AWE Media Sierra Leone

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Head Coach Alimu Koroma and his U-15 Boys got it all right in their opening game at the West Africa Football Union-(WAFU) Zone A tournament against Mauritania. The lads from Sierra Leone dislodged the Mauritanians 6-0 to tentatively top the tournament’s group standing after match day-1 curtains were drawn at the Samuel K-Doe Stadium in neighboring Liberia. It was Alie Kabia who first scored to put his team forward four minutes on, 21 minutes later Bailor Bah who was later named Man of the Match doubled Sierra Leone’s lead in the first half. Coming from the dugouts, second half substitute Osman Mansaray netted twice successively in the 48th and 50th minutes before his teammate Musa Sesay increased their tally to 5-0 just ten minutes to the hour mark. Mansaray completed his hat-trick in the 55th minute to seal a huge 6-0 victory for his country. Meanwhile, the Sierra Leone U-15 side will return to action again at 8:00am today when they will be meeting Senega...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  For the first-ever edition of the Africa Super League, CAF, the Africa continent football governing body has confirmed pumping a whooping sum of One Hundred Million United States dollars ($100,000,000) as prize money. According to CAF, the tournament will be contested by representatives’ teams from all zones in the Africa continent with the team to emerge as champions to bag home the sum of USD 11.6 Million as prize money. The recent announcement follows the official launching ceremony of the eagerly anticipated Africa Super League in the Tanzanian city of Arusha on August 9 this year in the presence of 52 Member Associations, leading football Club officials, legends including Gianni Infantino, the FIFA President that graced the launch. Partners and members of the African football family have observed that “having the Africa Super League is a great development for the continent because it gives a chance to have more competitions that brings in more money, ...

​ By: SLAJ President, AHMED SAHID NASRALLA, at the CSOs and Media Dailogue with His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio on Reflections on the August 10th Violent Protests In Sierra Leone. Mr. President, Mr. Vice President, Ministers of Government, Colleagues from CSOs and the Media, Sierra Leoneans watching us live, Good afternoon. Let me start by re-echoing our condemnation of the unfortunate incidents starting from August 8th to the violent protests of August 10th 2022. Our heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives, including police officers, as a result of those incidents. Your Excellency, we all should take responsibility for what has happened- the government, the opposition, the security sector, the media, CSOs, our traditional and religious leaders, Sierra Leoneans in the Diaspora- all of us are responsible. If we have a correctional center as big as Freetown, I would have recommended that we all spend some time there to go through some ...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Non-stop pouring of rain in the country’s capital city Freetown since Monday night has caused flooding and flash floods at some communities as well as on mains streets, the National Disaster Management Agency-(NDMA) and the Sierra Leone Metrological Agency have confirmed. Both agencies stated in a joint statement issued Tuesday that there has been no reported deaths or destruction of any major property from the series of reports they’ve received so far. According to NDMA, they’ve dispatch their personnel to conduct risk assessments on the flood areas for possible intervention but has on the advise of SLMet weather forecast proffered seven precautionary measures for residents in Freetown to adhered to in order to save lives, properties, businesses and critical assets. The proffered measures demands that people living in low-lying areas should relocate to high grounds, those living on critical and dangerous step slopes should move from those areas, other res...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  As they set to battle their Mauritanian opponents at 10:00am today at the Samuel K-Doe stadium in their tournament opener, Sierra Leone’s U-15 male trainer Alimu Koroma has expressed belief to dominate their day’s opponent. He says: “bringing laurels at the end of the three days four-nation tournament to his country remains the top agenda of the 34-man Sierra Leone delegations currently in the Liberian capital of Monrovia.” After holding a training session on Wednesday at the same venue where the match will take place, Coach Koroma told Tejan Fredickson Fatorma, the media officer attached that there are no injury worries the 21-man squad he has assembled for the tournament. Other opponents the Sierra Leonean lads will have to battle in the tournament are Senegal and host Liberia. However, the top two nations to secure the most wins from their respective three games in the group of four will proceed to the grand final while there bottom two will compete for...