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]
Messeh Kamara 19 September, 2012 As a scholar of law and government, I am disturbed by President Koroma’s action to “subsidize the National Electoral Commission (NEC) nominations fees”. The President’s action is not good for our democracy. It undermines the sovereignty of parliament. His decision is not about the furtherance [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 September 2012: President Koroma has taken much pride in being upheld as an experienced and successful entrepreneur by his supporters and admirers, including former British Prime Minister – Tony Blair. But with eight weeks to presidential election, the president’s economic record in office is now looking [Read More]
17 September 2012 The decision of Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission to raise the nomination fees for the forthcoming elections, had sent alarm bells across the sub-region; sparking fears of political instability, should opposition parties be denied the right to participate on grounds of affordability. The decision to increase the [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]
16 September 2012 When the vice president of Sierra Leone – Sam Sumana called a press conference in Freetown a few weeks ago to deny allegations of impropriety and corruption, many listening to what he had to say, felt that he had not done enough to lay to bed the [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 15 September 2012 Your Excellency, the Thursday, 13 September, 2012, front page of the Awareness times newspaper carried a report of an interview, which its publisher – Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, said you granted her, following the decision at State House on Thursday to return to the 2007 [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 September 2012 The publisher of the Standard Times newspaper is notorious in the profession for his malevolence, character assassination and of course prejudice. He is among the majority of journalists who in recent times have looked at ‘The Truth’ straight in the eye [Read More]
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