Yusuf Keketoma Sandi Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 May 2015 On Thursday 30th April 1992, in a very passionate address to the nation, a young president of Sierra Leone – Captain Valentine Strasser (photo), had this to say about the APC: “Fellow citizens, for over 23 years we have been misruled [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 May 2015 Elections in Sierra Leone may be two or three years away, but there is little doubt president Koroma and his ruling APC party, are closely watching developments in Burundi and DR Congo. Both president Nkurunziza of Burundi and Kabila of Congo, are poised [Read More]
Zainab Tunkara Clarkson Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 May 2015 Now that the worst of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) has passed and the spread of the epidemic significantly slowed down, rebuilding shattered and devastated communities is the next big challenge. In several ways, reconstruction may actually be a bigger task [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2015 The long awaited Supreme Court ruling into whether an injunction should be granted, preventing Victor Bockarie Foh from continuing to serve as vice president of Sierra Leone was delivered today. After exactly four weeks of deliberations, the five Judges unanimously decided that it would [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 May 2015 Many Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad, who were once admirers and supporters of president Koroma, are now dumb struck by the alarming ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ manner, with which the president has transformed himself into a brutal dictator. Today, Amnesty International says politically motivated [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2015 Despite the constitutional imbroglio and the presence of Ebola in our midst, Sierra Leone on the surface, seems extraordinarily calm these days. However, whatever the outcome of the Sam Sumana saga, one thing is sure – he is history, as far [Read More]
Edie P. Vandy Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 May 2015 Accountability Alert Sierra Leone (AASL) has partnered with Janaagraha “I Paid a Bribe” in India to campaign and take action to eradicate bribery, by empowering citizens with the tool to report bribery and help uncover the true cost of corruption and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 May 2015 Last minute frantic change of agenda for the national delegates conference of the ruling APC party of Sierra Leone, by the party executives yesterday, may have averted an ‘all-out internecine war’, but has surely postponed the inevitable mutiny that will tear the party apart [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 May 2015 Welcome to the 17th Anniversary of NOSLINA (National Organization of Sierra Leoneans in North America) weekend. On Saturday, 2nd May 2015, members of Sierra Leone’s most prestigious Diaspora establishment – NOSLINA, will gather at Metro Points in New Carrollton, Maryland, USA, to [Read More]
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