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Sierra Leone Times - FREETOWN, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- The government of Sierra Leone on Friday rolled out the country's first hepatitis policy and strategy supported by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), aiming to help the West African country end the disease by 2030. Zhou Hejun, head of the China CDC team in Sierra Leone, said during the media briefing that it took almost two years for the team to comple

Sierra Leone Times - Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and foreign minister, meets with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali Abdoulaye Diop in Beijing, China, December 8, 2023. /Chinese Foreign MinistryChinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mali Abdoulaye Diop in Beijing, with the two sides agreeing to maintain mutual support and strengthen c

Sierra Leone Times - sydney - Australia says it will help train thousands of new police officers in Papua New Guinea as part of a bilateral security deal signed Thursday. The deal comes amid growing competition for influence in the region between Australia and its Western allies on one hand and China on the other. Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape said the 'historic ' accord did not mean his country was picking between China an

Sierra Leone Times - KIEV -- Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said Thursday that Kiev signed a memorandum with the United States to boost Ukraine's military production. "There will be more weapons! Ukraine and the U.S. signed the memorandum on joint production and exchange of technical data," Umerov wrote on Facebook. (Ukraine-US Military Cooperation) - - - - BRUSSELS -- At least four people were injured in a s

Sierra Leone Times - UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 7 (Xinhua) -- While most children and young people have heard of climate change, only half of them understand what it is, a new poll shows. On average, 85 percent of young people aged 15-24 surveyed in 55 countries said they have heard of climate change, yet only 50 percent chose the correct definition, according to a poll by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Gallup, whose results were rel

Sierra Leone Times - The Council of Ministers has approved the move in an amendment to the constitution An amendment to Burkina Faso's constitution granting local languages official status, while dropping French and making it a working language, was approved by the Council of Ministers on Wednesday. The minister of justice and huma

Sierra Leone Times - Chad and Mauritania are considering measures to end the union after the withdrawal of three founding states Chad and Mauritania, the only two remaining members of the Paris-backed G5 Sahel alliance, announced on Wednesday that they were allowing the African anti-jihadist coalition to dissolve. The decision follows the

Sierra Leone Times - YAOUNDE, Dec. 6 (Xinhua) -- Chadian and Mauritanian leaders acknowledged on Wednesday that the Group of Five for the Sahel (G5 Sahel) has become ineffective following the departure of three other founding countries. Last week, Niger and Burkina Faso announced their withdrawal from all G5 Sahel bodies. Mali had previously withdrawn from all organs and bodies of the G5 Sahel last year. In a joint statement,

Sierra Leone Times - Atomic energy is necessary for Africa to fulfil its development priorities, Princess Mthombeni has saidThe industrialization and development of the African continent cannot be achieved without atomic energy, nuclear communication specialist Princess Mthombeni said in an exclusive interview to RT on Monday.Speaking during the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 28) in Dubai,

Sierra Leone Times - Abuja, Nigeria - Niger's junta on Monday scrapped two key military agreements that the West African nation signed with the European Union to help fight the violence in Africa's Sahel region as the country's army leaders and a senior Russian defense official discussed military cooperation.Before the coup that deposed the country's president, Mohamed Bazoum, Niger had been the West and Europe's last major security

Sierra Leone Times - The move comes soon after Niger pledged to boost defense ties with Russia Niger's military government has withdrawn from two major security pacts with the European Union, saying it would end any "privileges and immunities" offered to EU forces under the deals. Naimey's foreign ministry

Sierra Leone Times - RIYADH, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- Saudi Arabia and Sierra Leone on Monday inked a deal to operate air services between the two countries. The Air Services Agreement (ASA) facilitates the participation of national carriers in each other's commercial air market, and builds regulatory frameworks for safe and efficient bilateral air transport services, the Saudi Press Agency reported. As a bilateral deal based on th

Sierra Leone Times - Two army factions clashed in the West African country's capital late Thursday; at least two people were killedDeadly violence erupted between two factions of the army in Guinea-Bissau late last week, in what the West African country's president, Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embalo, has denounced as a coup attempt.Gunfire broke out near the presidential palace in the capital, Bissau, on Thursday

Sierra Leone Times - Lagos, Nigeria - Nigeria is calling for the release of ousted Niger president Mohamed Bazoum and for the military junta to allow him to leave for a third country, its foreign minister said.Nigeria is current chair of the regional group Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS which has imposed sanctions on Niger following the July coup that ousted Bazoum.ECOWAS had been demanding Bazoum's immed

Sierra Leone Times - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - As participants at the United Nations' COP28 climate talks filed in Sunday for another day of talks, they found themselves greeted by a rare sight in the United Arab Emirates - a protest.From activism about the Israel-Hamas war to environmental issues, activists allowed into the UAE can demonstrate under strict guidelines in this autocratic nation. Others from organizations long ban

Sierra Leone Times - The country supplied 170,000 tons of confectionary in January-September, according to a RIA Novosti reportRussian chocolate exports rose 9% in January-September year-on-year, making the country the 11th largest supplier worldwide, RIA Novosti reported this week, citing data from UN Comtrade and the national association of confectionary makers (Askond).In total, 170,000 tons of Russian cho

Sierra Leone Times - NIAMEY, Dec. 2 (Xinhua) -- Niger and Burkina Faso have decided to withdraw from all the bodies of the Group of Five for the Sahel (G5 Sahel), effective from Nov. 29, according to a joint press statement jointly released by the two countries on Saturday. Created on Dec. 19, 2014 by Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali, Mauritania and Chad, the G5 Sahel was intended to "pool capacities and means to make the Sahel an area of

Sierra Leone Times - Ouagadougou (AFP) - The military leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger said Saturday they would quit the G5 anti-jihadist force in Africa's Sahel region, the latest blow to the fight against insurgents in one of the world's most troubled zones.The G5, created in 2014, has secured only meagre results, with Mali also quitting the original five-nation force last year in the wake of a military coup.Leaders of the

Sierra Leone Times - The military leaders of Burkina Faso and Niger said Saturday that they would end their participation in the G5 Sahel. Formed in 2014 by Niger, Mali, Chad, Mauritania and Burkina Faso, the G5 Sahel is an institutional framework for regional cooperation on development policies and security matters in West Africa.  Mali withdrew from the group last year. (With input from agencies)Source:

Sierra Leone Times - Yaounde, Cameroon - Chad's opposition and civil society groups are asking France to immediately withdraw troops who arrived in Chad after being ordered to depart neighboring Niger by that country's military junta.Ordjei Abderahim Chaha, president of the opposition party Rally for Justice and Equality, said Thursday that military ruler Mahamat Idriss Deby has failed to heed calls to ask French troops to leave.

Sierra Leone Times - The Russian prosecutor general has arrived in Algiers for a working visitRussia and Algeria have signed a judicial cooperation agreement with a view to combating extremism, terrorism, money laundering, and the trafficking of drugs and arms, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office has announced.The prosecutor general, Igor Krasnov, signed the protocol with Algerian Minister of Justice Abde

Sierra Leone Times - Celle, Germany - A German court on Thursday sentenced a Gambian man to life in prison over his participation in a death squad that assassinated opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including an AFP journalist.Bai Lowe was convicted of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder for his role as a driver for the hit squad known as the Junglers.Prosecutors had asked judges at the court in the

Sierra Leone Times - A ship in international waters off the coast of Senegal was brought back to a naval base in Dakar to assess the illegal cargo Nearly three tons of cocaine were confiscated from a ship moored off the coast of Senegal, the nation's navy announced on Tuesday. The seizure was reportedly Senegal's largest drug haul on

Sierra Leone Times - The European Union on Tuesday launched an international alliance to strengthen international cooperation against migrant smuggling. The move comes amid worsening conditions on migration routes towards Europe, especially through the Sahara and Mediterranean.The Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling was announced in Brussels at a conference attended by 57 countries."We must unite to close the loophol

Sierra Leone Times - Authorities claim armed men, including serving and retired soldiers, tried to illegally overthrow the government on Sunday A group of soldiers and police officers launched a series of attacks on military facilities and prisons in Sierra Leone over the weekend in an attempt to overthrow the civilian government, authori

Sierra Leone Times - GAZA -- A bus carrying 30 Palestinian prisoners departed on Tuesday evening from the Israeli Ofer prison, which is located near the West Bank city of Ramallah, said a Xinhua reporter on-site. The Israel Prison Service confirmed that 30 Palestinians, including 15 women and 15 minors, were released from Israeli jails in the fifth swap under a truce deal between Israel and Hamas. (Palestine-Israel-Prisoners Release

Sierra Leone Times - Sierra Leonean authorities say that Sunday's attacks on several locations in the capital, Freetown, were part of a failed coup attempt.Efforts to overthrow the government were led mostly by bodyguards of former Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma, according to Information Minister Chernor Bah and the Chief of Defense Staff Lieutenant General Patrick Lavahun, who addressed reporters at a Tuesday news confere

Sierra Leone Times - The head of Niger's military regime has repealed a law criminalising the trafficking of migrants. The country is a hub for those seeking to reach Europe via neighbouring Libya and Algeria.General Abdourahamane Tiani signed an order repealing the 2015 law relating to the illegal trafficking of migrants on Saturday, a government statement said.This law was in "flagrant contradiction" with local rules and "d

Sierra Leone Times - New Delhi [India], November 28 (ANI): President Droupadi Murmu accepted credentials from the ambassadors of six nations to India at a ceremony held at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in the national capital on Tuesday. According to an official release, President Murmu accepted the credentials from the ambassadors and high commissioners of Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Armenia, Malaysia, Mali and the Marshall Islands. Kevin Kell

Sierra Leone Times - NIAMEY, niger - Niger's junta said Monday that it had revoked an anti-migration law that helped reduce the flow of West Africans to Europe, but that was reviled by desert dwellers whose economies had long relied on the traffic.The law, which made it illegal to transport migrants through Niger, was passed in May 2015 as the number of people traveling across the Mediterranean Sea from Africa reached record highs,

Sierra Leone Times - Daily life resumed amid a heavy security presence in Sierra Leone's capital Freetown on Monday, as the government partially lifted a curfew imposed after armed clashes erupted in the city.Early on Sunday, armed assailants stormed a military armoury and several prisons, sparking battles with security forces that lasted for hours in the capital, Freetown.Sierra Leone has been going through a political crisi

Sierra Leone Times - FREETOWN, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Sierra Leone's armed forces on Monday confirmed the deaths of seven personnel during clashes with armed assailants who targeted military barracks in Freetown, the country's capital. On Sunday morning, unidentified individuals attacked the Wilberforce military barracks and other locations, including the Pademba Road Correctional Center, leading to a prison break. During a pres