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BigLee's Miniature Adventures (Free subscription) | yesterday
I've tried several purpose built programmes over the years to create maps of cities, towns and even whole campaign settings. Universally the ones I have used have been excellent, but very hard to learn. In fact I have often felt like I was training to acquire a new skill for work rather than knocking together a map for my D&D campaign. Although the end results looked amazing the amount of time...
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Woolly Days (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma has called on the west to invest in his country on a visit to London. Koroma told the BBC the West African nation is “open” to investment in tourism and mineral investment in bauxite, iron ore and diamonds. Koroma was spruiking his message at a conference last week in the British capital where he also hailed the recent Anadarko Petroleum’s...
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Listen to Africa (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
From Guinea-Bissau's Bijagos islands to Freetown, Sierra Leone: a dash through Guinea's beautiful landscapes and unstable political climate - by Land Rover. Guinea: a dash through a dashing country is a post from: Listen to Africa
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Listen to Africa (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Arrived in the warm and wonderful chaos of Freetown. A bit blown away, in a good way – suspect we may be here a while… Arrived in the warm and wonder… is a post from: Listen to Africa Arrived in the warm and wonder… is a post from: Listen to Africa
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
TAUNTON - A Freetown man is facing a murder charge in the beating death of a Florida man who was brought to a hospital already dead. A spokesman for the Bristol district...
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Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
A Freetown man is facing a murder charge in the beating death of a Florida man who was brought to a hospital already dead.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Sanusi Lamido, has totally disowned all the Nigerian owned banks operating in Sierra Leone.The governor who was on a visit to Sierra Leone this week,informed a cross section of newsmen in the Bank of Sierra Leone Auditorium, Sam Bangura Building in Freetown, that all the said Nigerian banks operating in Sierra Leone were regulated and monitored by...
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AfricanLoft (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Sierra Leone has launched a satellite link-up to connect doctors around the country to their colleagues in India. The system enables doctors in Sierra Leone to consult doctors in India and benefit from data analysis in better-equipped Indian hospitals. For now the telemedicine link-up has been launched in Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown. But national hospital [...]
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Desertification (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Read at : AfricaFiles Title: Sierra Leone: New agriculture plan sprouts Author: Press Release, Freetown Category: Western Region Date: 10/29/2009 Source: IPS Source Website: http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/ African Charter Article# 22: All peoples shall have the right to their economic, social and cultural development within the common heritage of humanity . Summary & Comment: [...]
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FACT NETWORK (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
From Awareness Times Newspaper in Freetown Local News In Sierra Leone, President to Commission Bumbuna November 6 By Oct 23, 2009, 17:24 Minister of Energy and Water Supply has said in Freetown that phase one of the Bumbuna Hydro Electric Project is completed and would be commissioned by President Ernest Bai Koroma on the 6th November 2009. Professor Ogunlade Davidson disclosed that the capital city...
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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
I don't remember how I got to it, but I read this BBC News story about a girl sold as a slave. Five-year-old Florence Kampi was kidnapped at her father's funeral by a family who used her as a slave. She was taken to Yemen And then you can easily work out who are the slave traders: Muslims. It's rather astonishing that so many people seem to ignore the slave trade - it exists - for no obvious reason...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Eight persons convicted of war crimes by the Special Court for Sierra Leone were transferred to Rwanda over the weekend to begin serving their sentences. Amid tight security, the eight men were flown by helicopter from the special court compound to Freetown International Airport, where they boarded a UN-chartered plane for Kigali, Rwanda, the court said on Monday. The plane departed at 3:50 p. m. local...