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Kelvin Doe, 16, from the African country of Sierra Leone, has become the youngest person ever to be invited to MIT's "Visiting Practitioner's Program," after he invented batteries and a generator using materials picked from trash bins in his neighborhood.
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Leidschendam -
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison Wednesday for war crimes he committed by arming and supporting murderous rebels in Sierra Leone in exchange for "blood diamonds."
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Makeni -
Sierra Leonean health professional Alhassan Kanu recently returned home after his studies in the United Kingdom, one of the increasing number of Sierra Leoneans ready and eager to take part in their native country’s developmental process.
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Dr. Godwin Eni left his native Nigeria over 40 years ago to study in Canada. After his studies he diligently worked as a public health specialist in his adopted country while raising a family.
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Wes Strickland is an American businessman and philanthropist living and working in Canada. In this interview he tells me about his humanaitarian work in Sierra Leone (West Africa) and the people working with him.
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New Westminster -
Black History Month started as Negro History Week in the United States. Each year the month of February is dedicated to the teaching and learning of the achievements of black people in the United States and elsewhere, thanks to people like Carter Woodson.
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A couple of days ago I submitted a report on the activities in southern Sierra Leone of Dr. Godwin Eni, a Vancouver based public health specialist. Here are some photos of Dr. Eni doing presentations.
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Nigerian-born Vancouver resident Dr. Godwin Eni is in Sierra Leone, West Africa, as a health consultant. This is his first visit and stay in that country where he arrived last December to help rehabilitate the health care system.
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The Winter Solstice, or the day that Old Man Winter is supposed to officially arrive, is on Tuesday, December 21st, at 11:38 pm Coordinated Universal Time (UCT), or in the Eastern Time Zone at 6:38 pm.
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France’s reputation for influence-peddling and widespread corruption in Africa is nobody’s secret, but Nicolas Sarkozy's reactions to the current electoral deadlock in the Ivory Coast indicate that France's shadowy African era may be coming to an end.
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Lynn Morris, a former reporter from the Bournemouth Echo, has returned home after a 28,000 mile expedition across the Atlantic. The journey started on September 1 last year and came to an end this month.
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Freetown -
Most people love their hometown. But what if you lived in a regularly flooded slum? Residents of a poor area of Freetown, Sierra Leone suffer regular floods, and climate change is exacerbating their problems.
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Drug trafficking gangs in Latin America are buying cheap passenger and cargo airplanes to bring their illegal cargo to Africa as a “technical stop” required before transfer into Europe.
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“Five-Star Brass,” a member of the U.S. Naval Forces Europe Band, visited Sierra Leone in West Africa, from October 9-14
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A very significant event happened recently in New York and that was the lifting of an arms embargo and other sanctions imposed onthe tiny West African state of Sierra Leone in 1998 at the height of that country’s brutal civil war.
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A fact-finding mission working under the auspices of the United Nations Human Rights Council released its advance unedited report into Israel's raid on the Gaza Aid Flotilla, which resulted in the deaths of nine men on May 31, 2010.
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Freetown -
The Lebanese community in Sierra Leone usually try very hard to stay out of the news headlines but an old citizen citizenship law has recently forced one of them to speak out:
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Freetown -
23 prominent and not so prominent politicians in the country of Sierra Leone in West Africa are vying for the leadership position of the Sierra Leone People's Party, the SLPP in preparation for the 2012 elections.
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It’s not everyday that one gets to interview Professor Eustace Palmer, one of Africa’s intellectual heavyweights, academic giants and distinguished son of Sierra Leone, a small country in the west of Africa.
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The media has given Australian politicians a nice rest for this election. No hard questions, no real issues, just recycle the PR pitch on both sides. A lost, insecure budgerigar could have given them a harder time. Some democracy.
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