Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2015 On Wednesday, 27th May 2015, the Pan African Parliament (PAP), which many in the continent regard as a useless and toothless bloated bulldog, elected the minority leader of Sierra Leone’s parliament – Bernadette Lahai of the opposition SLPP as its vice president. To do [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 June 2015 No. I’m not talking about the faux grandeur or charade (take your pick) that’s been on display from political thespians suffering from serious foot-in-the-mouth, since we went for each other’s jugular over two decades ago and especially, in the last eight [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 May 2015 The campaign bells are silent and the town criers have all gone home. Now its time for a reality check and search for an answer as to why Sierra Leone’s foreign minister Samura Kamara, failed to convince the Board of the African Development Bank [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 May 2015: Several newspapers in Sierra Leone have had their knuckles rapped by the country’s Independent Media Commission (IMC), after investigating complaints of breaches of the media code of conduct. But the total sum announced today by the IMC, is far less than the historic [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2015 It was William James who wrote that “we are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone. Every smallest stoke of virtue or vice, leaves its ever-so-little-scar….” With no further comment or rejection coming from the office of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 May 2015 With basic and essential health services strained by the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, the Red Cross is taking steps to help reconnect communities with basic health services. (Photo: Dilapidated admission ward at the Connaught hospital in Freetown at the start of the Ebola [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 May 2015 Burundi’s opposition party leader – Zedi Feruzi has been shot dead alongside his bodyguard in Bujumbura, a leading opposition figure has confirmed to Al Jazeera. Feruzi, whose bloodied body was found in the Ngagara district of Bujumbura on Saturday evening, was the head of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 May 2015 There has been much debate as to why Liberia has successfully got rid of Ebola from its shores, whiles neighbouring Sierra Leone and Guinea – two political bed fellows, are still struggling to make much headway. Yesterday, at the 68th session of the World Health [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2015 One thing is sure, you can suspend, sack or even kill a man, but you can never do the same to truth. And the truth right now is that the APC stinks, the SLPP reeks and the current political class and [Read More]
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