Editorial

What a ratty state of affairs?

Mohamed Kunowah Kiellow The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2013 Two Journalists are in police custody for allegedly hurling abuse at the president of Sierra Leone. They will face trial because they wrote that our President is ‘behaving like a rat’. This action by the government has raised hue and [Read More]

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‘There should be limits to ineptitude, graft and sheer impunity’

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2013 Intentions, even the best of them, do not necessarily guarantee success. Our politics continues to thrive on the thickening stench of falsehood. The unintended consequences of spin, showing that we are making tremendous progress, is the continued elongation of the [Read More]

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Has the SLPP started to regain lost electoral fortunes?

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2013 Since losing the general and presidential elections in 2012, Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has been struggling to regain its broken spirit, as internecine wars threatened to split the party. And after losing its Supreme Court [Read More]

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Gender equality in Sierra Leone is an economic imperative

Zainab Tunkara Clarkson The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 September 2013 Women in Sierra Leone face all sorts of obstacles when it comes to setting up their own business. A combination of cultural prejudices and harsh economic realities join hands, in making life particularly difficult for our ladies. (Photo: Market women [Read More]

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Has president Koroma’s agenda failed?

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2013 Despite intense attempts by ministers and media handlers of the Koroma government to present Sierra Leone as a country that is fast moving forward economically, the reality on the ground proves otherwise. Poverty is rising as joblessness and falling standards of living continue [Read More]

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Sierra Leone: Waste management challenges

Zainab Tunkara Clarkson The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2013 As the urban population of Freetown grows to an estimated 1.2 million people, so too are the burden associated with waste management. This is due to a combination of  factors, including, but not limited to the absence of a tough [Read More]

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Is the Sierra Leone Embassy in China a criminal syndicate? – A rejoinder

John Baimba Sesay – China The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2013 I read with great interest an article written by one ‘Sorie Bobson Evans’, touching on the Sierra Leone Embassy in the People’s Republic of China, now parading SLPP cyber discussion groups. (Photo: Ambassador Foh). Firstly; an attack on [Read More]