Kingsley Ighobor in Freetown, Sierra Leone Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2015 Paolo Conteh, Sierra Leone’s defence minister and head of the country’s National Ebola Response Centre, was an athlete who set a 400 metres national record in 1982 that remains unbeaten to this day. These days, Mr. Conteh uses [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2015 Political tension in Sierra Leone continues to rise alarmingly, amid a worrying hike in the number of new Ebola cases, especially in the capital Freetown and the north of the country. But with a government that is becoming increasingly touchy over the activities of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2015 The hopes and dreams of the people and authorities of Kailahun district were dashed yesterday, after celebrating one hundred and eleven Ebola free days, when the government announced that a child has died in the district of the Ebola virus. This news brought shock [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 April 2015 China’s economic interests in Sierra Leone have risen by over 400% in the last five years, and this resurgence can be largely explained by its vast investment in the country’s mining sector. But China’s economic expedition in Sierra Leone has prompted several Sierra Leoneans [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 April 2015 There is a saying: “If you want to sleep with me, please be nice enough to romantically sedate me first.” It is not enough that our democracy has turned into ‘government of the one percent by the one percent and for [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 April 2015 Vice president Sam Sumana is awaiting the deliberations of Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court in two weeks, upon whose fiat, judgement as to whether president Koroma acted unlawfully or not rests. But in the meantime, he has opened up another battle-front with the ruling APC [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2015 Sierra Leoneans in the last two months have seriously been dis-empowered and impoverished, by those elected to serve as custodian and guarantor of the country’s constitution. They have been let down by the behaviour of bad politicians, who have no business in governance. But [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2015 It’s a new day, and it’s a new dawn for Nigeria’s liberal democracy, as the people of Africa’s most populous nation turn their backs on a sitting president and his ruling party that have ruled them since 1999. Today the majority of Nigerians say [Read More]
Yusuf Keketoma Sandi Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 March 2015 Many concerned Sierra Leoneans on Sunday, 28th March, 2015, braved the weather in London to demonstrate against the unconstitutional actions of President Koroma, following the removal of Vice President Sam Sumana and the appointment of Ambassador Victor Foh as new “vice [Read More]
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