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Sierra Leone, US miner reach out-of-court settlement Thursday May 13 2021 Iron ore processing. The Sierra Leone Government and US owned firm, SL Mining, have announced an out-of-court settlement over a dispute triggered by the cancellation of the company's mining licence. PHOTO | FILE | NMG Advertisement After nearly two years of legal battle, the Sierra Leone Government and a US owned firm, SL Mining, have announced an out-of-court settlement over a dispute triggered by the cancellation of the company's mining licence. The government in 2019 accused the miner of violating its licence agreeme...

The East African Friday April 02 2021 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The US government has announced the partial lifting of visa sanctions imposed on Sierra Leone. PHOTO | AFP Advertisement The US government has announced the partial lifting of visa sanctions imposed on Sierra Leone over differences in the handling of deportees. The US mission in Freetown said Secretary of State Antony Blinken ordered the move in recognition of the government’s increased assistance in facilitating the timely return home of its nationals who are subject to final orders of removal from the United State...

President Bio gets first jab as Sierra Leone rolls out Covid-19 vaccination Thursday March 18 2021 President Julius Maada Bio gets a Covid-19 jab as Sierra Leone rolls out its Covid-19 vaccination on March 15, 2021. PHOTO | COURTESY | STATE HOUSE COMMUNICATIONS UNIT Advertisement President Julius Maada Bio became the first person to be vaccinated in Sierra Leone as the country rolled out its Covid-19 vaccination programme on Monday. President Bio was inoculated at a special ceremony at State House in Freetown, alongside the country’s Vice President, Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, and other top g...

The East African Thursday March 11 2021 Inmates at a prison in Sierra Leone. Prison authorities in the country have imposed a ban on a local watchdog group over a report on a deadly prison riot which occurred last year. PHOTO | FILE | AFP Summary Last year's riot at the main maximum security prison, the Freetown Correctional Centre, better known by its original name as Pandemba Road Prison, has been described as the deadliest in the history of prison unrest in the country. Advertisement Prison authorities in Sierra Leone have imposed a ban on a local watchdog group over a report on a deadly p...

The East African Monday February 15 2021 People wash their hands next to an Ebola information and sanitation station in Monrovia, Liberia, on September 30, 2014. PHOTO | AFP Summary The development means that Ebola has returned to West Africa four years after the world’s largest outbreak of the haemorrhagic viral disease ended there. The 2014-2016 West African epidemic also began in Guinea, and then spread to its neighbours Liberia and Sierra Leone, infecting about 30,000 people and claiming more than 11,000 lives. Advertisement Guinea has announced an outbreak of the deadly Ebola epidemic ...