The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 April 2014 In an environment of poverty, injustice and lack of political will for reform, Boko Haram’s growing strength and dissemination is increasingly putting local and regional stability at risk. In its latest report, ‘Curbing Violence in Nigeria (II): The Boko Haram Insurgency’, the International [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 April 2014 When president Koroma of Sierra Leone visited Abu Dhabi in January 2014, he held talks with the government of the United Arab Emirates, aimed at exploring economic cooperation between the two nations. Key sectors of the economy of Sierra Leone, such as fishing, [Read More]
Yusuf Keketoma Sandi The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 April 2014 The publication earlier this week by Awareness Times that Julius Maada Bio has claimed to have contributed the sum of $35,000, towards former president Tejan Kabba’s funeral costs, is at best mischievous and at worst preposterous. But it is most [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 April 2014 I would like to preface today’s column by setting the record straight on a small but totally important point. In an otherwise brilliant and flattering introduction to Puawui’s return, a statement is made that needs correction, and I [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 April 2014 The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved support for Sierra Leone’s efforts to create a strong social safety net system, that it says will assist poor and vulnerable households, beginning with a pilot program covering four districts and 12,000 households. When [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2014 The Youth Alliance for Leadership and Development in Africa (YALDA) is excited to announce the inaugural Oxford-Harvard Intercollegiate Model African Union Summit (IMAUS) to be held at the University of Oxford in September 26th – 28th, 2014. IMAUS is a transformative, one-of-a-kind intellectual [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2014 African countries have some of the highest rates of mortality among adults, children, pregnant women and lactating mothers. This is partly caused by poor access to healthcare and cost-effective medicines. But all this is about to change, with the announcement today by Glaxo [Read More]
Yankuba G. Kai-Samba Former Secretary General – SLPP (UK and Ireland) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2014 Only those who want the SLPP to lose the elections in 2018, would call for the party to unite around a man who took them to the worst election defeat in history. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2014: When Sierra Leone’s most formidable and prolific octogenarian political commentator and opposition SLPP party grandee – Dr. Sama Banya – alias Puawui (Photo), announced his retirement from public writing over a year ago, hundreds of thousands of Sierra Leone Telegraph readers were saddened. His [Read More]
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