03:07 GMT 21st December 2011
The first shipment of iron ore from African Minerals' Tonkolili mine in Sierra Leone has left for China, the West African state's deputy minister for natural resources said in November.
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03:12 GMT 8th November 2011
The violent clash last month between supporters of the ruling and opposition parties in Sierra Leone does not augur well for next year's election. By Desmond Davies
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09:58 GMT 28th September 2011
Students at the famous Fourah Bay College were unable to take their final exams because of a lack of paper, the BBC reported last month.
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03:46 GMT 15th June 2011
Once one of the leading nanles in Sierra Leone's artistic establishment, Rosemarie Marke had to reinvent herself following her flight into exile, writes Angela Cobbinah
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11:59 GMT 12th April 2011
When Sierra Leone became independent in 1961 the future looked bright. But within a few years the high hopes had begun to unravel as personal political ambitions got in the way of good governance. As the country celebrates its 50th birthday this month, Desmond Davies finds out how it all went so horribly wrong
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11:45 GMT 24th March 2011
What is the nexus between political parties in West Africa and organised crime? This was the question that a roundtable discussion attempted to dissect in Lima, where Desmond Davies was one of the participants
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03:43 GMT 21st October 2010
The UN Security Council has lifted the last remaining sanctions against Sierra Leone, eight years after the end of a bloody civil war.
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