The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 May 2013: When a king decides to disrobe the king-maker, there are bound to be alarm bells ringing as rumours of treachery and betrayal make their rounds. But, was the unceremonious disrobing of the king-maker a mere act of showing who is in charge of [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2013 There is something disturbing about the way the Koroma led APC government of Sierra Leone makes decisions about spending. And the impact of that decision making process on the country’s parliamentary democracy and the fight against corruption is enormous. When a finance minister [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2013: Ten years of civil war in Sierra Leone took the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, leaving more than 5,000 amputees, whose lives have been shattered. And as evil and terror were unleashed on a population of 5 million, few ever believed that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2013 In November last year, the British Foreign Office announced the appointment of Mr. Peter West, as the new British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone. He has replaced Ian Hughes. Receiving the new High Commissioner at State House this week, president Koroma said: “We aim [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2013: Last Wednesday, 6 March 2013, the Chief Executive of Tony Blair’s Africa Governance Initiative (AGI), resigned from the organisation, after five years of service – driving the former British prime minister’s agenda in Africa. That agenda is fast becoming the subject of serious [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 January 2013: Lawyers for the prosecution and defence in the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor who was convicted of war crimes last year, made their final arguments before the Appeals Chamber at The Hague this week. Report from APO says that the five Judges [Read More]
John Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2012: On the 14th December 2012, President Ernest Koroma delivered a statement at the House of Parliament, on the occasion of the state opening of the first session of the fourth parliament of the second republic of Sierra Leone. Delivering a [Read More]
Alhaji Kallon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2012: During the inauguration of President Koroma in late 2007, the organisers of the show and the newly elected president Koroma, did not allow President Kabba to read his handing over notes. Was this action of the APC due to the fact that they [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 August 2012: “Sierra Leone’s councils face collapse under the weight of expectation; and six years since the return of local government many councillors and citizens don’t know how they work”, says a Report conducted for the British Department for International Development in May 2011. Rising poverty [Read More]
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