Lahai Lawrence Leema Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 May 2016 As we commemorate international press freedom day 2016, the relevance of the press in governance cannot be overemphasized. A viable and potent press in any country triggers transparent and accountable governance. The press helps government to be able to see [Read More]
Mohamed L Kallon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2016 Dear President Koroma You are obliged to listen to the protests and demands of Sierra Leoneans who elected you democratically to represent them, especially in obvious cases when the protests and demands are relevantly appropriate. Now, compare the democracy you practice [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2016 Those defending and maintaining the present and the past, are not the best minds for creating the future. (Photo: School children queuing for water before going to school – if at all). I read someone referring to president Koroma, who, in a thinly disguised [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2016 Continuing our series of articles, discussing the declining economic influence, and to some extent political role of the United States in Africa, today we look at whether and how the US can help vulnerable countries in the continent, to best protect themselves against the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 May 2016 While African countries such as Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Zimbabwe may be receiving huge sums of donor funds and resources from China to help keep their governments afloat, such benevolence does not come cheap. With every single Chinese Yuan, there is a long string [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 May 2016 President Obama is now counting his days at the White House. And so too are the people of Africa counting the economic benefits of having a son of Africa – as the first black president of the world’s most powerful and wealthy nation. Has [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 April 2016 Whilst large numbers of unemployed and disaffected youths and supporters of the Koroma government were drowning their sorrows of poverty and joblessness, by dancing in the streets of Freetown on Independence celebration day, a brutal carnage was being unleashed by the police on members [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 April 2016 All was calm and peaceful at the SLPP party offices yesterday morning it seemed, with party bosses and aspiring candidates for the country’s presidency getting ready to celebrate their party’s anniversary. Among those meeting inside the party offices yesterday were; Chairman and Leader Kapen, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2016 There are reports from Freetown this afternoon of police storming the offices of Sierra Leone’s main opposition SLPP party in Freetown. Eye witness report speaks of live bullets and tears gas being fired. Hundreds of party supporters gathered at the offices to celebrate the [Read More]
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