16 April 2012 In 2007 Ernest Bai Koroma – leader of the opposition APC party caught the imagination of the electorate with his ‘Agenda for Change’ election campaign and manifesto title, and went on to win the elections. What was remarkably significant and odd about the 2007 elections, was that [Read More]
John Pa Baimba Sesay 15 April 2012 As the November 17th presidential and Parliamentary elections draw closer, the President of the republic of Sierra Leone – Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has said that; based on the performance of his government in the last five years, he is sure of not [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2012: Yesterday, the International Monetary Fund issued a worrying statement on the state of the Sierra Leone economy, after meeting with president Koroma, the finance minister and the governor of the Central Bank. It could not have been a happy meeting of friends. The government of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2012: President Koroma’s government has run out of cash. Bills and salaries remain unpaid, as it tries to honour its higher than expected spending budget. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) told reporters today, that; “The authorities agreed with the mission on the need to enhance fiscal [Read More]
Dennis Kabatto There has been a huge upsurge in violence in the Sierra Leonean communities of Washington – DC, Maryland and Virginia (DMV Zone). This alarming trend has prompted concerned Sierra Leoneans in the DMV Zone to call an emergency ‘Stamp out Violence’ Town hall Meeting Saturday, April 14, at [Read More]
Alpha Kargbo Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2012 The fourth phase of the biometric voter registration for the forthcoming presidential and general elections in Sierra Leone, which is slated for November 2012, officially closed on the 25th of March 2012. There are massive discrepancies in the figures, raising suspicion of [Read More]
SLPP (North America) Communications Team 9 April 2012 Governments, a political wit once lamented, don’t lie, they merely fabricate. And to a limited extent, we can understand our leaders having to engage in some spin or public relations. But as the APC arms purchase scandal has revealed, this is a [Read More]
9 April 2012 President Koroma’s decision to import large cache of military grade arms and ammunition into the country, so close to a general election, is regarded at best with suspicion by the international community – especially the UN Security Council; and at worse, seen by most Sierra Leoneans and [Read More]
7 April 2012 In just twenty days Sierra Leoneans across the USA will celebrate 51 years of independence of their motherland. Events will be co-ordinated by the Save Sierra Leone Foundation in collaboration with the Sierra Leone Embassy and the Sierra American Soccer Association (SASA). The weekend of Friday, April [Read More]
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