Editorial

Tony O. Elumelu – Founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation, Chairman of Heirs Holdings Limited The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 July 2013 President Obama is creating a new private sector development model for the world to follow. Last week was the first time, in my memory, that a U.S. president came [Read More]

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 July 2013 On the very week that president Obama landed in Africa, president Koroma decided he would visit his Chinese friends.  There is nothing more bizarre than to see a president regarded as one of the best leaders in Africa by president Obama himself just [Read More]

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2013 I am sure that you are aware that a toad does not run in the daytime for nothing. Similarly, you also know that even if a driver is sober, having a horde of screaming drunks in his poda-poda turns that vehicle [Read More]

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2013 I know that years of political expediency have left us chasing the allure of a grand berth in the port of flagship nations. And no doubt, the present government would like to be a fairytale and a quaint historical vignette [Read More]

Dr. Francis I. Dumbuya The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 May 2013 The Timbergate trial has collapsed. The Anti-Corruption Commissioner has failed to successfully prosecute, despite high hopes and expectations of many in Sierra Leone. “Seriously? APC gets vindicated…? You’re kidding me?” This title for an article in any newspaper, describing [Read More]

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 May 2013 The depth of Sierra Leone’s economic growth and development right now, are not signs of a country and an economy destined to duel at the very sharp end of true prosperity in the immediate future – oil or no oil. [Read More]

Elias Bangura The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2013 On 24 May last year, I went to Kailahun with the Peace Project to donate crutches to the disabled. And whilst I was there, the blind also requested we help them with walking canes. We promised to be back with the [Read More]

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 May 2013 Actions it is said have consequences. Plans have implications. Sadly, policy paralysis is leaving many ordinary Sierra Leoneans in the cauldron of agony, as hunger, poverty and economic hardship, caused by the lack of an appropriate and relevant structural transformation [Read More]

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2013 The pervasive fear of violence and intimidation in Zimbabwe’s 2013 elections contradicts political leaders’ rhetorical commitments to peace, and raises concerns that the country may not be ready to go to the polls. Zimbabwe: Election Scenarios, the latest briefing from the International Crisis [Read More]