Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: Corruption affects a government’s ability to get projects completed and stops its ability to transfer resources to people. A fertile environment is created for corruption when budgeting is done in secret. There is a huge amount of secrecy around the budgeting process at every [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 January 2019: After yesterday’s launch of the Commissions of Inquiry into alleged corruption and mismanagement by former ministers and senior public officials in the previous APC government, led by president Ernest Bai Koroma, there have been mixed views and reactions this morning, not least from the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2019: Today president Julius Maada Bio issued a strong warning to those who would be called before the Commission of Inquiry to cooperate with the Judges. He said: “Let me end by reiterating that all those who will be invited by the Commissions of Inquiry [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2019: Executives of Sierra Leone’s main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) will this afternoon hold a press conference at their party’s offices in Brookfields, Freetown, in response to the launch today, of the Commissions of Inquiry into corruption and mismanagement by former ministers and senior [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 January 2019: The three learned judges that will chair Sierra Leone’s Commissions of Inquiry into alleged corruption, abuse of office and misdemeanours by ministers and senior public officials in the former APC government led by president Ernest Bai Koroma – dubbed the people’s commissions of inquiry, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2019: According to latest report by BBC’s Umaru Fofana, Sahn Malen in the Pujenhun district of Sierra Leone where the palm oil producer – Socfin is located, has become a ghost town as local people flee for their lives, after the death of two young [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2019: The long-awaited Commission of Enquiry in Sierra Leone is due to commence tomorrow Tuesday, 29 January 2019, and this is against the backdrop of accusations and counter-accusations that have dogged the whole process since its inception. In spite of the variances in [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2019: The gunshots started raining down the streets of Harare on 14th November 2017, and by the 21st, Emmerson Mnangagwa, the then former Vice President and former trench mate of Robert Mugabe made his first intervention by calling on his former boss to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2019: The argument isn’t whether African democracies are better than those in the West. It’s simply that the idea of “real” and “not yet real” democracies expresses a colonial mentality – not reality, writes Steven Friedman in theconversation.com. This is Steven Friedman’s analysis: One day, [Read More]
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