Andrew Murphy 28 September 2012 This ‘tit for tat’ switch-over or cross-carpeting, does not engender a polity of cohesion, but plays out into moral decadence. It is nothing but sheer greed and a gross lack of foresight for one to abandon his founding moral principles, for gimmicky political games. Although political switch-over [Read More]
27 September 2012 The African Development Bank (AfDB) has proposed plans to float Africa’s first infrastructure bonds to member nations. It will raise up to $22 billion for investments in much needed infrastructure projects such as ports, railways, roads and energy, across the African continent. This brings to reality an [Read More]
20 September, 2012 Latest report from the African Press Organization (APO) says that with cholera cases now reported in all 13 districts of Sierra Leone, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) have launched an emergency appeal to help contain the spread of the disease within [Read More]
20 September, 2012 The killing of a young woman by police in the northern town of Bumbuna in Sierra Leone early this year, had attracted widespread condemnation and anger. Several people were injured and properties destroyed. She and hundreds of local people had joined local mining workers in protest against [Read More]
17 September 2012 In November, US president Obama will go to the American people to seek a mandate for a second term in office. Whilst confidence of his stay at the White House after the elections may be high among voters in America, in Africa there is mixed emotion as [Read More]
17 September 2012 The recent passing of a law in Sierra Leone legalising the ownership and use of arms and weapons by individuals, has been widely condemned, especially following the government’s importation of $5 million of military grade weapons, many of which, critics believe could be used to wage political [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto 9 September 2012 As far as Africa is concerned, prizes don’t come any bigger and challenging than this – the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) Literary prize for writers of Nigerian descent, based both at home and abroad. Currently in its ninth anniversary, The Nigeria Prize for Literature [Read More]
7 September, 2012 The war crimes trial of Liberia’s warlord – Charles Taylor, who was early this year sentenced at The Hague for crimes against humanity – committed in Sierra Leone, has also netted four other convicted senior former rebel soldiers, who have been accused of tampering with witnesses during [Read More]
7 August 2012 As the political row continues in Sierra Leone over the unilateral and possibly unconstitutional decision of the country’s National Electoral Commission to raise the nomination fees for the forthcoming November’s elections, the National Election Watch (NEW), has added its voice – denouncing the decision. The National Election [Read More]
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