John Baimba Sesay-Freetown Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2015 Sierra Leone’s Vice President, Ambassador Victor Bockarie Foh on Friday, 12 June, said that the Government of President Ernest Bai Koroma gives great prominence to the issue of women empowerment and gender equality, as could be seen in Pillar 8 of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2015 The long awaited parliamentary report into the missing $14 million Ebola funds, that was last Thursday presented to parliament by committee chairman Chernor Bah, is nothing but a whitewash and a travesty of justice. The publication of this report follows the strong criticisms and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2015 In less than ten weeks, Dr Kandeh Yumkella will be leaving the United Nations to return to his native Sierra Leone, to help the country in its post-Ebola recovery. This is certainly going to be a national challenge for which, president Koroma will be [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2015: After last week’s massive fines levied against several local newspapers in Sierra Leone for violation of the country’s media laws, a High Court appeal by lawyers representing a local newspaper – the Independent Observer, ruled last Friday, 5th June, that whilst the decision by [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2015 After months of violence and growing political and social instability in Burundi, caused by the decision of the president to seek a third term re-election into office, which has seen the death of over one hundred civilians and the assassination of an opposition leader, [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 June 2015 Since the beginning of this year, the focus of my musing has been the necessity for a change of the socio-political system, that has continued to keep Sierra Leone in shackles and turned it into one of those places, where [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2015 On Wednesday, 27th May 2015, the Pan African Parliament (PAP), which many in the continent regard as a useless and toothless bloated bulldog, elected the minority leader of Sierra Leone’s parliament – Bernadette Lahai of the opposition SLPP as its vice president. To do [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 June 2015 No. I’m not talking about the faux grandeur or charade (take your pick) that’s been on display from political thespians suffering from serious foot-in-the-mouth, since we went for each other’s jugular over two decades ago and especially, in the last eight [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 May 2015 The campaign bells are silent and the town criers have all gone home. Now its time for a reality check and search for an answer as to why Sierra Leone’s foreign minister Samura Kamara, failed to convince the Board of the African Development Bank [Read More]
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