7 February 2012 In 2003 the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), the continental development plan, initiated the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM). Since then 30 countries have joined the voluntary arrangement. How well has this process been working, and what lies ahead? A member of the APRM’s Panel of [Read More]
Yusuf Keketoma Sandi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 February 2012: For the past three or more weeks, our political discourse has been overshadowed by one evil: political violence. Understandably, most well-meaning Sierra Leoneans have been appalled by the re-surfacing of the spate of political violence, as we continue to live with [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto 4 February 2012 A spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, announced in a statement released Thursday, that Mr. Michael von der Schulenburg – the Executive Representative of the UN Secretary-General and head of its mission in Sierra Leone, will depart Freetown for New York on Monday, February 6, 2012. Though, Mr. [Read More]
Mohamed Kutubu Koroma 3 February 2012 As the people of Sierra Leone brace themselves for a presidential and general elections taking place in November, 2012, questions have been raised as to whether the polls will be free, fair, transparent and non-violent. Recent political violence does not inspire much confidence. But [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 2 January 2012 Every Sunday a pastor asks his members to pick a chorus. A rich member of the congregation was always the first to respond every time, with: “It shall be permanent; it shall be permanent, what the Lord has done for me, it shall be [Read More]
1 February 2012 “Time is short. And various options come to mind. One such option is to demand that the Police, including its paramilitary wing, do not carry live arms both in the run-up to and during the elections. Another option is to demand that they reform and correct themselves [Read More]
Abdul R Thomas – Editor, The Sierra Leone Telegraph 31 January 2012 As the people of Sierra Leone prepare to go to the polls in November, the debate as to whether president Koroma has done enough in tackling the country’s economic woes to deserve a second term in office is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2012 The Nobel Prize laureate – Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was today named chair of the African effort to end malaria deaths in the continent. She assumed the chair of the ‘African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA)’ from President Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete of the United [Read More]
Abdul R Thomas – Editor – The Sierra Leone Telegraph 29 January 2012 Ten years ago, I discovered the music of Samuel – Coleridge Taylor, whilst driving on the M1 Motorway to London from Leeds, on a very quiet and wintry Sunday morning. It was not until the end of a [Read More]
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