Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2016 Much has been said about the current economic disaster facing the people of Sierra Leone. But for many commentators, the signs have been on the wall, even before the Ebola epidemic. The Koroma ruling APC party and government, have been in profound denial, burying [Read More]
Alie Kabba – Presidential aspirant 2018 Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 October 2015 On Monday, 3rd October, 2016, following a hasty cabinet meeting, the APC government issued a State House Press Release unveiling a series of measures that they plan to implement in the hope of managing an increasingly hopeless situation. [Read More]
Jimmy Kandeh and Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 October 2016 When one hangs around any of the entertainment or social joints in urbane Freetown, the buzz word is the current economic hardship and its social impact on an anguished nation. Our current economic woes are man-made. They are [Read More]
Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2016 The month of October 2016 marks 20 years since peace was restored to Sierra Leone. By 1996, half of our population was displaced and farming came to a standstill. As a nation, we recorded negative growth throughout the war years [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – China Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2016 Sierra Leone has had a fair share of commendation for the framework of government’s performance. By 2008 downwards, it had leaned towards promoting socio-economic rights, and simultaneously maintaining macroeconomic stability, with huge investment stepped up in public services, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2016 President Koroma and his ruling APC party ministers, yesterday decided to ditch their 2016 Budget and Spending Plans, after realising that the government’s coffers is now virtually empty. For a government that two weeks ago, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on sending the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2016 Millions of dollars of donor funds granted to parliamentarians in Sierra Leone, cannot be accounted for. Can Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission step into the country’s parliament to demand that elected members whose behaviours are now being called into question, some say dishonourable, must be [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2016 When Brussels Airlines last week informed the Koroma government of Sierra Leone that it may have to stop flying to Freetown if the government fails to address its concerns, there was a strong sense of foreboding that things are going to get worse for [Read More]
SOCIETY for Democratic Initiatives (SDI) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2016 SOCIETY for Democratic Initiatives (SDI) commemorates the Universal Access to Information Day, joining hundreds of organizations around the world. To mark this day, SDI published a report titled ‘The State of Access to Information Law Implementation in Sierra Leone [Read More]
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