Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2012: In the wake of disturbing violence and rioting, which led to the shooting of two unarmed youths in the eastern district of Freetown last Tuesday, a political row is said to have erupted between the senior officers of the police force and key government [Read More]
8 June 2012 The eastern district of Freetown remained tense yesterday, Thursday, after two nights of stand-off between an heavily armed police and local community youths, following the killing of two unarmed young men on Tuesday, 5 June. According to reports, rioting and violence erupted in the densely populated area of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2012: The crucial debate initiated by the series of articles published by the Sierra Leone Telegraph on the state of Sierra Leone’s civil service, received a significant boost last week. The World Bank announced that it has decided to provide a whopping $17 Million funding to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2012 When the African Development Bank – Africa’s premier bank for investment in the development of infrastructure and industrialisation, announced the launch of its 2012 Report on the continent’s economic progress last week in Arusha, Tanzania, few expected the flurry of initiatives that came pouring [Read More]
1 June 2012 Japan’s Senior Vice Minister of Finance, Yukihisa Fujita, announced on the 30th May, 2012, at the African Development Bank’s (AfDB) Annual Meeting, the Japanese government’s intention to provide another $1 Billion, over the next five years for a second phase of the Enhanced Private Sector Assistance (EPSA) [Read More]
John Pa Baimba Sesay – Information Attaché, China 1 June 2012 Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China has commenced talks with the China-Africa Development Fund (CADFund). The discussions will explore potential investment opportunities in Sierra Leone. With representative offices in four African countries – South Africa, Ethiopia, [Read More]
31 May 2012 Despite enjoying a majority party support, there are few APC stalwarts in the wells of Sierra Leone’s parliament, whose staunch and unwavering loyalty to president Koroma, can be compared to that of the Deputy Speaker – Victor Chukuma Johnson. And although he was once labelled as president Koroma’s ‘bogeyman’ [Read More]
31 May 2012 When those in power, responsible for ensuring that the system of checks and balances in society are adhered to, regulations, legislations and standards are followed to the letter, choose instead to turn a blind eye and renege on their responsibility, the result is chaos, impunity and rampant [Read More]
30 May 2012 Worldwide reaction to the sentencing today of former Liberian warlord – Charles Taylor, by the Special Court sitting at The Hague, has been swift. Mr. Ian Hughes, the British High Commissioner in Sierra Leone had this to say: This morning Mr Justice Lussick, the Presiding Judge in [Read More]
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