Albert Momoh Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2016 As the results of the crucial constituency elections come flying in, amidst a thickening cloud of ‘camp-ish’ recriminations, the rhetoric keep rocketing high where goodwill should have taken firmer grip and served as a safe landing platform to cool down frayed [Read More]
Benjamin Eya Kaingbanja Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2016 History has been made in the Gambia as the opposition leader – Adama Barrow received a phone call from the incumbent President Yayah Jammeh (Photo), accepting defeat. Barrow’s electoral victory has brought an end to Jammeh’s 22-year old dictatorship. Many did [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2016 You can’t kill the dead, can you? One of our problems is that having outsourced virtually our very existence to other cultures’ understanding frameworks, our society has now funked, as it slithers down the slope of poverty in both the spiritual [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2016 I was in The Gambia in March this year for a week, visiting my maternal ancestral homeland. The capital Banjul was bustling with human activity. But there was an eerie and uneasy calm, as political tension and media repression stifled free speech and civil [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2016 Dear Chief Kapen, Conduct of Lower Level Elections and the Role and Composition of 10-Man Committee Let me start by thanking your administration for all the efforts made to conduct lower level elections amidst some challenges. I am pleased about the Rules and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2016 Less than 12% of households in Sierra Leone have access to electricity supply, and even less so among the country’s rural poor. But this week’s announcement by the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) and the UK government’s Department for International Development (DFID – [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 December 2016 Sierra Leone’s President Koroma has said, despite the difficulties that the country is faced with, his government will remain focused to its transformation drive and not allowed to be distracted. President Ernest Bai Koroma spoke on Wednesday, 30th November, 2016, at the Sierra Leone [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2016 President Koroma and key ministers are in China this week to appeal directly and personally to the Chinese political leadership, especially president Xi Jinping. They desperately need help – and they need it fast. Sierra Leone is at risk of falling apart, due to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2016 When the executives of the ruling APC party of Sierra Leone last week announced that they were pulling out of the country’s Constitutional review process, it caused consternation among opposition parties and civil society groups. The question many are left asking after their surprised [Read More]
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