The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2013 Many African countries such as Sierra Leone that have embraced an economic growth model, predicated on the need to borrow and spend, may be causing more longterm damage to real and sustainable growth and prosperity. Sierra Leone’s debt, which was written off by [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2013 There have been intense media speculation in the last week, as to whether the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), has indeed made a decision not to offer funding to Sierra Leone, estimated at close to $100 million. Several commentators have written off [Read More]
Pa Baimba Sesay The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2013 The recent fracas in our capital, between students of a secondary school and our police force, calls for a complete retrospect by the police leadership on a range of issues, including recruitment and public relations. In responding to a serious [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 November 2013 Heavily armed police officers have attacked and shot dead an unarmed school boy in the Eastern suburb of Freetown, sparking anger and accusation of yet another police mob justice, brutality and cover up. (Photo: Police Chief Munu) The school boy Alhaji Rabo was [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 November 2013 Many analysts believe that Sierra Leone’s economic development will continue to stumble and stall – notwithstanding recent improvement in GDP, just as long as those in power in Freetown continue to refuse to honestly devolve power to the regions. Current debate about the [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 November 2013 Sierra Leone’s Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Minister, Dr Samura Mathew Kamara on Tuesday 5th November, told staff at the Sierra Leone Embassy in the People’s Republic of China, that though a small country, Sierra Leone is raising its voice [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 November 2013 Several African countries have taken a bold step forward towards meeting their electricity needs. They have embarked on costly construction and management of hydro-electricity dams. (Photo: Sierra Leone’s Bumbuna dam). But few are fully reaping the economic, social and environmental rewards. Some countries [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 November 2013 Africa’s economic development is showing much promise, but there are serious obstacles to progress. While several African countries blessed with natural resources, such as Angola and Ghana are doing fairly well, the challenges to increasing economic prosperity for all, are enormous. Good governance, [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2013 Barely a week has passed since we published “Don’t talk about my potholes stupid”, and no one expected the presidential axe to fall so quickly and so decisively. Latest news from State House is that president Koroma has sacked both his minister of [Read More]
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