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Month: December 2011

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The Dilemma of the Arab Ghost.

28/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Abdulai Mansaray   Abdulai Mansaray, Author The last boot of US combat troops had barely left the Iraqi soil than the country celebrated the withdrawal with a spate of [Read more]

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2012 – Let the Revolution Begin.

28/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Before some faces turn angrier than a cobbler’s thumb at the statement above, let me first wish all of you a happy new [Read more]

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Why a Run-off is Unlikely in 2012…an Analysis of the Sierra Leone Elections

23/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Umaru Fofana, SLAJ, BBC, Freetown 2012 is here. The elections are near. Politicians have started greeting people by their name. Absentee and no-do-gooder parliamentarians, council chairmen and councillors have [Read more]

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Kim Jong Il’s Death ‘Won’t Hurt’ Russia Ties with North Korea

23/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Alexander Bratersky Late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (l) with President Dmitry Medvedev during a summit in Siberia in August this year. The sudden death of maverick North [Read more]

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German President Christian Wulff Breaks his Silence

23/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Kay-Alexander Scholz German President Christian Wulff has broken his silence over an undisclosed home loan from a friend. The president apologized for not being more open, but said he [Read more]

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Why African Politician Cannot Be Juju Dabbler

23/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, CEN Commentator, USA Sierra Leone is a perfect example of how the African politician should do away with the absurd juju-marabou spiritualism – if Africa is to [Read more]

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Liverpool or Liverfool FC? a Race Against Time

23/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Abdulai Mansaray, UK The English Football Association charged Luis Suarez of Liverpool Football club with misconduct and in the bargain, banned him for 8 games and fined £40.000 for [Read more]

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Sierra Leone is NOT the World’s Poorest Nation

22/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Othman Sheriff, Editor, CEN On behalf of all Sierra Leoneans at home and the Diaspora, I wish to hereby register my greatest concern about the publication in the Lynn [Read more]

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Chinese Government Supports President Koroma’s Infrastructural Development Agenda

21/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By State House Communications Unit Freetown- The commencement ceremony of the China-aided road rehabilitation project and the construction of the Charlotte Hydro Power Project was marked by an official turning [Read more]

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American Embassy Unhappy about Government Position on Gay Marriage

20/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Ibrahim Tarawallie   The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone yesterday came under serious bashing from the United States Embassy in Freetown for not having Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and [Read more]

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The Long Winding Road To Nowhere.

19/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon, awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Let’s end the game of wits.     We all know that politicians when whipped into mob frenzy can take banality to frightening [Read more]

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Another Cocaine Brouhaha in Freetown??

19/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

The Transnational Crime Unit of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) are presently investigating a 40ft container full of disposable pampers usually used by infants. The container marked MRKU 2393976 according [Read more]

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United Nation Defends its Representative in Sierra Leone, Warned Pro-government Media

16/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

A high-level meeting, bringing together members of the UN Security Council, General Assembly and Peace Building Commission at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday condemned persistent attacks by [Read more]

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The Burden of Corruption is Not on Washington’s Carriageway

14/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon, awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Blood is not simply red – it stains. Covenants without swords are but mere words. When the hunter is afraid of his gun, [Read more]

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18 Members of U.S. Congress Call for Investigation of Sierra Leone Logging Scandal

14/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

  U.S. Representative Hank Johnson, colleagues disturbed by reports of high-level corruption in partner country   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eighteen members of the U.S. Congress today wrote U.S. Secretary of [Read more]

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Critique Column

Farewell to a Trailblazer – Dr Kadi Sesay (1949–2025)

16/06/2025

Dr Kadi Sesay, feminist, scholar, politician, and pro-democracy advocate, passed away in the United States after a prolonged illness. She was 76. Family sources confirmed her death after a prolonged [Read more]

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In A War Of Egos, The Loser Always Wins

10/06/2025

The fallout from the “bromance” between Trump and Elon Musk was just a matter of time before the final blowout. Recent reports about the implosion between the most powerful man [Read more]

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With Organised Hypocrisy, People’s Indifferences & Impunity Are the Best Breeding Grounds for Corruption to Grow.

31/05/2025

An article titled “SLPP accused of planning to steal 2028 elections by creating new electoral districts in its stronghold and Freetown” (thesierraleonetelegraph.com (May 29-2025) seems to invoke post 2023 general [Read more]

Critique Column

An Idiot’s Guide to Winning an Election.

28/05/2025

If a week is a long time in politics, think of what five years in opposition feels like. After a 10 year stint in power, the APC Party found itself [Read more]

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