Sierra Leone News

After the success of the first Business Bomba Business Plan Competiion, the second edition is now underway with business plan application date closing yesterday 14th of January, 2011. A short list of 60 business plans will be made out of the total of more than 400 applications so far for intense training and finally the deserving winners will be selected. Winner will walk away with Le100million leones (about $25,000) which is not bad at all!

The first Business Bomba, helped a great deal and at the here are pictures of some of the products currently on the market by 3 of the Top 20 prize winners.

Moringa Tea

I’ve tasted it and it’s similar to Green Tea. Tastes better without milk. and oh I add honey from another Business Bomba winner

Organic Honey

This is my favourite of all! This honey doesn’t cake in the fridge as most of the imported others you get at the super market If you are a wholesaler/retailer and you fancy pure organic honey, just send me a note and I’ll get back to you. This product is pure Salone joy!

Dr Eammons Pineapple Juice

Contains about 6% alcohol. Having tasted it, it’s not bad at all. The labelling can be better but this is a Sierra Leone product worth exporting!

There are at least 3 more products- like cattle farming, cocoa plantation and cassava factory – that I know about which the respective owners have developed and are very promising…

Update

Recently bought home-made sierra leone chocolate…hmmm things are happening….. will bring you more info on that one.

Sierra Leone Golden Jubilee celebrations was kicked off at the Ma Dengn Beach  Festival which occurred on the 31st December and the 1st of January this year.

Similar to last year, 2009, the festival showcased Sierra Leonean culture with indigenous dancing and theatrical acrobatic acts and home-grown musicians and artists. There was also a fashion show featuring Sierra Leonean designers such as Aschobi, Swank and more.

This time, with the Sierra Leone At 50 celebrations was also kicked off with memerobillia such as bags and tee-shirts being sold.

Pictures Of Madengn Beach Festival 2010 & 2011

Happy New Year to all my family, friends, business associates and all who visit this site! May all your dreams be fulfilled this year, 2011.

I can’t believe 2010 has already passed. Boy how time flies. It seems like I just blinked and it’s gone!

Here in Sierra Leone, it’s been an ALL night party and MONSTER traffic…ARRRGHHHH. Boy it took as more than 1 hour from Atlantic Bar to Lumley roundabout last night! As I write this morning, Lumley is quieter in contrast to the party revelry that carried on till the early hours of this morning! Boy people know how to party and the beach does offer the perfect setting!

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This year has been a year of MUCH, much better light here in Freetown. Now put together we’ve had light on about 300 days  so far even before the year completes. For some it  has been better others worse depends on where you live.

Most of the problem with light has happened towards the end of  this year when the road works began. As I write, some areas close to Wilkinson Road and Congo Cross have not had light for 6 weeks or more now as the old electric poles are being relocated.

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In terms of sanitation things are better than a few years ago but there’s still a mighty long way to go. Several years ago, rubbish collection was more or less non-existent and I remember when there was a big pile of rubbish at Lumley roundabout and the taxi I was using got stuck there with no way to roll the windows up except for  the driver to get down and physically pull the windows up!!!  Oh my,  I still laugh when I remember it. Thankfully that pile of rubbish has been cleared.

But really rubbish on the streets is no laughing matter. For the past 10 months or so, rubbish collection has been getting better, that is, until about 2 weeks ago. One only has to watch the news to see how Haiti is suffering with cholera. God forbid that in Sierra Leone,

So here are 3 reasons why Freetown needs cleaning up and stay clean:

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This was launched on Monday by AFFORD and it’s aimed at encouraging the youth and people in general to start sustainable businesses.

A whole week of activities right up to Sunday has been in the works. Includes:

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It’s official Sierra Leone is moving up in the world index of peaceful countries. Sierra Leone is No. 53rd out of 149 countries.

New Zealand tops the list as the most peaceful countries. In Africa only 7 countries are more peaceful than Sierra Leone! And they are(in order of most peaceful): Botswana, Tunisia, Mozambique,Ghana, Egypt, Zambia and Malawi.  I’m particularly proud of this fact as the war was not too long ago.

Check the Global Peace Index 2010 here

And also for me, I can walk the streets at night without feeling afraid as well as if your car broke down in the middle of no where, there will always be people to help!  For me that’s what matters.

Bravo Mama Salone! More good news coming……

I received an email from a visitor to this site (Kim Riise hope you don’t mind my mentioning your name)  who wishes to visit and stay in Sierra Leone for a while, rather than just send her an email response, I thought I would post here for the benefit of others who wish to come too.

Queston: Is it generally safe?

Safe? sure safer than many other countries I’ve been to, that includes London and Ghana for that matter. So long as you don’t get mixed up in the wrong crowd. Here, women walk the streets at night – no problem. People look after each other round here.

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