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Has Blockchain Fever Died Down In 2018?

YoungUpstarts

This year, blockchain was even used in to power presidential elections for the very first time in Sierra Leone.

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Stress: 3 Ways To Keep it From Killing You

YoungUpstarts

A prisoner, held behind enemy lines in Sierra Leone during the civil war in the late 90’s, he subsisted on very little food, and in the end, just fruit and berries. But thankfully, he survived. Remember, what you focus on increases. That is what we focused on and it helped us minimize any fear and work through the stress.

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Mark Zuckerberg’s year of books: The essential points from Why Nations Fail

The Next Web

Riddle me this: Why has Botswana, a landlocked country in the south of Africa, become one of the fastest-growing countries in the world, while other African nations — Zimbabwe, the Congo and Sierra Leone among them — remain caught in a miasma of violence and poverty? You might chalk it… This story continues at The Next Web.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

The name Mission Lane is derived from my families street address in Bonthe, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Not much overhead and I could learn how to run a business and build a brand without the worries of paying rent. This store is a combination of my love of fashion and giving back to the community.

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Here’s an awesome, heart warming initiative #reimagineatl

Jeff Hilimire

I hope that you will join me in pledging some money to help their current cause focused on Sierra Leone, Africa. If there was ever a place that needed people to help, Sierra Leone is it. Watch this video that the re:imagine kids created to support the cause! Doing Good'

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the world without altgate

Altgate

.   Afganistan Haiti Rwanda Barbados Honduras Saint Kitts and Nevis Benin   Iraq Saint Lucia Bhutan Kazakhstan Samoa   Bosnia & Herzegovina Kiribati   San Marino Burkina Faso Korea, North Seychelles Burundi   (Urundi) Kyrgyzstan             Sierra Leone (..)

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Data Visualization Inspiration: Analysis To Insights To Action, Faster!

Occam's Razor

It also does not include the other countries beyond Liberia and Sierra Leone where we know infections and deaths have occurred. You can see that moving in Aug did have an impact, the black line, reported cases is less worse than it could have been. Even assuming that 12k is a lower number (lots of people don't report the disease).

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