Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2012: When the Sierra Leone Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) saw it fit to put out a public statement, expressing concern “about an incident, which took place in Freetown on Friday 12th October 2012, involving the motorcade of His Excellency the President – Dr. Ernest [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon 25 October 2012 Of the many absurd steps taken to dress our political system in borrowed robes, purportedly on behalf of the teeming illiterate masses, possibly the most ridiculous or hilarious, is the idea of having two of our November elections’ gladiators to take part in what [Read More]
24 October 2012 The 8th African Development Forum opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last Monday, with a call on African countries to harness their huge natural resources for the benefit of their growing populations, says APO. Addressing participants at the opening ceremony, the African Development Bank (AfDB) (http://www.afdb.org) Group Operations [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 24 October 2012 Last Saturday at their party headquarters in Freetown, the Presidential candidate of the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), launched the party’s 2012 election Manifesto to an audience, made up of the international community – including foreign election observers, local election observers, the [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya 13 October 2012 According to a news release from Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission (NEC), nearly 2,600,000 citizens registered for the forthcoming November 17 Presidential, Parliamentary and local council elections. It is also reported that, quite a number of people for some reason, have still not collected their voter [Read More]
10 October 2012 Presidential and parliamentary nomination events organised by Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission at the country’s sports stadium in the capital Freetown, is fast becoming an opportunity for political parties to rally their supporters. But they are also reaching out to the undecided voters sitting on the fence, [Read More]
6 October 2012 As presidential and parliamentary elections draw closer in Sierra Leone, the possibility of violence and electoral conflict, pose a grim and worrying threat, for a nation that has recently come out of a brutal civil war. The Carter Center in the USA, has announced [Read More]
6 October, 2012 “With the ‘youthman dem’ and ‘De popay dem’ pulling together, she will surely make it to that better future she needs and deserves” – says the British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Ian Hughes. Writing in his usual Foreign Office blog, Ian is confident about the power [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2012: Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia may have a lot in common, most notably, they share a common border. But there is more that distinguishes the three countries than meets the eyes – take the economy, for one. Political instability and an economy battered by [Read More]
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