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Sierra Leone’s musicians unite

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2013 Top musicians in Sierra Leone have not only vowed to bury the hatchet after a series of gang-style violence in the capital Freetown, but are now getting into the recording studio to record an album that will reflect the true spirit of brotherly [Read More]

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Six years prevalence of opposition mendacity

John Baimba Sesay The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2013 I read with extreme curiosity, a recent press release released by the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party, about the performance of President Ernest Bai Koroma and his government in the last six years. The assessment looked at government’s performance [Read More]

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Opposition SLPP lambasts government’s six wasted years

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2013 Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has called into serious question, the government’s management of the economy and the poor delivery of it’s so called Agenda for Change. The government’s celebration of six years in office this [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s troubled media – the oligarchs hit back

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 November 2013 Sierra Leone’s brave and embattled media is now facing serious financial meltdown, if the country’s ruling class is to have its wish granted by the courts, following a series of criminal libel lawsuits. And just when you think that the country’s media had [Read More]

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Are we preordained to be poor? Dr. Kandeh Yumkella ponders

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2013 Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella – Special Representative of the UN Secretary- General  and Chief Executive of Sustainable Energy for All, will be speaking today at the 60th anniversary of Christ the King College, in Bo, Sierra Leone. In the fast moving global debate [Read More]

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Former minister – Abdulai Conteh – says NO to Constitutional faux pas

The Sierra Leone Telegraph – 23 November 2013 President Koroma has been accused of making several policy blunders since coming to office in 2007 – though not surprisingly, but his decision to ‘dumb-down’ the qualifications for Speaker of the country’s parliament, goes beyond the pale of political ignorance. Some would [Read More]

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For mothers and babies light means life

Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2013 When I was a child growing up in Sierra Leone, sometimes I studied by the candlelight. When our mothers cook in the kitchen using firewood or charcoal they carried us on their backs. That tradition continues today. Sometimes, we [Read More]