Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2018: Liberia’s largest palm oil producer pulls out of sustainability roundtable – what does this mean for rural communities? This is a report by Fidel C T Budy. The palm oil industry is no stranger to controversy. While the world has come to learn of the environmental [Read More]
Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2018: A Commission of Inquiry that is to investigate corruption in a few weeks’ time, is now on the lips of every Sierra Leonean. Whether the intention is witch-hunting or political accountability, the mere mentioning of the words – ‘commission of inquiry’, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2018: Last Friday, Francis Ben Kaifala – the Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission of Sierra Leone, addressed the National Governance Symposium 2018, organized by the Institute for Good Governance. He spoke about ‘the impact of corruption on our generation’ – a subject close to the heart [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2018: In 2012, officials in the APC government of former president Koroma entered into negotiations with the American company – Joules Corporation, who had promised to invest $800 million in developing Sierra Leone’s Bumbuna hydro-electricity dam. But sadly, the negotiations with Joules Corporation fell through, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2018: An African court with international criminal jurisdiction which has been debated but never been put into operation, could be an option if Africa withdraws from the ICC, as Michelle Nel reports for theconversation.com: The International Criminal Court (ICC) came about after an overwhelming majority [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2018: The war of words which started between the APC party and SLPP, following the defeat of the APC at the polls in March 2018, is simply refusing to go away. Whilst the ruling SLPP are accusing the opposition APC of trying to sabotage its [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2018: Africa should be the breadbasket of the world, and has no reason spending US$ 35 billion a year importing food, African Development Bank (ADB) president Adesina tells Agriculture conference taking place in the U.S. Akinwumi Adesina made an urgent call to give farmers across [Read More]
A concerned citizen: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2018: APC wrecked the economy of Sierra Leone and left it in shambles. But its supporters now want to see the Bio led government conjure up miracles in 100 days. When the economy crashed in the hands of the APC, its supporters [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2018: It is now almost five months since general and presidential elections were held in Sierra Leone, in which one of the country’s newly formed political parties – the National Grand Coalition (NGC) led by Dr Kandeh Yumkella, proved it is a force to be [Read More]
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