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New York, Feb 2 2012 7:10PM Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his appreciation of the work of the outgoing United Nations envoy to Sierra Leone, Michael von der Schulenburg, including his initiatives to boost donor cooperation and efficient aid use in the West African country.

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Political parties in Sierra Leone say a top U.N. representative to the nation is leaving as polls approach later this year.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: The ABC's Foreign Correspondent program returns to our screens on Tuesday night for its 20th year on air.

THE New Statesman recently carried an article entitled The Vagabond King. It tells the story of Valentine Strasser.

The journey of the next fifty years of independence has begun; and we are gathered here today to map out how we are going to make it better than the journey we made during the last fifty years.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced his appreciation of the work of the outgoing United Nations envoy to Sierra Leone, Michael von der Schulenburg, including his initiatives to boost donor cooperation and efficient aid use in the West African country.

China's finger is now in virtually every Zimbabwean pie and the Chinese Yuan may soon become the official currency Written by Ralph Sawyerr on February 2, 2012.

Thirty foreign medical specialists arrived in Sierra Leone on Thursday where they will give free treatment in often complex and expensive cases, the health ministry said.

When 25-year-old Valentine Strasser seized power in Sierra Leone in 1992, he became the world's youngest head of state.

Charles Taylor's defense lawyers have made a request for judges to allow the former Liberian president to reopen his defense, almost one year after arguments in the case were concluded.

Hundreds of people gathered in Dakar to protest a court ruling, allowing 85-year-old president Abdoulaye Wade to run for another term.

London Mining, which began producing iron ore in Sierra Leone in December, said on Wednesday it had made its first shipment of ore from Marampa to a destination in Europe.

Sitting in the home he built with his own hands on Peace Way in Barrhaven, Nepean Outreach to the World founder Des Garvey is surrounded by clothes.

FEATURES Tread Softly The footprints left by tourists can have significant cultural and environmental impacts-but they don't need to be negative ones.

FREETOWN, Jan 31, 2012 - The launch of Sierra LeoneA's first online mining database in West Africa comes with a promise to increase transparency and accountability in the countryA's rich natural resource sector.

The shocking news that the former Liberian strongman was indeed a CIA informant in the early years of his rise to notoriety calls into question America's complicity in Taylor's destruction of Liberia.

Sierra Leone becomes the first country in Africa to launch a transparency web portal to ensure a more open and accountable Government Written by Ahmed M Kamara on January 27, 2012.

Medecins Sans Frontieres aid worker Maria Elena Lacapra, center, works on a water and sanitation installation outside a surgical center in Haiti last year.

Black Looks writes about "Say Grace Before Drowning" , a film by Sierra Leonean/American Nikyatu Jusu: "The film tells the story about a woman's struggle to overcome the insanity of war as she tries to adjust to a life in exile." Black Looks writes about "Say Grace Before Drowning", a film by Sierra Leonean/American Nikyatu Jusu: "The film tells ... (more)

Newswise - On Sunday, January 29, three physicians and two nurses from the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Emergency Department will travel to Sierra Leone to help improve the quality of healthcare and its delivery within the impoverished West African country.