7 September, 2012 The war crimes trial of Liberia’s warlord – Charles Taylor, who was early this year sentenced at The Hague for crimes against humanity – committed in Sierra Leone, has also netted four other convicted senior former rebel soldiers, who have been accused of tampering with witnesses during [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2012 In the news this week, the world’s leading computer and smart phone technology company – Apple, won its legal battle in the US against Samsung for infringement of patent rights, involving its IPad tablet computing technology. Samsung may have to pay Billions of Dollars [Read More]
Alhaji Kallon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2012: During the inauguration of President Koroma in late 2007, the organisers of the show and the newly elected president Koroma, did not allow President Kabba to read his handing over notes. Was this action of the APC due to the fact that they [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 6 September 2012 In the early 1970s, President Siaka Stevens did not have a resident minister in any of the three regional headquarters. The Provincial Secretary was both the most senior civil servant and representative of the President who reported to him, through the Permanent Secretary in [Read More]
4 September 2012 “We have transferred billions of Leones to the Kenema city and district council to develop Kenema,” president Koroma said during the opening of the much publicised new Kenema shopping centre last Friday. He was responding to accusations that his government has done very little to invest and [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2012: Kenema and Bo are two eastern and southern cities of Sierra Leone that have been deprived of much needed public funds by president Koroma’s government, in its latest round of local council decentralisation cash transfers, while northern cities and towns get the [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 1 September 2012 President Koroma recently lampooned the opposition SLPP’s declared manifesto offering – a ‘New Direction for Sierra Leone’ and its policy objectives as nothing, but a set of theories that cannot be taken seriously by the electorate. He was wrong and November 17 will bear [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 August 2012: “Sierra Leone’s councils face collapse under the weight of expectation; and six years since the return of local government many councillors and citizens don’t know how they work”, says a Report conducted for the British Department for International Development in May 2011. Rising poverty [Read More]
Ernest Smith 30 August 2012 As President Koroma remains unmoved by the latest cash for political favour scandal, his Vice President is hoping that the fiasco would go away soon. But international publicity intensifies. In the latest issue of Africa Confidential – the world’s leading fortnightly bulletin on African politics, [Read More]
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