Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2017 The departure last week of president Koroma for Germany has sparked growing concern and speculation about the state of his health. A statement issued by Presidential Spokesman Abdulai Bayraytay last Sunday, 8th of June 2017, simply says that: “The general public is hereby informed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2017 Sierra Leone’s main oposition party – the Sierra Leone People’s Party has announced that all Lower Level Executive Elections in the 39 constituencies will start next week, staring on the 28th of June, and ending on 22nd of July. The decision to hold a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2017 Three weeks ago, the president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma chaired the Sierra Leone Development Finance Forum, which was jointly organised by the World Bank and the country’s ministry of finance and economic development in the capital Freetown. The aim of the [Read More]
Daniel Koroma Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2017 Isha Johansen – is popularly known as the “Iron Lady”; and CAF referred to her as a “Champion”; the former FIFA President hailed her as a “Warrior”, whilst Forbes Magazine named Isha Johansen as one of the twelve women to “watch out [Read More]
Santhkie Sorie Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2017 A government of national unity with the same mentality changes nothing. It will still be the case of the fox in the hen house or a drunkard in charge of a distillery. The most impressive thing about such a scenario is that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2017 The people of Sierra Leone will be going to the polls next March, after ten years of what many in the country describe as ruling APC economic mismanagement, corruption, abuse of power, ineptitude and lack of strong leadership. Equally, serious doubts have been expressed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2017 Millions of dollars are being spent every year by Africans – both men and women, on chemicals made to lighten the skin, despite warnings about the terrible health consequences. But little is said about the psychological self-harm of skin bleaching in Africa. Writing in [Read More]
Sierra Lone Telegraph: 13 June 2017 Sierra Leone’s minister of social welfare, gender and children’s affairs – Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden is in New York, attending the Tenth Session of the Conference of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Addressing the [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2017 I am a man with a cut in the mouth, so I know the true taste of blood. And you know why? Because every day keeps revealing that most Sierra Leoneans will rather die defending the status quo. I am not [Read More]
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