AWE Media Sierra Leone

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Sierra Leone will face Cape Verde in a doubleheader between 22-24 and 29-31 July, this year in the first round of qualifiers for the TotalEnergies African Nations Championship-(CHAN). This pairing was confirmed on Tuesday, 26th May, 2022 by the Confederation of African Football-(CAF) following the conduct of the draw by Algerian legend Djamel Menad and CAF Head of Competitions Khalid Nassar in Cairo. Sierra Leone is among the nine teams in Zone-A battling  to progress from the qualifiers to make it to the finals of this upcoming CHAN  that will be hosted in Algeria. Of the nine nations is Zone-A, three have been seeded to the second leg qualifiers, they are: Guinea, Mali and Mauritania while Sierra Leone, Cape Verde, Liberia, Senegal, The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau will in respectively face each other in two legs with the overall winners of 3 joining the 3 seeded teams in the tournament second round which is scheduled to commence on August 26-28 th...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Yesterday, the Northeastern city of Makeni would have lost valuable lives and prosperities as a result of widespread misinformation by word of mouth and on social media. This would have happened if not for the joint and swift interventions of the Media, Executive Members of the Bombali District Bike Riders Union, Councilors and the Local Unit Commander of the Rogbaneh Police Station, Assistant Commissioner of Police Esther Kaintor Dukuray to calm the two hours plus long unrest in the city. Between the hours of 11:00am to 2:00pm on Thursday, some bike-riders went bazaar and barricaded with their motorbikes main streets along the central business district-(CBD) of the municipality upon receiving rumors that one of their members has been shot and killed by a police officer. The increasing number of the bike riders and their motorbikes blowing their horns loudly feared away the petty traders who have converged at the central market to sell their products as us...