30 May 2012 Worldwide reaction to the sentencing today of former Liberian warlord – Charles Taylor, by the Special Court sitting at The Hague, has been swift. Mr. Ian Hughes, the British High Commissioner in Sierra Leone had this to say: This morning Mr Justice Lussick, the Presiding Judge in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2012: Former president of Liberia and notorious warlord in the West African sub-region, has this morning received a whopping 50 years prison sentence, passed by the Trial Chamber at The Hague. He was found guilty last month of aiding and abetting the murderous RUF and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 May 2012 The African Development Bank (AfDB) yesterday, Monday, 28 May, in Arusha – Tanzania, launched its ‘African Economic Outlook (AEO)’ Report, in collaboration with the OECD Development Centre, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), says the [Read More]
25 May 2012 The debate as to when and how it all went wrong for Sierra Leone’s once thriving and highly acclaimed public sector, cannot be pursued without reference to the country’s history, in particular its political development. Although the debate is usually highly polarized and tainted by partisan politics, [Read More]
24 May 2012 The deplorable performance of Sierra Leone’s public sector is unlikely to become one of the hot issues certain to get to the top of the political agenda as the polls draw closer, nor is it like to exercise the minds of the electorate on 17th November. It [Read More]
22 May 2012 Top of the agenda at the G8 summit of world leaders held in the USA, is the thorny issue of Africa’s food crisis, and the emergence of a plethora of initiatives designed to help poor countries grow more food for domestic consumption. But investment in food farming [Read More]
22 May 2012 Although average Gross Domestic Product (GDP) across the African continent has improved slightly in the last five years, yet poverty and hunger continues to blight communities. The impact of the global economic downturn on the ability of Africa to become not only food sufficient, but a major [Read More]
21 May 2012 The people of Sierra Leone will go to the polls in November to elect a new president, or endorse the five year performance of the incumbent – president Koroma. But in the meantime, in July, another unique competition will be staged in London, when thousands of competitors [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 May 2012: After a brutal civil war, which brought total destruction to Sierra Leone’s governance and civil society infrastructures, the collapse of the rule of Law and the emergence of mob justice, the long and hard road to rebuilding the country continues. Hundreds of Millions of Dollars [Read More]
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