The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 January 2014 In July last year, the World Bank signed a $16 million project financing agreement with the government of Sierra Leone. It said that: “The project will contribute to improving access to electricity in rural areas, through a pilot program for installing PV systems [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 January 2014 Musicians in Sierra Leone of all political persuasions are now rallying the voice of the people to stand up for change, in the face of rising poverty and joblessness. Sierra Leone is now at a crossroads. The government says that it is doing [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 January 2014 A government that does not respect press freedom cares very little about the civil liberty and human rights of its people. President Koroma of Sierra Leone is now displaying all the hallmarks of a communist style despot. (Photo: Former rebel leader – Johnny [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 January 2014 There seems to be a rare outbreak of sanity rearing its head in Sierra Leone, where years of gorging on a diet of cheap ethno-religious politics, has clogged all the arteries of our society. But by chance, the most significant [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 January 2014 Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), came close to annihilating itself last year, following its defeat at the polls in 2012 and the leadership battle that enraged within its senior rank. The argument and rancour which erupted, [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 January 2014 If the saying ‘never burn your bridges, for you do not know whether you will need them to return’ is ever so true, Thursday’s meeting of political party leaders at State House – courtesy of president Koroma, tells you why. But is this [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 January 2014 Many Sierra Leoneans are wondering and concerned about the whereabouts and fate of the crew of the local passenger boat, which was struck by a foreign vessel hired by a mining company on the 28th December 2013. Dozens of people including children travelling [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2014 January 6th will always be remembered by Sierra Leoneans old enough to have experienced the worst forms of brutality, that humans are capable of inflicting on their own. For it was on the 6th January 1999, that rebels made up of Foday Sankoh’s [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 January 2014 From the evidence that litters the place, what has emerged is that alas, our lofty dreams at independence were taken over and re-written for the razzmatazz of cinematography, by actors who pretended to be leaders. And all we could do [Read More]
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