The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2013 The headline – “Sierra Leone Begs for $3.5 billion for energy sector” published last week in the international press – Petroleum Africa, makes for very grim reading, though not surprising. Three years ago, the American energy corporation – Joule, estimated the cost of [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2013 I am aware that avid readers of my musings would often wonder why I am always lamenting the sorry state of affairs in Sierra Leone and its governance. Some would argue and correctly too, that there are several positive developments [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 August 2013 Sierra Leone has one of the highest youth unemployment rates in sub-saharan Africa. Despite the implementation of various initiatives costing millions of dollars, aimed at the rehabilitation and training of young people into employment, unemployment in Sierra Leone remains intractably high, at over [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 July 2013: The people of Zimbabwe go to the polls today. They will either decide they no longer want Robert Mugabe’s continuing dominance of the political scene, or endorse his economic and social agenda for moving Zimbabwe forward. But will they be able to exercise that [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 July 2013 It is well over a year since Maada Bio – Sierra Leone’s main opposition presidential candidate for the 2012 elections, spoke at Chatham House in London, in preparation for those elections. Whilst in London last year, Maada Bio met international industrialists, politicians and [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2013 Just over a year ago, the Vice President of Sierra Leone – Chief Sam Sumana, almost single-handedly could have wrecked president Koroma’s chances of being re-elected, in his bid for a second term in office. The Vice President was caught up in one of [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2013 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is on record for almost a year, promising to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to help develop and harness Sierra Leone’s ailing tourism industry, agriculture and fishing sectors. The clock is ticking fast in Sierra Leone, as [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 July 2013 I think one must be several sandwiches short of a picnic to buy into the horribly unspecific mantra that is the ‘Agenda for Prosperity’, as it is currently being touted. Eating the future in the present and promoting money-guzzling projects [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2013 There is an old saying: ‘The cream always rises to the top’. Barely a month after Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara honored him with the Commander of the National Order of Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone’s rising star – Dr. Kandeh Yumkella has [Read More]
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