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Farmland – the New “Blood Diamonds” in Sierra Leone?
By: Joan Baxter* (23rd May 2013) For their secret meeting, they’ve chosen a very small village surrounded by forest in Kpaka Chiefdom in southern Sierra Leone. About one hundred men - chiefs, elders...
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London’s Violent Spectacle: What is to be Gained by Calling it Terror?
By: Brad Evans* Politicians know better than most that words function politically. More than offering some definitive truth to a situation, the use of language conditions what is further possible. An...
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Africa: Development and the Double-Sided Mirror
By: Tunde Jegede* There is a need for a cultural rebirth in Africa as part of the radical economic and social transformation of the continent. A new African consciousness that is free from the chains...
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Africa: AU Coming of Age a Cause for Celebration?
By: Dr Titi. A. Banjoko* OPINION The focus of the next 50 years for the African Union should be to move from being a rigid bureaucracy to an agile organisation, which is able to flex and move at speed...
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Africa: The African Union At 50 – Missed Opportunities and Lessons for the...
By: Yves Niyiragira* OPINION A Post-independent African leaders have failed to realise the aspirations and hopes of self-determination and unity of the African people. There are five basic steps that...
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Africa: AU Summit Considers Draft Resolution on Withdrawal From ICC
By:Walter Menya, 24 MAY 2013 The African Union Summit will today consider a draft resolution calling on African states to withdraw from the International Criminal Court. African foreign ministers were...
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In Sierra Leone, the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) loses case to Momoh Konte
By: Dennis Jones (SEM) ,25 th May 2013 In the forenoon of Friday 24th of May, 2013 in the High Court of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Justice Abdulai H. Charm served justice when he acquitted and...
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Japan signs $13.97million power supply grant for Freetown
By: Saidu Bah The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Government of Sierra Leone and the Government of Japan yesterday signed the Exchange of Note and Grant Agreement of...
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Sierra Leone:- SALCOST to start construction of the first phase of the...
By: State House Communications Unit STATE HOUSE, Freetown, 24th May, 2013 The Government of Sierra Leone through the Ministry of Works, Housing and Infrastructure and the Sierra Leone Roads Authority...
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Big Brother Africa 8:- Meet “BOLT” and “BASSEY”, representing Sierra Leone.
“BOLT” : Businessman, 27 Country: Sierra Leone Occupation: Student, actor and model Bio: Freetown-born Bolt is a businessman with a Diploma in Computer Science. He loves Africa because it’s natural,...
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Sierra Leone:-Ernest Bai Koroma Leads the way, as Makeni Marathon Gets Even...
By: Abdulai Mansaray The annual Makeni Marathon that took place on the 26th. May, has seen one of the biggest turn oust since its inception last year. Unlike the previous one last year, this year has...
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Sierra Leone:-Marathon day in Makeni City!
By: Nyamacoro Silla On Sunday 26th May the people of Makeni City woke up to marathon day! Makeni is the largest city of Northern Sierra Leone and is the capital and administrative centre of Bombali...
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Sierra Leone:-The ACC failed the nation, again!
By: Francis I. Dumbuya Ph.D. Seriously? APC gets vindicated…? You’re kidding me? This title for an article describing the verdict in the conspiracy and influence peddling case against Momoh Conteh is...
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Sierra Leone’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Nations called for the...
By: Dennis Kabatto Sierra Leone’s Minister Plenipotentiary to the United Nations, Mr. Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu, has called for the creation of an African -based media system like the Arab media net...
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In Sierra Leone, GDP soared amid yawning inequalities.
By: Idrissa Koroma (Babito)* (United Kingdom) In the past few weeks, both local and international online newspapers were replete with the news that Sierra Leone’s economy is growing. The media frenzy...
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Africans march upward to economic purgatory.
ANALYSIS By: ADEKEYE ADEBAJO* The great and the good converged on Cape Town recently for the annual three-day World Economic Forum (WEF), Africa’s equivalent of Davos. Security was tight as business...
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Can Africa’s Lions match Asia’s Tigers?
By: JENNIFER BLANKE AND CAROLINE KO* Recent years have brought a renewed interest in Africa as the next big investment destination given its strong growth and dynamic demographic trends. MIGHTY ROAR:...
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“I will retire peacefully to my village in Bombali, eat my native...
By: Chernor Ojuku Sesay (Information Attache,Sierra Leone Embassy, Brussels/EU) President Ernest Bai Koroma has disclosed that the Agenda for Prosperity programme, which he will be launching this...
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Sierra Leone officials sought to ease concerns over a review of mining...
By: Stephen Eisenhammer LONDON, June 4 - Sierra Leone officials sought to ease concerns over a review of mining revenue and contracts on Wednesday, saying the aim was uniformity of tariffs with...
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In Sierra Leone,Inadequate Frequency Spectrum Affecting the Mobile Phone...
By: Sylvester Johnson The more one digs into matters related to the mobile phone industry in Sierra Leone, the more one realises that things are not as they should be and that numerous errors have...
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