22 February 2012 Sierra Leone’s former Head of State – Julius Maada Bio, and now presidential candidate for the opposition SLPP in the forthcoming elections taking place in November, is making tremendous headway in presenting himself and his party as the president and government in waiting. He is calling for [Read More]
20 February 2012 With elections in Sierra Leone just nine months away, already there are anxieties and fears of looming violence and electoral fraud, which many say makes a mockery of democracy and the need for elections. Some in Sierra Leone are even calling for the formation of a government [Read More]
Austin Thomas 18 February 2012 Sierra Leone will soon be celebrating its 51 years of independence, yet good governance, democracy and development are as elusive as the civil liberty that many other countries take so much for granted. Despite vast mineral and other natural resources, we have experienced nothing else [Read More]
Alpha Kawusu 15 February 2012 Sierra Leone’s overly-centralized system of political and economic governance is partly responsible for the country’s stunted political growth and endemic poverty. Not only has centralized and bureaucratic statism failed to deliver on political stability and sustained economic growth, but it has also fostered the emergence [Read More]
13 February 2012 The global economic decline which started in 2007 is having a huge impact on world trade and financial investments. But for Sub-sahara African countries such as Sierra Leone, the human costs of the global economic downturn, added to the perennial problems of corruption and poor governance, demands [Read More]
Austin Thomas 11 February 2012 Sierra Leone’s economic tragedy is not that we are poor; the tragedy is that we lack a ruling class that is committed to overcoming our state of poverty. Real politics here has little to do with social and economic reconstruction. The observation of the assassinated [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 February 2012: With African leaders now calling for a continental free trade area by 2017 to boost trade within the continent, a new World Bank report shows how African countries are losing out on billions of dollars in potential trade earnings every year. This is because [Read More]
Dr. Lansana Gberie 8 February 2012 The announcement that Michael von der Schulenburg, the charismatic Executive Representative of the UN Secretary General and head of the UNIPSIL, has been withdrawn from Sierra Leone did not come as much of a surprise to anyone who has been following the vicious attacks [Read More]
8 February 2012 A series of press statements issued by the opposition SLPP in the last few days, have provoked a bitter response from the ruling APC party and government, who are now threatening Court action against the SLPP. They are accusing the opposition SLPP of “seditious libel”. Yesterday’s heated [Read More]
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