Benjamin Talton Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2016 A Donald Trump presidency has grave implications for US relations with Africa. His meteoric political ascension ushers in an era of right-wing domestic extremism and international disregard. Trump has exhibited an unabashed lack of interest in Africa. This is a continent where numerous [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2017 The growing sense of disillusionment across Sierra Leone’s social and political landscape is fast becoming palpable. From official to unofficial, private to public, and all along the diversified strata of our society, there are pockets of dissatisfaction that is slowly simmering under [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2016 Any society which neglects its culture is bound to fail. African societies were founded on the principles of society cohesion, where the left hand knew what the right was doing. With kingdoms, Chieftains, fiefdoms and clans, historians would have you believe that [Read More]
Albert Momoh Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2016 As the results of the crucial constituency elections come flying in, amidst a thickening cloud of ‘camp-ish’ recriminations, the rhetoric keep rocketing high where goodwill should have taken firmer grip and served as a safe landing platform to cool down frayed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 November 2016 A twenty-three year old female student – Theresa Mbomaya, was last weekend arrested and detained at the maximum security prison in Freetown, for sharing a WhatsApp message she herself did not create. According to the Koroma government, she committed a crime against the state, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 November 2016 IMF conditionalities have returned to Sierra Leone with a vengeance; or have they? Many in Sierra Leone are saying that the current economic downturn and austerity being imposed upon the poor people of Sierra Leone by the Koroma government, are the result of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2016 Dear Commissioner Ady Macauley I’m writing on behalf of the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI), to respectfully request that the Anti-Corruption Commission Sierra Leone (ACC-SL) begin an investigation into the Sierra Leone Parliament, for some potentially illegal practices and misappropriation of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2016 The American people have spoken. They have chosen their new president, amidst massive anxiety and fear of what this change could mean, not only for the people of America, but for the entire world. They have on Tuesday, the 8th of November 2016, chosen [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 November 2016 Members and supporters of Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP) UK and Ireland branch, celebrated the party’s 65th anniversary last Saturday, 5th November 2016. More than 300 people attended the dinner dance, which was held at the Dalston [Read More]
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