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By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  Sierra Leone’s representatives at the CAF Clubs and Champions Cup preliminary rounds qualifiers FC Kallon and Bo Rangers will continue their hunts to the qualifiers next round in Liberia and Algeria this Saturday. In the Liberia capital Monrovia, FC Kallon who collected all three points away last Saturday in Benin from the Buffles de Borgou who they defeated 0-1 will lock horns with the same opponents and a draw of a win for the host will see them advance to the next round of the CAF TotalEnergies Clubs cup preliminary round. On the other hand, reigning Sierra Leone Premier League Champions Bo Rangers Football Club will face CRB in Algeria in the return leg of the CAF TotalEnergies Champions League following their goalless draw at home last Saturday.  And the winner of the encounter will automatically progress to the next round of the continental champions club contest preliminary round.

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  At the Carlton Playing Field this Friday, the Sierra Leone Police Polio Football Team will battle the National Amputees Football team in a warm-up encounter scheduled to kick-off at 4:30pm local time. The friendly encounter Awoko Newspaper have learned is a farewell match to be played in honor of Sierra Leonean International Amputee footballer Foday James Lumeh who’s due to return to his Turkish based football club after his six weeks long off season vacation in his home country. Both sides will be facing each other for the very first time in such a friendly match, and the momentum leading to the anticipated encounter is already high as both sides continues to gear up to look on Friday, 16th September, 2022. (C): Awoko Newspaper - https://awokonewspaper.sl

​By: Alusine Rehme Wilson At the Radio Marie Makeni Conference room, Edna Amie Ngeba, one of the 2022 InterNews Safe Sister Fellows has on Thursday, successfully schooled twenty Female Journalists and Activists in Bombali District on Digital Safety, Online Cyber Harassment and Gender Based Violence. The training according to Madam Ngeba is for rationally selected Activists and Journalists in Makeni city and other parts of Bombali District who will eventually serve as Trainers in their respective institutions and communities in a bid to further share the acquired knowledge from the training, also to raise the awareness of Female Journalists and Activists on digital safety to let them stay safe online at all times. She expressed delights for being one of the 13 Safe Sister/InterNews Fellows who received intensive online training on digital safety for four months and has been able to understand that 68% of Women are either victimized or discriminated against in cyberspace. “Rolling out th...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  John Edward Keister, the Leone Stars of Sierra Leone Head Coach has recalled East End Lions Winger Prince Barrie to his Squad for the nation’s upcoming away friendly matches against South Africa and D.R Congo later this month. Barrie’s inclusion to the squad was announced on Tuesday by the Sierra Leone Football Association as the replacement of Spanish based midfielder Alhassan Koroma who’s reported to have been ruled out due to traveling issues. This means the skillful winger     is returning to the Senior National Men’s A-team of Sierra Leone for the first time since he last represented the Nation last January at the delayed 2021-TotalEnergies AFCON that was hosted in Cameroon. However, the addition of the former Bo Rangers man who doubles as the Assistant Captain of the Leone Stars Team-B has been welcomed by his fans among other football enthusiasts.

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson  A total of thirty youth in Makeni are set to benefit from a seven-weeks long digital literacy course to be offered by Apex Multimedia, a Makeni based growing multimedia agency, Ambassador Alusine Lulu Bangura, the brand’s leader has confirmed. According to him the training is a fulfillment of Apex Multimedia Corporate Social Responsibility and it’s specially designed to help youth that are willing and ready to add digital literacy to their portfolio of skills.  “In collaboration with an expert from the United States of America, we will be hosting free professional film classes on cinematography, editing and screenwriting for seven weeks by the end of September this year for 30 youth, ten each on the respective courses,” Mr. Bangura told AWE-Media.SL . Meanwhile, free of charge application are now open until September 23, and two days later the shortlisted and successful applicants will be interviewed and be orientated to select the best 30 for the cou...

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Mohamed Papa Bangura, the Co-Founder of Access to Education Sierra Leone with supports from Ludovica in Holland and other philanthropic partners have donated school uniform, backpacks, shoes, books, pens and other assorted school items to 40 Orphans in Gbanti Chiefdom, Bombali District in the Northeastern province of Sierra Leone. The donation was done over the week at the Gbati-Chiefdom Community center where the 40 beneficiaries most of whom are school going orphans that lost their parents and guardians to the Ebola virus disease that struck and ravaged lives of Sierra Leoneans in 2014, as part of Access to Education Sierra Leone’s continued educational support to vulnerable children in the chiefdom and Bombali District at large. The excited Beneficiaries thanked Mohamed Papa Bangura and his organizations and partners for their continued support towards their education since 2015 and assured to be more attentive in school to excel at the end of the school yea...