The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 March 2013 The people of Sierra Leone are mourning the death of their former president – Ahmed Tejan Kabba, with the national flag ordered by the government to fly at half-mast for the next seven days. Quite fitting for a former president whom, despite all [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2014 Former president of Sierra Leone – Ahmed Tejan Kabba has died, aged 82. He is reported to have passed away peacefully at his residence in Freetown this afternoon, after a long illness. He is survived by his wife, son and extended family. President [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2014 Since the start of the global recession in 2007, doubts have been expressed as to whether African economies can weather the storm, and the impact the recession could have on the continent’s infrastructure development and growth. Whilst several African countries, especially those economies [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2014 It seems this week’s visit of UN’s Ban Ki Moon to Sierra Leone has opened a new political row, which the World Bank itself cannot resist getting embroiled in, as government and ruling party media attack journalists and critics of the Koroma government [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2014 After years of civil wars, huge economic challenges and the impact of structural adjustments, many West African countries are in desperate need of development strategies that could transform their economies. West African nations are therefore looking primarily at the role [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 March 2014 Sierra Leone’s democracy is coming of age, but there are teething problems, causing nervousness for those that have underwritten much of the financial and material loss suffered – including the UN, after ten years of brutal civil war. The visit of the UN’s [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 March 2014 A week ago, another deadly terrorist attack – fuelled by religious hatred, was launched by Boko Haram at a boarding school in Northern Nigeria, killing 59 young people. And as the world helplessly watches Boko Haram’s deadly assault becoming more audacious, questions are [Read More]
Mohamed Kunowah Kiellow The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2014 There are suspicions that sections of the ruling APC party are egging the president on, to tamper with the country’s constitution, so as to see him through a third term in office. And for many in Sierra Leone, such manipulation [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2014 Controversial debates surrounding the role of the former presidential candidate of the Sierra Leone’s Peoples party (SLPP) – Julius Maada Bio, in the military interregnum which toppled the despotic government of the APC in 1992, are unlikely to end anytime soon. Although most [Read More]
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