25 January 2013 The former health minister of Sierra Leone – Mrs. Zainab Hawa Bangura, who resigned last year from the Koroma government to take up her post at the UN as ‘Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict’, was at the AU Executive Council meeting on [Read More]
24 January 2013 Abdul M Fatoma We at the Campaign for Human Rights and Development – Sierra Leone (CHRDSL), are deeply concerned about the revelations contained in the recent Audit Report 2011 of the Audit Service Sierra Leone, which was presented to a well attended houses of parliament in Freetown. [Read More]
24 January 2013 President Koroma’s discredited former minister of finance and economic development – Dr. Samura Kamara, now minister of foreign affairs, flew to Addis Ababa yesterday, to represent Sierra Leone at the Ordinary Session of the Executive Council of the African Union. But he leaves behind in Freetown, a [Read More]
24 January 2013 Land ownership and the legal right to use that land, can be a highly toxic affair in Africa. In Sierra Leone, there has been a rising trend in the number of murders committed because of land disputes and sheer criminality. But Sierra Leone is not the exception. [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]
22 January 2013 Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is tearing itself apart. The National Secretary-General – Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie is accusing the Chairman – John Oponjo Benjamin of telling “half truth, aimed at misleading members and supporters of the SLPP, as well as [Read More]
21 January 2013 The crisis in Mali is deepening and getting ugly. French troops and the army of neighbouring countries are tightening the noose around the Al-Qaeda sponsored rebel militia in the north of the country. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are said to be trapped in communities controlled by the rebels. [Read More]
21 January 2013 Africa may have weathered the global economic storm fairly well in 2012, but the prognosis is uncertain, as the chilly wind of global industrial stagnation and a slowing down of the Chinese economy continues to bite. Economic growth in Africa has been largely fuelled by large-scale infrastructural [Read More]
19 January 2013 The increasing threat of mutiny in the opposition SLPP, which could – if allowed to continue, destroy the party, appears to have been nipped in the bud by the elected party chairman and leader – John Oponjo Benjamin. He has read out the Riot Act to sections [Read More]
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