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 The Boston Globe
Fashion designer makes a statement in Sierra Leone
| FREETOWN - Women carrying corn on their heads and children selling peanuts stop to stare as a leggy model in a tiny blue dress strikes a pose outside a steel-doored clothes shop in Sierra Leone's ca... (photo: AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
Fashion Market Money Photos Women |
 BBC News
Diary: Sierra Leone slum clinic
| Staff at a clinic in the coastal slum of Kroo Bay, in Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, are keeping a diary of their working lives for the BBC News website. | Here, Adama Gondor, who runs the clinic... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Diary Freetown Health Photos Sierra Leone |
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 News24
Record drug bust: More charged
| Freetown - Three more people will be charged in connection with a massive cocaine haul in Sierra Leone mid-July, assistant inspector-general of police Francis Munu said... (photo: AP Photo)
Africa Cocaine Drug People Photos Sierra Leone |
 BBC News
S Leone on 'ghost teacher' hunt
| Sierra Leone's education minister says he has discovered dozens of non-existent "ghost teachers" invented by officials to embezzle money. | Minkailu Bah told the BBC th... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Africa Education Freetown Photos Sierra Leone Teachers |
 United Nations
Flooding in West Africa puts lives at risk, says UN health agency
| 19 August 2008 – International aid is urgently needed to reduce the risk to millions of lives in danger across West Africa due to the effects of flooding, the United Na... (photo: Public domain/Sam.Seyffert)
Africa Agency Flooding Health Photos |
 San Diego
Cocaine threatens stability in fragile West Africa
DAKAR - Cocaine smuggling is fanning political turbulence and undermining investment confidence in West Africa, where drugs experts say Latin American gangs threaten to t... (photo: Public Domain)
Africa Cocaine Dakar Investment Photos Security |
 International Herald Tribune
An American failure; Meaningful reform in Africa; Thaksin and Thailand
| An American failure | After nearly 30 years of the Reagan-Bush bravado of attacking small, easily defeated nations (remember Granada?), the United States blinked when f... (photo: GNU / Daniel Schwen)
Africa Global Photos Security Washington |
 United Nations
World Bank backs cash-for-work scheme to help hungry Sierra Leoneans
14 August 2008 – The World Bank has approved funds to support an emergency cash-for-work programme to help the poorest in Sierra Leone who are facing food insecurity due ... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Africa Aid Food Photos Sierra Leone World |
 News24
Cops fire teargas at protesters
| Clarence Macaulay | Freetown - Police said they fired tear gas on Wednesday to disperse a crowd of violent protesters that besieged the offices of Sierra Leone's opposi... (photo: WN / John Sahid)
Freetown Photos Police Protesters Sierra Leone |
 The Boston Globe
Zimbabweans abroad watch and await post-Mugabe era
| LONDON (Reuters) - Like millions of Zimbabweans living abroad, Leslie Maruziva follows the tortuous power-sharing talks going on at home. He wonders about leaving Londo... (photo: AP / Sayyid Azim)
Africa Election London Photos Zimababwe |
 Canada Dot Com
Soccer players refuse to defect
| FREETOWN, (Reuters Life!) -- A boys' soccer team from Sierra Leone won silver at a tournament in Sweden, but were hailed as champions in their poor West African homelan... (photo: Creative Commons / Botev )
Kids Life Photos Soccer Social |
