Election Watch
Politics & Law
Elections in Sierra Leone – mortgaging the future of the nation to capture votes?
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 January 2018: The people of Sierra Leone will go to the polls on 7th March 2018. Already there are several questions being asked as to whether those elections will bring out the best in the people of Sierra Leone – in terms of [Read More]
Economy & Business
First African Roundtable on good infrastructure governance
Chris Heathcote: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2018 Infrastructure is crucial to Africa’s growth prospects. It’s also hard to get right, a reality acknowledged by delegates from around the continent and further afield who recently gathered in Cape Town, South Africa, for Africa’s First Roundtable on Infrastructure Governance. Until now, policy [Read More]
Economy & Business
Corruption is a big issue in African elections – says Transparency International
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2018 Over two-thirds of the 176 countries and territories in the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index 2016, fell below the midpoint scale of 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean). The global average score is 43, indicating endemic corruption in a country’s public sector. Sierra [Read More]
Economy & Business
Transparency is key to corruption-free infrastructure in Africa
Chris Heathcote: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2018: The first Regional Roundtable on Infrastructure Governance was held in Cape Town at the beginning of November. Peter Eigen, founder of Transparency International, who addressed the event, reflects on the vital importance of openness and transparency for successful and sustainable infrastructure projects. [Read More]
Economy & Business
Grand corruption in Sierra Leone – Faulty lines in flawed and costly mining agreements
NGC Publicity Office: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2018: The National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party has learnt with consternation, news reports that the Ernest Korma-led APC Government recently rushed three major mining agreements with little or no debate through Parliament. Each of those agreements could have huge and adverse economic [Read More]
Politics & Law
Kandeh Yumkella – Andrew Keili poised to win 2018 elections
John Mannah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 January 2018: The vast majority of Sierra Leoneans have been yearning for change in the last two decades of the country’s history – most especially, change from economic doom and gloom to prosperity. And it will be an understatement, to say that we have [Read More]
Election Watch
Why is Maada Bio being indecisive about his presidential running mate?
Yei Manga: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 January 2018 Brigadier Bio has been elected since November 2017 to lead the SLPP to the March 2018 presidential and general elections. We have less than two and half months to that coveted date. While the other two major parties – APC and NGC [Read More]
Politics & Law
The people of Kono must use their votes to remove APC from office in 2018
Noorudin KaiKai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2018: I am of the opinion that Freetown and Kono would probably decide who gets to be President in the upcoming elections, because they hold the highest percentage of swing voters in the country. However, I do not believe that the APC party [Read More]