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African trial of Chadian dictator Habré is a landmark against impunity

June 8, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2016 For several decades, the call for the institution of African solutions and justice for African problems and impunity has gone unheeded. But alas, the tide may now be turning. Dictators and despots in Africa have for far too long got away with police brutality, [Read More]

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Sierra Leone government’s obsession with road construction amid growing poverty and rising debt

June 6, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 9

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2016 When a democratically elected government of one of the poorest countries in the world spends over $500 million on infrastructure projects in eight years, leaving millions of people without adequate supply of clean drinking water, electricity and healthcare, one has to wonder what and [Read More]

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Locked out by those preventing change in Sierra Leone’s opposition SLPP

June 5, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 12

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2016 The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has lost the last two general and presidential elections, and from all accounts is destined to remain on the opposition benches in 2018, simply because it is failing to change. With less than two years to go before [Read More]

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Kandeh Yumkella on a marathon regional tour of Sierra Leone

June 3, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 11

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2016 As the opposition SLPP prepares for its forthcoming 2018 presidential candidacy election, presidential hopeful – Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella has taken his message of ‘hope, opportunity and transformation (HOT)’ to the northern and eastern districts of Sierra Leone. This marathon tour followed his recent series [Read More]

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Sierra Leone government condemns political killing in Kenema

May 30, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 10

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2015 The brutal killing of an opposition SLPP supporter last Friday in Sierra Leone, is a grave cause of concern and worry for millions of Sierra Leoneans, whose dream of a politically progressive nation has in the last ten years been tested by the bad [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s future is being lost to greedy and selfish demons

May 30, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2015 You know what? Sierra Leone is not cursed as some would like to believe. It is our mentality to anything Sierra Leone, and our collective antics that are the cause of the warped society and governance that we now have to [Read More]

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An open letter to retired brigadier Julius Maada Bio

May 29, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 10

Yankuba Kai-Samba Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 May 2016 The police force in Sierra Leone should not dismiss the persistent and continuing violence and murders, alleged to have been perpetrated by supporters of the 2012 failed presidential candidate of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), who is now also intending to [Read More]

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Political violence in Sierra Leone? – one man dead

May 28, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 11

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 May 2016 Police in Sierra Leone are investigating the gruesome death of a young man in the south-eastern city of Kenema, which took place yesterday. (Photo: President Koroma receiving political violence investigation report a few years ago from the head of the country’s police). There are [Read More]

Editorial

Kenema prepares big welcome for Alie Kabba

May 27, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Alie Kabba Campaign Team Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 May 2016 Today Saturday, 28th of May, 2016, in the bustling Eastern City of Kenema, Alie Badara Sanjan Kabba will take the stage to formally declare his intention to run for the SLPP flag and, ultimately, President of the Republic of Sierra [Read More]

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