Economy & Business

Sierra Leone’s mining revenue policy in focus

Teddy Foday-Musa: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2013: Reports of the suspension of Sierra Leone by the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) Board, was greeted with disappointment and dissatisfaction by the people of Sierra Leone as well as the Government. The decision was made, “following the submission of Sierra Leone’s [Read More]

Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Sierra Leone: Getting our priorities right

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 September 2013 Faced with the stark choice of the interests of the nation and the preservation of party political advantage, every government with an eye on the electoral annihilation of its opponents, often think politics first, with absolutely no thought for the [Read More]

Editorial

A national culture of neglect is holding back Sierra Leone’s development

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 August 2013 Sierra Leone’s development and progress has been invariably held back by its dilapidated and unfit for purpose infrastructure, many of which are relics of a bygone age. But the fact that some of them were built over a century ago is not at [Read More]

News in Perspective

Sierra Leone’s ruling APC party gone communist

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2013 As Sierra Leone moves closer to China, many in the country are now questioning the motive and rationale of the ruling All People’s Congress Party (APC), in strengthening its relationship with the Communist Party of China, at a time when most countries of [Read More]