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Month: August 2017

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Sierra Leone says goodbye to over 300 flood disaster victims as president Koroma weeps

August 19, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2017 Few in Sierra Leone and across the world, could hold back their tears on Thursday, 17th August, 2017 as hundreds of those killed by the landslide which took place in Freetown on the 13th and 14th of August were taken to their final place [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone presidential hopeful John Sisay denies bribery and corruption allegations

August 19, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2017 The leading contender for the ruling APC party’s 2018 presidential race – Mr John Bonoh Sisay is today denying serious allegations of bribery and corruption published this week. According to the publication, a secret inquiry by listed Australian miner Iluka Resources has embroiled Sisay, [Read More]

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The gods are not to blame – an ode to the Freetown flood victims

August 19, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2017 With fist of fury, clenched in despair, I raised my hands to heaven in supplication. With teary eyes and swollen cheeks, we ask for divine explanation. In cries of abandonment, for what has befallen us, in our time of need. In a [Read More]

Politics & Law

Creole marginalisation – taboo subject faced head on in Sierra Leone

August 18, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 30

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 August 2017  This article was first published by the Sierra Leone Telegraph exactly five years ago, on the 16th of August 2012 to be precise. Here we are on the 18th of August 2017, mourning the death of over 350 people after a massive landslide on [Read More]

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The Freetown Flood Disaster Emergency Appeal

August 18, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 August 2017 The Sierra Leone Telegraph has launched an Emergency Appeal to raise at least £50,000 to help victims of the flood disaster which took place on the 13th and 14th of August 2017 in Freetown.  So far – in just four days, we have raised [Read More]

Education and Health

Sierra Leone – living from tragedy to tragedy

August 17, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Joseph Kaifala Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2017 We live from tragedy to tragedy, surviving on strings of misery, but all I hear are prayers, even when God has nothing to do with our suffering. The same leaders who fail us are the ones who encourage us to pray, so [Read More]

Education and Health

Sierra Leone – cholera another disaster waiting to happen   

August 17, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Moses Moore Jr Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2017 Sugary Mount Sugar Loaf is all sour and pale. The diarrhoea that caught the sweet Mount days ago has left it anaemic. The fatal frequenting of mud and rocks devastated the whole immune system of the mount, exposed it to harsh [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Regent disaster forebodings of Dr Banya and the engineers

August 16, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Andrew Keili Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2017 One thing you cannot fault my dear Uncle “Puawui” on is his brains and his passion for what he believes in. The good old Doctor, now in the twilight years of his eventful life also happens to be an avid environmentalist who [Read More]

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Sierra Leone – nemesis – oh nemesis

August 15, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Puawui – Dr. Sama Banya Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2017 Just before the publication of my autobiography “Looking back – My Life And Times” I stopped writing; I stopped active political activities except that I would go to SLPP headquarters and pour libation to the founding Fathers and past [Read More]

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