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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2019: The number of people dying due to climate-led changes in the environment are increasing and the poorest populations remain the hardest hit. Writing in theconversation.com, Lenore Manderson warns: “Developed economies are able to reduce environmental health risks through improved infrastructure, legal interventions and education. But the [Read More]
Alfred Fornah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2019: Professor Pieter Bon, an educational psychologist and Chairman of the Academy for Sustainable Development in the Netherlands, last week delivered a series of public lectures on Sustainable Development Goals ( SDGS) at five tertiary educational institutions in Freetown. The public lecture series [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 January 2019: Joule Africa Limited, the company responsible for developing Sierra Leone’s Bumbuna hydroelectricity phase two development has received $3.5 million from the European Union’s Electrification Financing Initiative (Electrifi), towards the cost of carrying out work that could see a massive increase in power output from [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2019: The long-awaited Commission of Inquiry into the governance activities of the former government led by president Koroma is finally here. Dubbed the people’s commission, the judge led commission will be opened at the Special Court Buildings in Freetown, on Tuesday 29th January 2019. The [Read More]
Abdulai Braima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2019: Since Sierra Leone gained her independence in 1961, one of the many sectors that have been unceremoniously dumped and left to die and decay is tourism. And to know that there are many less endowed countries that almost entirely depend on tourism [Read More]
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