The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2013 If this week’s decision of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is anything to go by, then there is little doubt president Koroma and his ministers have lost the moral argument about their fight against corruption in Sierra Leone, despite media propaganda. The US [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 December 2013 If good leaders are known by the promises they keep, and by the tough and resolute decisions they take, based on an ethos of good governance, then president Koroma is doing himself great disservice by continuing to fail to rise to the occasion [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2013 Leaders of Africa are meeting in Paris, amid global outpouring of grief and sadness over the passing of Nelson Mandela. They are looking for solutions – including military, to ending the civil conflict that is now raging in the Central African Republic (CAR). [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2013 Yesterday, 5th December 2013, Nelson Mandela the freedom fighter and custodian of global political consciousness, who stood up for human dignity, passed away peacefully in South Africa. He was aged 95. Nelson Mandela is more than a political icon for the people of [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2013 The appointment into any democratically elected government, of anyone, directly involved in Sierra Leone’s ten year brutal civil war is bound to be controversial. And last week’s appointment of the former rebel leader – Foday Sankoh’s most senior adviser – Omrie Golley, has [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2013 As the year draws to a close, what comes to me, like the beams from a lighthouse in a dark and merciless sea, is that the house of cards that we in Sierra Leone are building, needs an island of [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2013 Top musicians in Sierra Leone have not only vowed to bury the hatchet after a series of gang-style violence in the capital Freetown, but are now getting into the recording studio to record an album that will reflect the true spirit of brotherly [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2013 I read with extreme curiosity, a recent press release released by the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party, about the performance of President Ernest Bai Koroma and his government in the last six years. The assessment looked at government’s performance [Read More]
Yusuf Keketoma Sandi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2013: The ruling by Sierra Leone’s High Court on the election petition cases for both constituencies 05 and 15, has raised fundamental questions on the application of the law. The outcome of this court ruling appears to have undermined or conflicted with [Read More]
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