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Michigan-Sierra Leone Partnership Moves Ahead with Multidisciplinary Engagements

FREETOWN, Sierra Leone – The partnership between the Michigan National Guard and the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) took another step forward April 11-18 with three separate engagements ...
LBC

I was taken hostage in Sierra Leone: Twenty-five years later, I went back to face it

Twenty-five years ago, I was taken hostage in Sierra Leone. Eleven of us - ten British soldiers and our interpreter - were ...
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Sierra Leone and Brig. Gen. Kabia: A progressive voice for African military women

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Brig. Gen. Kestoria Kabia represents Sierra Leone this week at the African Land Forces Summit - not only with the country's delegation, but as its first female one-star. "I had a ...
The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Sierra Leone’s ruling SLPP party chairman calls on military and security forces to help party stay in power

Sierra Leone’s ruling SLPP party chairman – Jimmy Batilo Songa, has caused a stir after making a statement calling on the country’s security forces, ...
Reuters

Sierra Leone says arrests soldiers planning presidential protest

FREETOWN (Reuters) - Sierra Leone's army said it arrested nine soldiers over the weekend for planning a protest during a visit by President Ernest Bai Koroma to his hometown. The arrests highlight ...
UNHCR

Sierra Leone: UNHCR preparing for returns from Guinea

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Ron Redmond – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 27 November 2001 UNHCR is ...