Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2016 Sierra Leone has once again become a charity case, after failing to develop its agricultural sector to feed its 6 million population and become Africa’s food basket. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars spent on the farming industry, through the World Bank and international [Read More]
Saad Barrie Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2016 The proposed Mamamah Airport and New City is the flagship infrastructure project in Sierra Leone’s current medium term development plan, the ‘Agenda for Prosperity’. The indicative cost of the Mamamah Project is US$481 million. The airport alone is estimated to cost at [Read More]
Saad Barrie Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2016 The government of Sierra Leone is determined to build a new international airport in the north of the country, financed by a whopping $400 million loan from China. Opposition to this policy decision is strong, including the Word Bank who says that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2016 The announcement by the South African government that it is to pull out of the International Criminal Court (ICC), sends a very poor message to those leaders on the continent that thrive on impunity and the violent abuse of power to stay in office. [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2016 One of the huge elephants in the room of our national existence is the fact that for so long our cockroach (the nation) has been willing to dance in the open market place, but the fowl (the political class) will not [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2016 In a democratic society, freedom of speech should not be seen or used as a privilege, but as an organic necessity in a great society. The concept of free speech has historically never been an intrinsic part of Sierra Leone’s democratic infrastructure. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2016 Lusine Kallon (Photo: Years of waste accumulation in a slum in the capital Freetown) After nine years in power, the ruling APC’s economic mismanagement and bad policies have become the root cause of the country’s poor economic performance and the hardship suffered by the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2016 Two weeks ago there were frenzied reports of an alarming rise in the number of ritualistic murders in Sierra Leone, especially of children as young as five and six. Even more disturbing are the gruesome photos published on social media and circulated globally, purporting [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 October 2016 “Development is a tough process and prosperity does not come on a silver platter. These two things require effective collaboration and perseverance, not layback theoretical prescriptions and half-hearted political grandstanding.” That was President Ernest Koroma speaking at the official launching of [Read More]
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