Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2015 Dr. Fuambai Sia Ahmadu’s (Photo) article about so called FGM published here, was always going to be highly controversial and thought provoking. But this is nothing new for Sierra Leone’s most formidable African women empowerment advocate and champion. Almost single-handedly taking on the rich [Read More]
Fuambai Sia Ahmadu, PhD (Editor in-Chief and Publisher – SiA Magazine) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2015 A couple of weeks or so ago Reverend Kabs Kanu’s Cocorioko, published a cover picture of some random, recycled internet image of a presumably African woman – her arms flailing and she is [Read More]
Ecoma Alaga and Ndidi Anyaegbunam Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2015 At this year’s annual summit of the African Union, attending leaders declared 2015 the Year of Women’s Empowerment, in acknowledgement of the increasing role women are playing in Africa’s development. (Photo: Market women protesting in Freetown). The declaration comes [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2015 A few weeks after she was sworn in as Malawi’s first female president, Joyce Banda (Photo: Left – with Sirleaf) travelled to Liberia in late April 2012 to meet President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who has occupied Liberia’s highest office since January 2006. [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay-Freetown Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2015 Sierra Leone’s Vice President, Ambassador Victor Bockarie Foh on Friday, 12 June, said that the Government of President Ernest Bai Koroma gives great prominence to the issue of women empowerment and gender equality, as could be seen in Pillar 8 of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2015 The long awaited parliamentary report into the missing $14 million Ebola funds, that was last Thursday presented to parliament by committee chairman Chernor Bah, is nothing but a whitewash and a travesty of justice. The publication of this report follows the strong criticisms and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2015 In less than ten weeks, Dr Kandeh Yumkella will be leaving the United Nations to return to his native Sierra Leone, to help the country in its post-Ebola recovery. This is certainly going to be a national challenge for which, president Koroma will be [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2015: After last week’s massive fines levied against several local newspapers in Sierra Leone for violation of the country’s media laws, a High Court appeal by lawyers representing a local newspaper – the Independent Observer, ruled last Friday, 5th June, that whilst the decision by [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2015 After months of violence and growing political and social instability in Burundi, caused by the decision of the president to seek a third term re-election into office, which has seen the death of over one hundred civilians and the assassination of an opposition leader, [Read More]
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