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Politics & Law

Governance Transition report – Is Sierra Leone a vampire state?

July 13, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 July 2018: “Many African countries are “vampire” states, their governments hijacked by gangsters who use the instruments of the state to enrich themselves and their cronies. In Africa, the richest people are heads of state and ministers. “They destroy wealth rather than encourage investment, [Read More]

Education and Health

Students in Sierra Leone will no longer pay for university application forms

July 13, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 July 2018: Gaining university entrance in Sierra Leone is a very costly business for thousands of students and parents across the country, the majority of whom – over 80%, are either unemployed or living well below the poverty line. When the cost of tuition fees is [Read More]

Education and Health

Global Fund helping to save lives and build Sierra Leone’s health infrastructure

July 12, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 July 2018: The Global Fund partnership is putting a sharper focus on challenging operating environments such as Sierra Leone, to improve the effectiveness of health investments and reach key populations. During the peak of the Ebola outbreak, the Global Fund mobilized an emergency fund to support [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sierra Leone parliament ratifies $59 million loan to improve electricity

July 12, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 July 2018: Parliament of Sierra Leone last Tuesday 10th July 2018, ratified a $59 Million finance loan agreement, which had previously been signed by the former Koroma led APC government and the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), to improve access to electricity supply at a [Read More]

Politics & Law

APC party refutes Sierra Leone governance transition team report

July 11, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Dr. Alhaji Osman Foday Yansaneh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 July 2018: The public would recall that following the presentation of the SLPP Governance Transition Team Report to President Julius Maada Bio at State House on Wednesday 4th July 2018; the APC established a Committee to look into the said report [Read More]

Politics & Law

Ernest Bai Koroma – his cronies and the Party he badly destroyed and sold out on

July 10, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Mohamed Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 July 2018: I was sleeping in my apartment in Atlanta, Georgia when I received a call from my younger brother who sounded excited and wanted to pass what he believed was good news. He screamed “Broda, the pa cam nar office yesterday. We gladi [Read More]

Politics & Law

Thoughts on the Sierra Leone Governance Transition Report

July 10, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Dr. Lans Gberie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 July 2018: Strong reactions have understandably accompanied the release, on 4 July, of the Governance Transition Team’s (GTT) report. This is predictable. The charmed circle of political elite in Sierra Leone is an intimate one, and the unspoken rule has always been ‘speak [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Bio takes action to implement Anti-Corruption report

July 9, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 July 2018: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has today announced steps to be taken by his government in implementing the recommendations of a 124-page report on the abuse of office and unbridled corruption in the former APC government of president Koroma. The report which [Read More]

Politics & Law

Corruption is authority plus monopoly minus transparency

July 8, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 July 2018: Sierra Leone – our country, has been gripped by the fangs of corruption. President Bio’s government has published its long-awaited Government Transition Team (GTT) report, and to all intents and purposes, it does not make for a good bedtime story, by any [Read More]

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