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07/17/11 WATERLOO, Sierra Leone -- The paramedic's eyes were bloodshot, his features drawn. Pregnant women jammed into the darkened concrete bunker, just as they had yesterday and would tomorrow. The increase in patients had been fivefold, or tenfold. The exhausted paramedic had lost count in a blur of uninterrupted examinations and deliveries.
06/18/11 Three years ago, Othniella "O.T." Harding, a refugee from Sierra Leone in West Africa, was
06/10/11 The BBC's medical correspondent, Fergus Walsh, has been to Sierra Leone to see a vaccination programme against pneumonia.
06/10/11 TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - June 10, 2011) - AXMIN Inc. (TSX VENTURE:AXM) ("AXMIN" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that subsequent to its press release of March 1, 2011 regarding the spin-off of the Company's Sierra Leone assets, which include the Komahun Gold Project, the Company has entered into an amalgamation agreement dated June 9, 2011 (the "Definitive Agreement"). Highlights ...
06/10/11 FREETOWN (Reuters) - Alhaji Bangura plies his trade on Siaka Stevens street in the heart of Sierra Leone's capital, a wad of "leone" banknotes in hand.
06/10/11 Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars play an expansive and uplifting blend of reggae, roots and Afro-pop.
06/09/11 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations on Thursday announced the re-election of Justice Jon Kamanda as the President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL).
05/26/11 Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi trained and funded men - like Charles Taylor - whose reigns of terror in Liberia and Sierra Leone led to the death of hundreds of thousands of West Africans.
05/18/11 Cause Celeb talks with fashion model Selita Ebanks about her support for Shine on Sierra Leone, a nonprofit that provides support to schools in the impoverished west African nation.
05/14/11 Sierra Leone was "anxiously" awaiting the verdict in the war crimes trial of Liberian ex-president Charles Taylor, a top official said Saturday, as prosecutors from six international criminal tribunals gathered in the capital Freetown.
05/12/11 The Bite of a Mango, a memoir of a child refugee who comes to Canada to escape war in Sierra Leone, has won the Red Maple Award for non-fiction, one of several children's literature prizes given annually by the Ontario Library Association.
04/25/11 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- After graduating from college in 1967, Ron Drago served for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sierra Leone in Africa. The experience proved good training for his career at United Way.
04/20/11 Earlier this month, I traveled with a bevvy of women in tech (including former Etsy CEO Maria Thomas and Twitter's Jessica Verilli) through the capital cities and upcountry stretches of Liberia (pop. 4M) and Sierra Leone (pop. 6M) , two small countries pressed together along the Western coast of Africa. We were all part of the Women's Technology Delegation, an unusual State Department mission ...
04/20/11 April 16 in Dvorak Hall, Doudna Fine Arts at Eastern Illinois a large audience was entertained by the Sierra Leone Refugee All Stars, who are touring the USA from Africa.
04/18/11 Sierra Leone's capital is draped in the green, white and blue colours of the national flag as it begins a week of celebrations over 50 years of independence.
04/15/11 Afghanistan. Bosnia. Haiti. Liberia. Rwanda. Sierra Leone. Southern Sudan, Timor Leste. Iraq. Although each is different, they have all struggled to move beyond conflict and fragility to secure development. Paul Collier's book The Bottom Billion highlighted their recurrent cycles of dangers. Not one low income country coping with fragility or conflict has yet achieved a single Millennium ...
04/07/11 Last month, at the international tribunal on crimes during the civil war in Sierra Leone, the trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor came to an end.
04/03/11 International, local projects blending nonprofit and profit models World Hope International, a Christian relief and development nonprofit, has been providing charitable aid and small loans to farmers and entrepreneurs in Sierra Leone for years. Now the Northern Virginia group wants to go into business with those it aims to help. It has started a for-profit arm to build an industrial park and ...
03/13/11 During Brad Sackrider's first trip to Africa, he hoped to document the progress of a Sierra Leone water project the Fort Yuma Rotary Club had helped sponsor.
03/01/11 Follow Your Town News On The Courant's Farmington Facebook Page Terese Maineri de Velasquez volunteered for a nonprofit organization in Guatemala from 2003 to 2005. Maureen Shanley made slideshows and videos in Colombia from 1977 to 1979. Louise Cox taught elementary school in Sierra Leone from 1967 to 1969.
02/26/11 Washington (UPI) Feb 25, 2011 In the late 1970s, Egyptian Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali couldn't figure out why African summit meetings unanimously voted against Egypt's peace treaty with Israel. So he decided to sprinkle his delegation with intelligence gumshoes for the next summit in Sierra Leone in 1980. Their mission: Find out what kind of chicanery was going on behind the scenes ... | 
