The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2013 It is the constitutional duty of every democratically elected government to ensure that their plans and performance are first reported to parliament, especially the government’s economic performance and budgetary plans for the ensuing year, prior to publication. (Photo: minister Marrah). And it is [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 November 2013 Sierra Leone’s brave and embattled media is now facing serious financial meltdown, if the country’s ruling class is to have its wish granted by the courts, following a series of criminal libel lawsuits. And just when you think that the country’s media had [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2013 Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella – Special Representative of the UN Secretary- General and Chief Executive of Sustainable Energy for All, will be speaking today at the 60th anniversary of Christ the King College, in Bo, Sierra Leone. In the fast moving global debate [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph – 23 November 2013 President Koroma has been accused of making several policy blunders since coming to office in 2007 – though not surprisingly, but his decision to ‘dumb-down’ the qualifications for Speaker of the country’s parliament, goes beyond the pale of political ignorance. Some would [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 November 2013 Leaders of West Africa’s financial institutions, policy makers and economic development ministers were in Accra, Ghana on the 28th October, 2013, where they discussed the mobilisation of new sources of financing, particularly for infrastructure development. (Photo: Ghana’s President Mahama). Africa is at a [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2013 Many African countries such as Sierra Leone that have embraced an economic growth model, predicated on the need to borrow and spend, may be causing more longterm damage to real and sustainable growth and prosperity. Sierra Leone’s debt, which was written off by [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2013 There have been intense media speculation in the last week, as to whether the US government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), has indeed made a decision not to offer funding to Sierra Leone, estimated at close to $100 million. Several commentators have written off [Read More]
Pa Baimba Sesay The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2013 The recent fracas in our capital, between students of a secondary school and our police force, calls for a complete retrospect by the police leadership on a range of issues, including recruitment and public relations. In responding to a serious [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 November 2013 Heavily armed police officers have attacked and shot dead an unarmed school boy in the Eastern suburb of Freetown, sparking anger and accusation of yet another police mob justice, brutality and cover up. (Photo: Police Chief Munu) The school boy Alhaji Rabo was [Read More]
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