The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 November 2013 Leaders of West Africa’s financial institutions, policy makers and economic development ministers were in Accra, Ghana on the 28th October, 2013, where they discussed the mobilisation of new sources of financing, particularly for infrastructure development. (Photo: Ghana’s President Mahama). Africa is at a [Read More]
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]
Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2013 When I was a child growing up in Sierra Leone, sometimes I studied by the candlelight. When our mothers cook in the kitchen using firewood or charcoal they carried us on their backs. That tradition continues today. Sometimes, we [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]
Yusuf Keketoma Sandi: The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 November 2013: Marriage is an institution blessed by all religions. According to the Bible Proverbs 18:22; “He who finds a wife, finds a good thing and obtains favour of the Lord”. That same message is mentioned in the Quran Chapter 30:21: “And among [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]
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