5 February 2013 The increasing systemic failure of the criminal justice establishment in Sierra Leone to protect against human rights abuses, epitomises the appalling level of lawlessness and break down of law and order in the country. Impunity and the abuse of human rights may not be officially sanctioned by [Read More]
3 February 2013 For many families in countries such as Sierra Leone, monies received from their loved ones overseas, provide the cushion that saves them from falling below the poverty-line. And as the global recession continues to affect employment opportunities overseas, the incomes of millions of African migrant workers continue [Read More]
1 February 2013 David Cameron, the UK prime minister and leader of the British Conservative and Liberal Democrats coalition, is on his maiden visit to West Africa, since elected to office in 2010. He is in Liberia, where he is chairing a UN High-Level Panel meeting on poverty. He will [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 February 2013: The World Bank has announced that Cameroon’s economy grew by 5% in 2012, after rising about 4 percent in 2011. Agriculture, construction, and the service industries are responsible for fuelling this growth, together with a significant rise in oil production. However, this economic growth has not improved [Read More]
31 January 2013 African leaders, led by Liberia’s president – Helen Sirleaf Johnson, are climbing a steep hill to raise much needed funds in order to tackle rising childhood mortality, especially caused by malaria and other deadly diseases. They are trying to raise over $3 billion. But that task has [Read More]
28 January 2013 The Chief Executive Officer of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) – Dr Ibrahim Mayaki, has presented the Agency’s Results-based Activity Report of July to December 2012, at the AU heads of state summit in Addis Ababa. He highlighted effort for sustaining the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture [Read More]
25 January 2013 Report from the Sierra Leone Embassy staff in Ethiopia, says that foreign minister – Samura Kamara has held bilateral discussions on the fringes of the AU Executive Council meeting with the Indian delegation, which is led by the Vice-Minister of External Affairs – Sudhid Vyas. Mr. Vyas [Read More]
25 January 2013 The former health minister of Sierra Leone – Mrs. Zainab Hawa Bangura, who resigned last year from the Koroma government to take up her post at the UN as ‘Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Sexual Violence in Conflict’, was at the AU Executive Council meeting on [Read More]
24 January 2013 Abdul M Fatoma We at the Campaign for Human Rights and Development – Sierra Leone (CHRDSL), are deeply concerned about the revelations contained in the recent Audit Report 2011 of the Audit Service Sierra Leone, which was presented to a well attended houses of parliament in Freetown. [Read More]
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