http://www.anjnews.com/sierraleone Sierra Leone News. en http://www.anjnews.com/content/sierra-leone-looks-farmers-help-spur-economic-growth A multi-pronged effort should help mango farmers and the juice factory they supply reach internation Fri, 13 May 2011 13:15:57 -0700 ANJ Online 212515 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/sierra-leone-govt-promise-involve-women-governance In Sierra Leone's highly patriarchal society, where institutionalised gender inequalities are exacerbated by discriminatory customs, one group is singing its way towards changing this. Fri, 13 May 2011 12:54:38 -0700 ANJ Online 212516 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/sierra-leone-holds-both-lessons-and-warnings-ivory-coast Sierra Leone recently celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence. Fri, 13 May 2011 05:52:43 -0700 ANJ Online 212371 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/actor-isaiah-washington-appointed-chief-sierra-leone-tribe Actor Isaiah Washington has been appointed chief of a Sierra Leone tribe, after embarking on a quest to discover his roots. Fri, 13 May 2011 02:18:14 -0700 ANJ Online 212302 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/sierra-leone-first-fruit-juice-company-adding-value-farming Crate loads of lush ripe mangos are stacked up, a sweet fragrance filling the air. Factory workers wait for their instructions, decked out in protective coats, rubber boots and hairnets. Thu, 12 May 2011 21:25:00 -0700 ANJ Online 212264 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/world-prosecutors-meet-sierra-leone Prosecutors from the six international UN-backed courts are to meet in Freetown to look at best practices and how to close the tribunals when their work is done. SIERRALEONE Thu, 12 May 2011 10:18:54 -0700 ANJ Online 212104 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/india-second-home-me-gary-kirsten Dubai, May 12 : Former India coach Gary Kirsten talks about his future and passes on some advice to incoming coach Duncan Fletcher, while Gary’s half-brother Peter talks about his new role coaching SIERRALEONE Thu, 12 May 2011 08:22:08 -0700 ANJ Online 212105 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/west-africa-rising-leaders-tout-sierra-leones-first-value-added-factory-war Mango juice concentrate is now churning out of a factory’s gleaming steel machinery in Sierra Leone. It's the country's first significant value-added export since it fell into civil war in 1991. SIERRALEONE Tue, 10 May 2011 11:16:34 -0700 ANJ Online 211470 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/sierra-leone%E2%80%99s-refugee-allstars-flobots-elephant-revival-open-dispatch Dispatch will kick off its reunion tour with three nights at Red Rocks starting on June 3. The group has now confirmed support acts for a number of these dates, many of which are sold-out. SIERRALEONE Tue, 10 May 2011 11:16:15 -0700 ANJ Online 211472 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/sierra-leone-what-went-wrong-50-years Sierra Leone's 50 years independence celebration has created a mood of excitement across the country but three-fourths of the population does not even know the significance of the event. Tue, 10 May 2011 06:39:38 -0700 ANJ Online 211344 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/sierra-leone%E2%80%99s-refugee-allstars Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars started playing music together in West African refugee camps while their homeland was being racked by years of bloody warfare. SIERRALEONE Tue, 10 May 2011 00:10:21 -0700 ANJ Online 211233 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/sabrina-mahtani-provides-legal-aid-female-prisoners-sierra-leone Sabrina Mahtani helps women in prison (often innocent) in Sierra Leone's rough, overcrowded prisons Mon, 09 May 2011 08:11:49 -0700 ANJ Online 211023 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/sabrina-mahtani-provides-legal-aid-female-prisoners-sierra-leone-0 In 2005, a young woman in Sierra Leone was sentenced to death for a murder she did not commit. Her purported crime was the killing of a 6-month-old baby, the daughter of her husband's second wife. SIERRALEONE Mon, 09 May 2011 07:55:08 -0700 ANJ Online 211471 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/nigeria-rebuilding-cote-divoire-lessons-sierra-leone The demise of Laurent Gbagbo's regime offers fresh opportunities to tackle Cote d'Ivoire's intractable problems. Mon, 09 May 2011 05:54:57 -0700 ANJ Online 210917 at http://www.anjnews.com http://www.anjnews.com/content/media-where-next-sierra-leone The African nation, which just celebrated 50 years of independence, should look to the mistakes of the past as it plans for its future, writes Paul Richards, the Edward P Bass Distinguished Visiting F Mon, 09 May 2011 03:03:06 -0700 ANJ Online 210869 at http://www.anjnews.com