Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 July 2019: Sierra Leone’s railway was a national asset that was stolen from its people. Before Sierra Leone’s national railway was finally shut down in 1975 by the APC government of president Siaka P. Stevens, it passed through 49 train stations – all connected by an [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 July 2019: The ninth edition of the flagship Assessing Regional Integration in Africa report (ARIA IX) was launched on 6 July 2019 at the African Business Forum in Niamey, Niger. Titled ‘Next Steps for the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), the report argues that AfCFTA’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 July 2019: After last Friday’s inflation bursting award of Le66 Billion (Sixty-Six Billion Leones) in end of service payment to former president Koroma, his ministers and senior government officials by president Julius Maada Bio, the debate as to whether his decision is prudent continues, and may [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 July 2019: Former president Koroma, former vice president, ministers and senior officials of the previous APC government have today received an inflation bursting windfall from president Julius Maada Bio, amounting to millions of dollars. This massive windfall is in lieu of their end of service benefits [Read More]
Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 July 2019: As we move through the second decade of the twenty-first century, the legal profession in our beloved Sierra Leone confronts a confluence of pressures and realities that have the potential to greatly change how law is practiced at all levels [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2019: Road accidents in Sierra Leone are taking the lives of thousands of people every year, because of the lack of an organised and well-resourced rapid emergency medical response. But this is about to change, with the formation of the ‘First Responder Coalition of Sierra [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: 4 July 2019: The Lungi Bridge has been a talking point for many Sierra Leoneans lately, and the amount of coverage has been well deserved. While some see it as the right step in the right direction for development, others consider it as a self-aggrandising monument or a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2019: Hariyatu Bangura is a young woman in Sierra Leone, fighting for justice, after her parliamentary seat won at the hotly contested general elections held in the country in March last year to represent her local constituency 116, was unconstitutionally taken away from her, and [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 July 2019: It was, and is not our colonial master that set us against each other. It is not just the political class that has disrobed us of the courage and the honesty to tackle the weightier matter of whether we are where [Read More]
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