Rescue Salone Education
- Sierra Leone: Pharmacy Board Makes Anti-Malaria More Accessible
- Gloom in diamond trade hits Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone: Yumkella Gets Second Term As Unido Boss
AllAfrica.com
Yumkella was Wednesday recommended for a second term in office as the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development rganization (UNID). GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );The recommendation was made during the thirty-sixth session of UNID’s Industrial Development Board which comprises 53 countries out of the 173 Member States. The Board one of three policy making organs reviews the implementation of the rganization’s work programme and the budget and makes recommendations to the General Conference on policy matters including the appointment of the Director-General. Yumkella the first Director-General from Sub-Saharan Africa will be nominated for confirmation by the rganization’s General Conference at its thirteenth session scheduled to take place in Vienna in December.

Anadarko eyes Sierra Leone Mozambique wells
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The site is 12 miles north of the Marco Polo platform. Anadarko will drill a sidetrack appraisal well within a year. Venus and South Grand Lahou have seismic signatures and characteristics similar to giant Jubilee field off Ghana Anadarko noted. In the Gulf of Mexico Anadarko is drilling the Vito Miocene prospect on Mississippi Canyon Block 984 where it is operator with 20% interest with results due within weeks. Two exploratory wells were unsuccessful: the Turtle Lake Lower Tertiary prospect in the gulf at 20% interest and the Gouda presalt prospect off Brazil at 30%.
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Sierra Leone: Date Set for Taylor’s Defence
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GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );Mr. Taylor’s lawyers will make their opening arguments on that day in The Hague where the Court is based and the preparatory hearing is slated for 6 July. In 2006 the Security Council authorized the trial to be held in the Netherlands instead of its usual venue in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown citing security reasons. The Prosecution rested its case against Mr.

Sierra Leone: Scf to Rescue Salone Education
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GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );Founder and Chief Executive of SCF Joshua Kamanda told Concord Times that the Foundation’s goal is to help increase the pass rate of students writing the BECE and WASSCE examinations in subjects like English Language General and Further Mathematics. According to Kamanda standards in education are falling in a country once considered as the Athens of West Africa citing latest statistics in the 2008 WASSCE results which indicate that only 3. 8% of students secured passes in General Maths and English Language respectively.

Sierra Leone: Pharmacy Board Makes Anti-Malaria More Accessible
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GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetA” );In collaboration with the Malaria Control Programme in the country the PBSL has embarked on a nation-wide sensitization of patent medicine sellers on the sales of anti malaria therapeutic drugs dosages and referral of acute cases to medical professionals in a bid to ensure that more lives are saved the malaria malaise deemed to be No 1 killer in the country. n Wednesday 24th June the two sister institutions of Pharmacy Board and Malaria Control concluded the nation-wide training programme when they summoned over 100 patent drug sellers in the Western Area at the Atlantic Hall at the National Stadium Hostel to educate them on ramifications of the malaria ailment on the lives and health of the citizen and the appendage dangers in administering the wrong drugs prescription and consumption. GA_googleFillSlot( “AllAfrica_Story_InsetB” );Head of the Narcotic Section at the Pharmacy Board Aiah Swarray who chaired the programme expressed the importance of the training session on anti-malaria saying that “.

Gloom in diamond trade hits Sierra Leone
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However even as the country is struggling to come to terms with the economic slump the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved $18. 8 million in funds under its Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility arrangement with the country. The total disbursement of funds since the arrangement began in May 2006 has been about $50 million of the almost $80 million approved through 2010. The noticeable drop in diamond demand Sierra Leone’s main export commodity as well as the decline in bauxite prices have severely compressed export proceeds and reduced government revenues.