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‘OPERATION GHETTO STORM’: The new face of US FASCISM
Massive human rights violations are taking place in the US and contradict American efforts to project itself as a champion of human rights, even as it subverts governments around the world, engages in...
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Africa Progress Panel welcomes New rules on gas and oil exploration to create...
Communities will now be able to hold government’s accountable for proceeds from natural resources courtesy of new rules. Europe’s new transparency rules now require oil, gas, and mining companies to...
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AFRICA is not a country:-An open letter to the Cultural Foundation of the...
How can the German Federal Cultural Foundation believe that 2 million Euros will promote cultural relations with the whole continent of Africa (and not even involve the Africans in the process)? By:...
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The French, The UN and THE IVORY COAST
With the violent overthrow of democratically elected President Gbagbo, Ivory Coast has reverted to its old status of a French colony in fact. The hands of French, Western and UN officials drip with...
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Proposal for the new AICRC force has been heavily criticised by the regional...
By: Elissa Jobson The African Union (AU) is seeking to speed up plans for a rapid deployment force capable of intervening in crises such as those recently in Mali and the Central African Republic....
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How to Slash Sierra Leone’s Rice-Imports in Five Years.
By: Jesmed F. Suma (BRIMCO Consulting) SUMMARY: This paper contains a set of common-sense suggestions for how to move Sierra Leone toward food security within five years by helping it to return to its...
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A President Koroma Third Term: Is There Any Truth In The 5-5-5 Rumour?
By: John Moses Kamara (United Kingdom As the National Delegates Conference of the ruling All Peoples Congress, otherwise known as the APC Convention, drew to a close over the weekend, rumours persist...
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“Africa’s vast reserves of untapped resources and the world-wide recession...
May 6,2013 HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe urged African intelligence services Monday to prepare for fresh onslaughts by foreigners and the continent’s former colonizers to...
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Sierra Leone:-Presidential Third Term Rumours-(Office of The President...
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT STATE HOUSE, FREETOWN PRESS RELEASE 9th May, 2013 It has come to the notice of Government that certain individuals are peddling rumours that His Excellency the President, Dr....
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2.4 Billion People Will Lack Improved Sanitation in 2015 – UN
PRESS RELEASE Geneva/New York — Some 2.4 billion people – one-third of the world’s population – will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015, according to a joint WHO/UNICEF report...
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Africa: The Rise and Rise of the African Factivists
BY: BRIGHT SIMONS AND JAMIE DRUMMOND*, 13 MAY 2013 ANALYSIS Bono’s much-tweeted TED talk spotlighted Ghana, a West African country usually regarded as one of the continent’s better managed and more...
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Africa’s Oil And Gas Outlook 2013 (Part 1)
By: Rolake Akinkugbe* Africa’ share of global oil and gas production has stood at 10% and 6% respectively over the past 24 months. Ecobank Research estimates that the total production of crude oil in...
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African Oil & Gas Outlook 2013 (part II) – Analysis By Region
By: Rolake Akinkugbe* ANALYSIS Nigeria and Angola SSA is set to produce approximately 5.9 million barrels (bpd) of crude oil in 2013 dominated by Nigeria and Angola compared to the estimated 5.5...
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Africa plundered by Secret Mining Deals- (Kofi Annan)
Tax avoidance, secret mining deals and financial transfers are depriving Africa of the benefits of its resources boom, ex-UN chief Kofi Annan has said. Under-pricing deprives Africa of much-needed...
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Fifty Sierra Leoneans languish in Libya
APA Freetown (Sierra Leone) Some fifty Sierra Leoneans are stranded in the south-western Libyan city of Sabha (south-west) after some “rogue” agents of “Rebuildlibya.com” firm recruited them in...
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Sierra Leone health ministry receives prenatal screening equipment
Sierra Leone’s ministry of Health and Sanitation has received an ultrasound mobile Prenatal Equipment Project Outreach (PREPO) machine costing $50,000 from Heineken Africa Foundation to increase...
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Sierra Leone signs $6bn mineral resources development project with Chinese group
The Sierra Leone government over the weekend signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the China Kingho Energy Group for the development of mineral resources which includes a $6 billion project....
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Sierra Leone: EITI to discuss new standards at 6th global conference
APA Freetown (Sierra Leone): The global watchdog for transparency in the extractive industry (EITI) will set new standards to be discussed and agreed at its sixth global conference in Australia (23 –...
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My RIGHTS, Your RIGHTS!- A poem By Milton Margai
By: Milton Margai (United Kingdom) MY RIGHTS, YOUR RIGHTS! My rights, your rights. If my rights are violated; Yours are indirectly violated too. It is a threat to civil liberties; It is a violation...
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Addressing land rights can make social change possible
By: Karol Boudreaux* What elephant lives in your development space? Last week in Cape Town at Grow Africa’s Investment Forum, Rwanda’s minister of agriculture and animal resources, Agnes Kalibata,...
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