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SIERRA LEONE: Salimatu Thoronk...
SIERRA LEONE: Salimatu Thoronka, “I have given birth to four children since losing my legs”
IRIN
Tuesday, October 02, 2007
Salimatu Thoronka had both her legs cut off by rebels in 1999 when she was 19 years old. She is now training to become a seamstress in Makeni in a...
editors, choice, salimatu thoronka, rebels, handicap, birth, legs, training, children
SIERRA LEONE: Schools without ...
SIERRA LEONE: Schools without teachers
IRIN
Monday, October 01, 2007
With only 19 percent of children in school following Sierra Leone’s decade-long civil war, the former government began an ambitious project to...
editors, choice, schools, teachers, education, government, civil war
SIERRA LEONE: Reinstating rule...
SIERRA LEONE: Reinstating rule of law starting with motorcycle licenses
IRIN
Friday, September 14, 2007
A decade of civil war left Sierra Leone’s administration in tatters but when the Catholic diocese in the former rebel stronghold of Makeni set up...
editors, choice, law, motorcycle, licenses, government, youth, society, injustice, traffic, corruption
SIERRA LEONE: The election iss...
SIERRA LEONE: The election issue -- basic services
IRIN
Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Sierra Leoneans go to the polls on 11 August having the second lowest standard of living in the world, according to UN Human Development Report. Of...
editors, choice, election, polls, poverty, health, water, electricity, society, anti-corruption, campaign, manifesto, report
SIERRA LEONE: New laws give wo...
SIERRA LEONE: New laws give women unprecedented rights, protections
IRIN
Thursday, July 05, 2007
Women in Sierra Leone stand to enjoy unprecedented rights under new laws making wife-beating a criminal offence, allowing women to inherit property,...
editors, choice, women, rights, law, forced, marriage
SIERRA LEONE: Long road ahead ...
SIERRA LEONE: Long road ahead for awareness programmes
PlusNews
Sunday, July 01, 2007
Poor information and a lack of open discussion about sex is fueling an increase in HIV in postwar Sierra Leone, according to Dr Brima Kargbo, acting...
editors, choice, culture, tradition, practice, hiv, aids, health, circumcision
Scaling up child survival in S...
Scaling up child survival in Sierra Leone
Reliefweb.org
Thursday, June 14, 2007
Targeting more than 1.2 million women of childbearing age for tetanus toxoid and 85,000 children under the age of five for Vitamin A and deworming ...
editors, choice, children, vaccination, immunization, health, aid
SIERRA LEONE: Asatu Koroma,
SIERRA LEONE: Asatu Koroma, "Game of life and death"
IRIN
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Like most Sierra Leonean women, Asatu Koroma, 29, gave birth to all five of her children at the home of a traditional midwife. The first four births...
editors, choice, women, child, birth, death
SIERRA LEONE: Women, governmen...
SIERRA LEONE: Women, government launch campaign against sexual violence
PlusNews
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Thousands of women recently marched against sexual violence in the main streets of Sierra Leones capital, Freetown, as part of a new initiative to...
editors, choice, women, violence, hiv, aids
SIERRA LEONE: Local fishermen ...
SIERRA LEONE: Local fishermen struggle to survive amidst foreign trawlers
IRIN
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Meriam Samu travels more than 30km every morning to buy the fresh catch of the day from local fishermen in the western part of the capital, Freetown....
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