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Month: May 2015

News in Perspective

Is the government of Sierra Leone ready to open itself to real scrutiny?

May 17, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2015 In 2011 president Koroma promised to open up his government to real scrutiny through a national website, that will provide access to information about the work of each government department and agency, especially their budgets – spending and programme delivery performance. But four years [Read More]

Education and Health

Diabetes – Sierra Leone’s most deadly enemy

May 16, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 9

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2015 There has been a worrying increase in the incidence of diabetes in Sierra Leone. Doctors are concerned that in addition to Ebola, malaria and other diseases, diabetes is now taking centre stage. They are right to be worried, as it is a chronic, lifelong [Read More]

Editorial

Elections in Burundi – “A moment of truth”

May 16, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2015 The people of Burundi are today staring at the edge of a precipice it once dug itself out of decades ago, when rival tribal factions brought mayhem to the streets, in a civil war that took the lives of over two hundred thousand people. [Read More]

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Let us grasp the nettle to reform our society and political system

May 14, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2015 Compatriots, following the chequered history of our nation, especially in the last two decades, it is my belief that the sooner we face the fact that we have no cojones as a people, and rise up collectively to do something about [Read More]

News in Perspective

Vice president Foh awakens the spirits of ruling APC party founders 

May 14, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

John Baimba Sesay – Freetown Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2015 Sierra Leone’s vice president – Ambassador Victor Bockarie Foh, on Sunday, 10th May, ended a three day long visit to the Tonko Limba Chiefdom, in Madina, headquarter town of the chiefdom, in the Kambia District, where he succeeded in politically [Read More]

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Burundi’s third term seeking president ousted by the military

May 13, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2015 Burundi’s president Nkurunziza has today been overthrown by the country’s military, after weeks of bloodshed and instability in the capital Bujumbura. The bloodless military coup comes, following the ruling two weeks ago of the country’s Constitutional Court upholding the decision of the president to [Read More]

Editorial

‘We do not entertain sacred cows’ – says government Spokesman Bayraytay

May 13, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Dennis Kabatto Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2015   Government of Sierra Leone Spokesman – Bayraytay, is visiting the United States of America and Canada, where he is meeting Sierra Leoneans across the political divide to explain government policies. (Photo: APC New York Chapter Executives meeting Bayraytay). Mr. Bayraytay said [Read More]

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SLPP – a party ready for government must be pragmatic

May 10, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Yusuf Keketoma Sandi Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 May 2015 On Thursday 30th April 1992, in a very passionate address to the nation, a young president of Sierra Leone – Captain Valentine Strasser (photo), had this to say about the APC: “Fellow citizens, for over 23 years we have been misruled [Read More]

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Koroma watches with interest as violence erupts in Burundi over presidential third term

May 9, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 May 2015   Elections in Sierra Leone may be two or three years away, but there is little doubt president Koroma and his ruling APC party, are closely watching developments in Burundi and DR Congo. Both president Nkurunziza of Burundi and Kabila of Congo, are poised [Read More]

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