Sierra Leone

It was the only airline prepared to land in Sierra Leone and was doing most of its business taking people out.

Forna grew up in Sierra Leone, though she was born in Glasgow and spent a good chunk of her life in the UK.

If the British Treasury can be out by a factor of ten, think what the ministry of finance in Sierra Leone is going to be like. (Laughter).

If they were polished in-country, then Sierra Leone might have seen somewhere near the real value of this incredible natural resource.

There is no doubt that the reasons for international investors to consider Sierra Leone as their choice for investment are many.

He made note that the dam will not only bring electricity to the majority of homes but could transform Sierra Leone into an energy exporter.

The Sierra Leone Authorities fully supported the prosecution of their officer and did not ratify his claim to diplomatic immunity.

The commission held public hearings in Sierra Leone's major cities and regional towns, but did not reach remote villages like Dugba-yuma.

I've reached the stage where I feel like I actually live in Sierra Leone. Life in London seems very distant.

She says flights to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea will have to be cut by the end of the month because of lack of money.

But we did not do so in Algeria, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Croatia, Rwanda, the Caucasus, the Kurdish area and many other regions.

The bottom ten countries are all African countries, with Sierra Leone (in West Africa) at the bottom of the list.

Sierra Leone's new president visits neighboring countries of Guinea and Liberia in a goodwill trip to help strengthen relations.

But a further 50, including Niger and Sierra Leone, as detailed in the Lancet paper, do not get enough from the international community.

Major Phil Ashby works in Sierra Leone with the United Nations to help oversee the peace process in this troubled, warring nation.

Earlier this week I visited the people of Sierra Leone, still struggling, but at least able to contemplate a better future.

I speak of a girl in Afghanistan, but I might equally well have mentioned a baby boy or girl in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone, a poor west African country, has no fibre-optic link to the outside world.

Additionally, the youth have demonstrated huge self-discipline by not giving up, despite the destructive impact of the war in Sierra Leone.

So integral was the Libyan leader's involvement that the Special Court for Sierra Leone reportedly considered indicting him.

A cab driver from Sierra Leone said "the sentiment is nice, " but he doubted it would lead to changes for people in Africa.

For a start, Mr Taylor is being tried not for atrocities that occurred in his homeland, Liberia, but in neighbouring Sierra Leone.

In terms of access to medical care, it was fourth from bottom, beating only Sierra Leone, Brazil, and Burma.

Just as its neighbor Sierra Leone, Liberia was known for its blood diamonds during the civil war.

This reporter saw a museum full of the artists drawing, painting and abstract painting, real life people describe the state of Sierra Leone.

Several countries that have been racked by civil wars, including Rwanda, Afghanistan and Sierra Leone, have brought in new company laws.

And unless it is quickly contained, he says, it could grow into a crisis involving Guinea, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast.

Sierra Leone's budget is a tiny $500m a year, but its leaders still enjoy rich pickings.

Turay moved here in 1989 and says China was a part of his life even as a child. . . in Sierra Leone.

African Minerals, which until August 2007 was known as Sierra Leone Diamonds, is an exploration-stage company.

That country was also dragged into Liberia and Sierra Leone's wars as refugees -- and armed fighters -- fled over the border.

Monty Jones, a rice expert from Sierra Leone, was the winner in two thousand four.

As public relations jobs go, selling a positive image of Sierra Leone has to be among the most challenging.

My late husband was former district leaders of the diamond city and an executive member of the Diamond Mining Association in Sierra Leone.

It attends to countries like Burundi or Sierra Leone that do not attract much private interest.

Sierra Leone scored consistently low, but other nations showed divergent rankings across the measures.

Sierra Leone is determined to deepen the existing friendly cooperation between the two countries.

Sierra Leone's district health information system (DHIS) captures data from hundreds of community health centres across the country.

Their adaptability makes the youth central to any level of sustainable business growth in Sierra Leone.

the sierra leone international , formerly of inter milan and regina , has emerged as a target for juventus coach didier deschamps.

Amanda Pease is one of almost forty volunteers serving in rural schools in Sierra Leone.

He is attending the trial as part of a BBC project to provide daily radio reports to audiences in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Similar social protection-related budget support operations have since been implemented in Haiti, Madagascar, Sierra Leone, and Bangladesh.

In Sierra Leone recently, I saw kids playing football everywhere, proudly wearing their Manchester United and Arsenal shirts.

I decided to come to Sierra Leone to try and gain some perspective on life.

Little is known about the fish of Sierra Leone, and we have had a great start already.

It wouldn't solve all the problems, but it would encourage countries like Sierra Leone to take sexual violence more seriously.

Sierra Leone is just 30 kilometers away from the Guinean markets, and that, says businessman Mohamed Bah, means progress for Guinea.

A 28-year-old male refugee from Sierra Leone complained about a darker colour of his left leg with slight itching.

For, despite the progress, Sierra Leone remains, according to most evaluations, one of the poorest places on earth.

Amanda Pease is one of the first Peace Corps volunteers to work in Sierra Leone in over a decade.

He is to be joined later in the day by the presidents of Benin, Cape Verde and Sierra Leone.

These insurgents terrorized rural Sierra Leone in an effort to control the nations diamond mines.

Rapid needs assessments have been completed for Burkina Faso, Burundi, Liberia, Mali, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

On Wednesday, Anadarko announced positive results from the Venus well off the coast of Sierra Leone.

He is now in The Hague facing war crimes charges for his involvement in Sierra Leone's civil war.

Posters proclaim the Sierra Leone police to be "A Force for Good. "

Both Mr. Taylor and attorney Courtenay Griffiths failed to appear before the Special Court for Sierra Leone Wednesday.

In Sierra Leone August is known as the "master rain month" .

This year the State Department added Bangladesh, Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone. It also added Venezuela, Guyana and Ecuador.

There followed long speeches of support for the project and on patriotism for Sierra Leone, and then the celebrations started.

Efforts in Sierra Leone to get more children through primary school have led to crowded high schools.

That money should be enough, African Minerals says, to fund the first phase of production at its Tonkolili mining project in Sierra Leone.

He has allegedly supplied arms to various conflicts elsewhere, including Sierra Leone, earning him the sobriquet, "Merchant of Death" .

Manchester United have never played in Sierra Leone and, given the poverty of the country, are unlikely ever to do so.

But, commissioners made clear they would stop at nothing to clean up society and bring about the behavioral changes Sierra Leone needs.

The movie has received wild acclaim worldwide for its depiction of the ghastly diamond-funded civil war in Sierra Leone.

Liberia and Sierra Leone have been pulled back from the brink of utter chaos in recent years, and both are now at peace.

Many governments have helped bring those accused by the tribunals for Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone and Rwanda to book.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor pleaded not guilty before an international war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone will remain committed to deepening the existing friendly and cooperative relations between the two nations in the future.

In Sierra Leone, Sankoh's Revolutionary United Front soldiers savagely chopped off limbs and raped their way through villages.

The US is calling on Nigeria to hand over Mr Taylor to a United Nations-backed tribunal in Sierra Leone.

But the end of fighting in Sierra Leone has not improved the lives of children working in the mines.

The governments of Burkina Faso and Sierra Leone have started to negotiate with wholesalers to control prices indirectly.

But it has had some successes too: in Angola, Mozambique, Namibia and more recently in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

This week, an international court found former Liberian president Charles Taylor guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone.

Taylor was a warlord in neighbouring Liberia when the civil conflicts began in Sierra Leone.

Wells helped write the university human rights program's new report on child mining in Sierra Leone entitled "Digging in the Dirt. "

Sierra Leone's war crimes tribunal has sentenced three former rebel chiefs to long prison terms for crimes against humanity.

And somewhere like Sierra Leone, fresh out of war - they think it's ripe for trade and investment.

Examples of English- based creoles are Jamaican Creole , Hawaiian Creole and Krio in Sierra Leone, West Africa .

Retired surgeon in England plans concert to raise funds for the rebuilding of schools in Sierra Leone.

In 1991, he joined up with a Sierra Leonean rebel group, the Revolutionary United Front, and oversaw the invasion of Sierra Leone.

To address this challenging, unmet medical need, we started a humanitarian programme in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is located in Western Africa bordering the North Atlantic Ocean between Guinea and Liberia .

He has taken breaks from the royals over the years to cover diplomacy and wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Sierra Leone.

He says Sierra Leone's anti-corruption commission should be more active in investigating illicit involvement in the country's diamond trade.

That could help stabilize a region still recovering from conflict in Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.

Benin, Liberia and Sierra Leone are the latest 3 of the 13[1] highest risk African countries to carry out preventive campaigns.

But the real asset that would guarantee national stability, higher returns and sustainability is the youth of Sierra Leone.

The experience was similar in neighbouring Sierra Leone. Their attitude is probably wise.

"Blood Diamond" , a film about the precious stones that fuelled a civil war in Sierra Leone, picked up several nominations.

AMID much media interest, Naomi Campbell, a model, gave evidence on Thursday August 5th at the special court for Sierra Leone in The Hague.

But he needed money, so the lucrative diamond mines in neighbouring Sierra Leone beckoned.

In Sierra Leone, local schools must be recognized by the Ministry of Education in order to have teacher salaries paid by the government.

16-year old Fredrica says children's rights in her country, Sierra Leone, are being violated.

A similar body for Sierra Leone won the first conviction for sex slavery (and another over the use of child soldiers).

As barley production in Russia slumped, the production of sorghum in Sierra Leone and Ghana surged.

"Oh, blood diamonds, " is the typical response from most outsiders when you mention Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone has one of the highest infant mortality rates and lowest life expectancy in the world.

In some countries all of those things happen at once, like Sierra Leone a few years ago.

Other countries to benefit from the first round of funding include Bangladesh, Haiti, Sierra Leone and Togo.

It was soon joined by cables from Sierra Leone, Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro.

The country's youth provide even better opportunities for investors looking to invest in Sierra Leone.

The group has already started to work with Cambodia, Sierra Leone and Syria.

In a desperately poor country such as Sierra Leone, drug money will quickly gnaw its way through the legislature and bureaucracy.

NaCSA brought in a team of sign-language specialists from Sierra Leone's capital Freetown.

Earlier numbers were estimated purely on the rolls in Africa in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

There is also the fact that Sierra Leone, after its civil war ended seven years ago, continues to enjoy peace and stability.

Sierra Leone is a poor west African country that has English as its official language.

Before the war, Sierra Leone had more than 30 factories or processing plants.

The World Bank is providing $28, 000 to the Bo Sign Language Training Center through the Sierra Leone National Social Action Project (NSAP).

Kosovo, Sierra Leone and Liberia all showed that outsiders can in fact help avert catastrophes.

In a hospital ward in Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, Fatmata Conteh, 26, lay on a bed, having just given.

Two months later I was on a plane to Sierra Leone to spend a month with Tribewanted.

But the youth of Sierra Leone offer even bigger investment opportunities.

They have spread into areas of Lofa County and Gbarpolu County, bordering Guinea and Sierra Leone.

The Cotton Tree is a historic symbol of Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone.

Mr Yang is on a five-country tour of Africa and will also visit Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Algeria and Morocco.

Iceland, ironically, comes top, and Sierra Leone bottom.

Among this year's notable results are Liberia and Sierra Leone, which improved the most.

The likeness of an African warrior appears on Sierra Leone's 5000 leone bank note.

Charles Taylor is on trial for his alleged role in Sierra Leone's decade long civil war.

Sierra Leone (known here as "Salone" ) feels like two countries.

More than 150 years ago, a group of people from the West African country of Sierra Leone answered yes to that question.

In 2000 I returned to Sierra Leone, the country of my childhood.

He then used the funds as collateral for loans to invest in diamonds in Sierra Leone.

A graduate of Illinois State University, Mr. Kelleher served in the Peace Corps in Sierra Leone in the mid-1980s.

The Sierra Leone find "puts us smack in the middle of very hot activity right now" .

Getting involved in student organizations counts, and so does feeding children in Sierra Leone or sweeping floors in the chemistry building.

Although some of the poorest countries did well in 2007 (Sierra Leone, for instance, grew by 11. 6%) the base was low.

The trial is being followed closely in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

THE wanton violence during Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war was exceptionally barbaric.

Ms. Peace teaches science at Saint Joseph's, a high school in eastern Sierra Leone.

Only a decade ago countries such as Sierra Leone and Liberia were bywords for anarchy and bloodshed.

Lianne Kuppens leads UNICEF's child survival and development team in Sierra Leone.

Portuguese explorers had charted the west coast of Africa as far as Sierra Leone.

Do not go to impoverished Sierra Leone, with the most generous annual leave requirement, at 39 days.

And so it happens that when the storyline of the movie starts, he is now plying his trade in Sierra Leone, of all places!

Once that trial finishes, it will be time for the Sierra Leone court to wind up.

THE farmers of Makeni, in central Sierra Leone, signed the contract with their thumbs.

Over the years her UN role has involved visits to camps in countries such as Sierra Leone, Pakistan and Ecuador.

Surveys of Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau waters found that levels of illegal fishing at 29% and 23%.

Once again, that's Sierra Leone. This is again, indicating how numbers relate to space relate to form, maps of the universe.

Regional forces have previously intervened in west Africa to prop up governments under threat, such as those in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Valentine Strasser was ousted as Sierra Leone's leader in 1996 and then showed up as a law student in the University of Warwick in England.

On hearing we were located on a beach in Sierra Leone the call operator said "We have a service centre in Puerto Rico. Is that close? "

They include Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Until they are tackled, Sierra Leone will remain a fragile state at best.

Bunting-Graden, who is a lawyer, has tried to start a business venture in her native country, Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone will remain a fragile state at best.

For example, the average woman in Sierra Leone needs to have more than three children to ensure that just two will survive to adulthood.

Last June, for example, Time magazine published graphic pictures of a naked woman from Sierra Leone dying in childbirth.

of or relating to Sierra Leone or its people.

A basic unit of currency in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone's diamonds to good quality, particles, and have a good octahedral crystal form known to the world.

Peace Corps volunteers left Sierra Leone in nineteen ninety-four because of civil war.

Sierra Leone is a land of honest men and women.

Star of Sierra Leone was in February 1972 in the Young found on Sigma's diamond mines, weight of 968. 9 kt, colorless.

My name is frank williams, 24 years from Sierra Leone .

The government of Sierra Leone has contracted us. . .

Sierra Leone is very close here so that connects Sierra Leone also with trade exchange.

Per capita GDP is 45 times higher in Iceland than in Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone is the country's best.

In Sierra Leone, 1, 033 women die for every 100, 000 live births, one of the world's highest ratesof maternal mortality.

In Sierra Leone it is exactly that.

This is not something we can tackle from the beach here in Sierra Leone, as it is a global problem.

More than 100, 000 people were left dead after Sierra Leone's Civil War, which ended in 2002.

That is the longest sentence handed down by the special court, which was established by the United Nations and the Sierra Leone government.

At that moment Blair had been expounding on his work in Sierra Leone.

Last year, three men fronted a video and poster campaign to try to reduce the spread of HIV in Sierra Leone.

SINGAPORE: World Vision Taiwan's ambassador Wang Lee Hom will be heading to Sierra Leone to take part in World Vision's 30 Hour Famine camp.

I came to Sierra Leone for two reasons.

My conclusion: go to Fiji to swim with fish. Go to Sierra Leone to eat them.

A child born in Japan has a chance of living 43 years longer than a child born in Sierra Leone.

What are you doing in Sierra Leone.

If you have seen the movie Blood Diamond you should know that it is based on Sierra Leone.

I have just been talking to the President of Sierra Leone.

Being ambassador for UNICEF is something I'm very passionate. I went to Sierra Leone last year, which was an amazing experience.

Amanda Pease is one of almost forty volunteers serving in rural schools in Sierra Leone. copyright englishtang

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