William Farquhar Conton (1925 – 2003)
William Farquhar Conton was born on 5 September 1925 in Bathurst, Gambia, to the union of Cecil Conton (1885–1926) and ...
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Sierra Leone outlaws child marriage with new bill
Sierra Leone officially banned child marriage on Tuesday with President Julius Maada Bio signing into law a bill to end ...
Sierra Leone outlaws child marriage in new legislation
Sierra Leone's parliament has approved a law banning child marriage in a development lauded by activists as a major win ...
Mende people of Sierra Leone
In Sierra Leone today, the Mende are one of the two largest ethnic groups; their neighbours, the Temne people, have ...
Russian foreign minister discusses bilateral relations with Sierra Leone counterpart
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently hosted his counterpart from Sierra Leone, Timothy Kabba, in Moscow for discussions aimed at ...
Sierra Leone energy minister resigns over electricity crisis, as power returns to capital
Sierra Leone's Energy Minister Kanja Sesay resigned on Friday over a weeks-long electricity crisis, the same day the government announced ...
UN assembly adopts resolution backing ongoing efforts to eliminate ‘blood diamonds’ trade
The UN general assembly adopted Wednesday (Apr. 03) a resolution on the role of diamonds in fuelling conflict and expressing ...
Nigeria to grant mining licences only to companies that process locally
Nigeria will only grant new mining licences to companies that present a plan on how minerals would be processed locally, ...
Sierra Leone’s President Bio hails China’s continued support in infrastructure development
Julius Maada Bio, president of the Republic of Sierra Leone, hailed China's continued support to the western African country in ...
ECOWAS not under influence of foreign powers – mediator
Sierra Leone's Foreign Minister Timothy Musa Kabba has denied accusations by the junta-led regimes of Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso ...
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