Sierra Leone: News & Information: August 2004 Archives: President Kabbah

Archive of August 2004 Reports

Kuwait Fund Delegation Meets President Kabbah

For about two decades now economic and technical cooperation between the government of Sierra Leone and the Kingdom of Kuwait has been evidenced in the construction of the Freetown-Waterloo highway in the 1980s and the Waterloo-Tokeh-Lumley road that is currently under reconstruction.

(31st August 2004)

President Kabbah Visits Newly Rehabilitated Palm Kernel Oil Mill.

The 1980s are remembered in Sierra Leone as the period that economic decline got to its highest. The close of the 1980s witnessed an unprecedented period for the downward trend of most public enterprises and parastatals, while some even came to a complete inertia.

(30th August 2004)

WARDA Director-General Calls On President Kabbah

Food Security has, in the past two years, been the touchstone of every public pronouncement by His Excellency, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. Tremendous efforts have been made to bring on board donor agencies, development partners and the private sector so as to ensure the realization of President Kabbah's vision of food security for Sierra Leone by the year 2007.

(26th August 2004)

Commonwealth Director-General For The Agriculture Ministry

The newly appointed Director-General of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security, Mr. Patrick Hanmer has paid a courtesy call on President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah at his Hill Station office.

(26th August 2004)

Liberian Head Of State Visits Sierra Leone

The Head of State and Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia, Charles Gyude Bryant has ended a two-day working visit to Sierra Leone.
Chairman Bryant and his delegation were received by the President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, His Excellency,Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah at the UNAMSIL helipad in Freetown on Wednesday,18th August,2004.

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(19th August 2004)

American Ambassador Presents Credentials

The newly appointed Ambassador of the United States of America to the Republic of Sierra Leone, Thomas Neil Hull III, today Tuesday 19th August 2004 presented his Letter of Credence and the Letter of Recall of his predecessor, Ambassador Peter R. Chaveas to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah at his Hill Station Lodge in Freetown.
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(19th August 2004)

President Kabbah Opens Land Policy Workshop

The issue of land over the last couple of years has become a very sensitive issue. Land is a very precious national resource that if not properly managed can result in crisis, sometimes escalating to national dimensions. Sierra Leone has had little or no land-use planning since independence. This situation has created enormous problems which government has decided to address once and for all.
The indiscriminate and unlawful acquisition of land particularly in the Western Area made it incumbent upon government to come up with a land policy that will address the land issue nationally. Presently, the country is operating on a two-tier land system wherein land policy in the Western Area is different from land policy in the provinces. To address this issue, government in the recent past set up a Land Reform Commission that was given the responsibility to look at the land laws and make recommendations to government. The Land Reform Commission has almost completed its proposals. Today, Government has also decided to have a National Land Policy. His Excellency the President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, opened the workshop on the formulation of a National Land Policy.
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(16th August 2004)

Newly Appointed Minister Of Health and Deputy Minister of Agriculture Takes Oath

The new Minister of Health and Sanitation, Mrs. Abator M. Thomas, and the new deputy Minister of Agriculture 2 ,John A. Karim-Sesay, today took the Oath of office before the President at a ceremony held at the Presidential Lodge, Hill station.
The occasion followed the approval of their appointment by the Parliamentary Committee on appointments on the 12th of August,2004.

(13th August 2004)

Members Of The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Meet President Kabbah

The Chairman and members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) presented an update of the Commission's activities to the President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, on Tuesday 10th August, 2004.

(10th August 2004)

Bank of Sierra Leone Celebrates 40th Anniversary

As part of its activities to commemorate forty years of existence, the Bank of Sierra Leone has today launched a new bank note of Le.10, 000 denomination, Le.500 coin and a special commemorative coin of Le100 denomination.
Before proceeding to launch the new bank note and coins, His Excellency President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, at a solemn ceremony at the Sam Bangura Building, unveiled the bust of the Late Samuel Lansana Bangura, former Governor of the Bank of Sierra Leone, after whom the new building hosting the bank's headquaters had been named.

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(4th August 2004)

Newly Appointed Attorney-General and Minister of Justice Takes Oath

The newly appointed Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Frederick Max Carew, on Tuesday 3rd August 2004 took the oath of office before His Excellency the President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah at the Presidential Lodge, Hill Station, Freetown.
The new Attorney- General expressed great appreciation for the confidence the President has placed in him by selecting him to be among his able lieutenants in steering the affairs of the nation. He promised to do his job to the best of his ability to ensure an efficient judiciary.

(3rd August 2004)

National Association Of Farmers Of Sierra Leone Meet President Kabbah

As Sierra Leone engages its gear to meet its 2007 Food Security timescale which was declared by President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah during his inaugural address at the beginning of his second term of office, government and key stakeholders with farmers as the major stakeholder have been putting plans together to ensure that the President's vision of food security by 2007 is achieved. One of such moves was the organization of farmers under the umbrella of the National Association of Farmers of Sierra Leone (NAFSL).

(2nd August 2004)