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• All Africa.Com: Recent News Summaries on Sierra Leone (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
  News summaries are based mostly on Concord Times (Freetown), The Progress (Freetown), the United Nations, Pan African News Agency (PANA), and other sources. Warning: access to articles older than 30 days requires a subscription.
  
  
• Awareness times. (Online) -- Freetown, Sierra Leone: Sylvia Blyden Dot Com, Awareness Times Sierra Leone, 2005-
  Selected online current and recent news, editorials, and commentary.
  
  
• Awoko. (Online) -- Freetown, Sierra Leone: Awoko Newspaper, 2007-
  This site offers the electronic version of an "independent" print newspaper launched in 2003.
  Warning: The archive of back issues is searchable....but the publication dates of articles are not indicated.
  
  
• British Broadcasting Corporation Online Network--Sierra Leone (London, UK)
  • BBC Current News on Africa (General)
  • BBC News Country Profile on Sierra Leone (May 2009) and links to related news stories
    
    
  • BBC News on Sierra Leone Elections 2007 (September 18, 2007)
    --Plus: Country Profile: Sierra Leone (November 18, 2005)
    -- Sierra Leone: memories of war (January 19, 2002)
    -- Sierra Leone peacekeeping crisis (September 22, 2000)
    -- Crisis in Sierra Leone (September 11, 2000)
    -- Profile of Foday Sankoh, rebel leader (May 12, 2000) ; plus links to related news stories in 2000
  • BBC News Special Report: Sierra Leone, July 1999
  
  
• Cocorioko newspaper. (Online) -- Somerset, New Jersey: Cocorioko Ltd., 2002-
  An online newspaper for Sierra Leone and especially for the Sierra Leone diaspora in the USA and Canada.
  
  
• Cotton Tree News: Radio News (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
  A European donor-funded radio station offers selected current news summaries on this web site and audio downloads of recent programs.
  
  
• New citizen, The. (Online) -- Freetown, Sierra Leone: New Citizen Publications, 2007-
  Originally established in 1982 as a print newspaper.
  Current and recent news from a newspaper in Sierra Leone...owned by the current Minister of Information, with archive since March 2007.
  
  
• Patriotic vanguard, The. (Online) -- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Patriotic Vanguard, 2005-
  An online newspaper on events in Sierra Leone and a variety of issues --social life, politics, business, and cultural-- affecting Sierra Leonean and other African immigrants in Canada and the USA.
  
  
• PEEP! (Online) -- Freetown, Sierra Leone: 3EyesMedia Group, 2008-
  Current news commentary; updated frequently. The site is searchable, with back issue articles since February 2008.
  
  
• The Pool. (Online)--Archive 2001 -- Freetown, Sierra Leone : The Pool, 1999-2001 (via Tripod.Com)
  Last update: March 2001: An "independent" newspaper published 3 times per week, with a small back issues archive.
  
  
• Republic of Sierra Leone -- State House Online Office of the President -- News & Information. (Freetown, Sierra Leone)
  
  
• Sierra Express Media (Freetown, Sierra Leone, via USA and UK)
  Current news website for Sierra Leoneans, at home and abroad, with selected stories and analysis.
  
  
• Sierra Leone News and Archives (1994--) (Peter C. Anderson, Sierra Leone Web)
  News summaries and archives based on reports from Western news wire services, the United Nations, and the Sierra Leone government. See also, the entire web site.
  
  
• Standard times press news. (Online) -- Freetown, Sierra Leone: Standard Times Press, 2006-
  This electronic newspaper offers daily news, editorials, commentaries, recent news coverage and feature reports, including: Business World.
  
  
• Talking Drum Studio in Sierra Leone (Search for Common Ground, Washington, DC)
  This web site features information about radio program broadcasts in Sierra Leone, with selected audio downloads [mp3 format] of current news events and issues.
  
  
• United Nations on Sierra Leone --- News
  • IRIN--Integrated Regional Information Network for West Africa: Sierra Leone (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - UNOCHA)
  • ReliefWeb on Sierra Leone
    Links to current or breaking news, compiled and archived by IRIN-WA and other news services.