Sierra Leone: News & Information: May 2005 Archives: President Kabbah

Archive of May 2005 Reports

Priscilla's Home Coming - Thomalind Martin Polite Meets President Kabbah

Slavery and the trans-atlantic slave trade in particular was one of the greatest ills inflicted on Africans by Europeans and Americans. The world is still grappling with its consequences. Anthropologists and historians continue to investigate this dreadful past, all contributing to assisting African-Americans trace their roots.

(30th May 2005)

Sierra Leone Commercial Bank Presents Dividends

The Sierra Leone Commercial Bank Ltd., Sierra Leone's first indigenous bank, owned and managed by Sierra Leoneans has over the years been growing steadily to gain the confidence of the people and achieve international banking standards.
The chairman of the Board of Directors, on behalf of the Board of Directors, Management and Staff of the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank on Monday, 30th May 2005, presented the dividend cheque of 3.6 billion Leones to President Kabbah as dividend for the year 2004, payable to Government as its sole shareholder.

(30th May 2005)

United Nations Peace Keepers Receive Medals

As the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) observed International Peacekeepers Day on Friday, 27th May, 2005, peacekeepers from seventeen countries around the world received medals for having spent ninety days of service in their operational areas without any blemish.
The President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Ambassador Daudi Mwakawago presented the gallant men and women with medals. The ceremony which was held at the United Nations headquarters in Freetown was witnessed by government Ministers, members of the United Nations system in Sierra Leone, the Diplomatic Corps and government officials.

(27th May 2005)

ONS Launches Security Sector Reform Documents

One of the legacies of the almost eleven-year rebel war in Sierra Leone is the realization of the need for the country to have a well structured, well-equipped and a well coordinated security apparatus in place.
Prior to the rebel war, the security sector institutions had suffered high degree of neglect, making them ineffective and unreliable during the course of the war.The ineffectiveness of these institutions made the people of Sierra Leone lose confidence in the security forces.
To address this situation, government has made as one of its major challenges the transformation of the security sector with a bid of making it respond adequately to threats to the State and its citizenry. As a result government established the Office of National Security (ONS) in 2002, charged with the responsibility of co-ordinating the affairs of national security, intelligence gathering and analysis.
The Office of National Security (ONS) on Thursday, 26th May, 2005 launched three key Security Sector Reform Documents for Sierra Leone: the Sierra Leone Security Review Report 2005, the Protective Security Manual for Government Ministries and the Standard Response Guidelines-Decision-making process.
The President, Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, was at the ceremony to perform the official launching of the documents.
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(26th May 2005)

Food Security Pledge Gets A Boost

In his inaugural address upon assumption of office after the May 2002 Presidential Elections to mark his second term in office, President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah made a pronouncement to the people of Sierra Leone that "No Sierra Leonean should go to bed hungry by 2007". The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security was given the task of facilitating the actualization of the President's pledge.
The Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) commemorated the third anniversary of this pledge with a series of activities, including a symposium, a mini agricultural show held at the Miatta Conference Centre, Youyi Building, Brookfields in Freetown and a mini donors' roundtable at State House on Thursday, 19th May, 2005.
The anniversary was observed as a day of stock-taking to reflect on achievements made so far and put in place innovative strategies aimed at achieving food security by 2007.
Giving a summary of his Ministry's achievements in the area of food security, Dr. Sama Monde told his audience that 61% of goals set for 2004 was achieved.
The President, Dr. Alhaji Ahmad Kabbah, was at the Miatta Conference Hall to open the symposium together with Dr. Jacques Diouf, Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization.
The symposium was followed by a mini donors' roundtable at State House where a proposal on "Operation Feed the Nation" was presented by the Minister of Development and Economic Planning, Mr. Mohamed Daramy, for deliberation by donors represented in the country.
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(20th May 2005)

Angelina Jolie Meets President Kabbah

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie, has had audience with President Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah at his Hill Station Office in Freetown.
Angelina Jolie, a renowned film actress is in Sierra Leone as a guest of WITNESS, an international human rights organization which was charged with responsibility of producing a video version of the report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). She is in Freetown to discuss with government on how far the recommendations of the report have been addressed.

(11th may 2005)

Press Release
World Bank Approves PRSP
(8th May 2005)

Twenty Cuban Doctors For Sierra Leone

The health sector, one of the hardest hit by the rebel war is gradually being salvaged through government's collaborative efforts with bilateral and multilateral partners. With a substantial number of hospitals, health centres and clinics already rehabilitated by the National Commission for Social Action (NaCSA) and through ngos, the age-old problem of insufficient Medical Doctors to cover the entire country has been another area that has received government's urgent and serious attention.

(2nd May 2005)