Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 January 2012: The World Bank today announced the appointment of Makhtar Diop, a Senegalese national, as its new Vice President for Africa. He succeeds Obiageli “Oby” Ezekwesili who will return to Nigeria in early May after serving as the region’s Vice President since 2007. Diop, the [Read More]
17 January 2012 Violence continued throughout Saturday night in the Fourah Bay district of eastern Freetown, following a local council by-election, which left several people seriously injured, including the ruling party’s Lansana Fadika and the winner of the election – opposition SLPP candidate – Mohamed Kanu Mansaray. As though Saturday’s [Read More]
Austin Thomas 17 January 2012 Christmas is over and we are now in the middle of January and as usual, families are going through tough times now, after spending some extras to celebrate the holidays. Those with deeper pockets – like our government officials have no problems in scaling [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – China 16 January 2012 Lu Shaye is the Director-General at the Department of African Affairs of the Foreign Ministry of the People’s Republic of China. During an interview with China Daily newspaper of Thursday, 12th January 2012, he spoke of China’s dedicated interest in cooperating with [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 15 January 2012 Someone once said that; “when you fight corruption, corruption will fight you back”. And that’s what came to mind when I heard about and read the report that a key actor in the Timbergate blockbuster has secured the services of ‘one of the best lawyers [Read More]
Abdul R Thomas – Editor 14 January 2012 Today is a sad day for politics and democracy in Sierra Leone, as ruling APC party stalwarts recover in hospital from serious wounds, sustained during a political rally at a by-election in Eastern Freetown. It is not certain who is responsible for [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 January 2012: The New Partnership for Africa’s development (NEPAD) is an African Union (AU) initiative established at a conference in Lusaka, Zambia in 2001, where African leaders affirmed a common vision and shared conviction, “to eradicate poverty and to place their countries, both individually and collectively, [Read More]
ALPHA KAWUSU Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 January 2012 Growing youth unemployment in Sierra Leone will have a negative impact on voter turnout for the ruling All People’s Congress in November. Although the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party has yet to convince voters that it has a better agenda for the [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 January 2012 The line in the sand has been drawn clearly and irrevocably. Right now a battle is taking shape in our dear country; a veritable contest between those who are profiting from our under-development and tragic state and those whose nostalgia is [Read More]
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