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Momojah Lansana Foundation Donates to Bilali Mosque

30/08/2012 Augustine Samba

A Non-Governmental charitable organization, Momojah Lansana Development Foundation, on last holy Friday ( August 17th 2012) donated “Sunakati” to hundreds of Muslims at the Bilali Mosque, Kissy in Freetown. The [Read more]

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Saudi Press Attaché Bereaved

28/08/2012 Ibrahim Yousuf Sillah

It profoundly saddens to announce the sudden and premature death of Mohamed Ali Jalloh, younger brother of Sierra Leone Press Attaché to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Alhaji M.B. Jalloh. [Read more]

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How Yahya Jammeh May Have Spooked Bio’s Bid for Presidency.

28/08/2012 Abdulai Mansaray

Amnesty International says it has received “credible reports” that Gambia executed nine death row prisoners, including a woman on Thursday. Jammeh was reported to have vowed to kill all 47 [Read more]

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Deputy Speaker of Parliament Elected After Tug of War in Parliament

28/08/2012 Othman Sheriff

The Clerk of Parliament, Alhaji Ibrhaim Sesay on Tuesday 21st August ordered security personnel attached to Parliament to barricade all the doors leading to the parliamentary chambers and stop all [Read more]

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Discipline Is the Refining Fire by Which Talent Becomes Ability

22/08/2012 Abdulai Mansaray

A recent article that was reportedly published in the August 6th edition of Awareness Times newspaper headlined “APC & Blackmail by Rebel Students in Lawlessness” (thisissierraleone.com) has drawn a lot [Read more]

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Critique Column

“The Lady Doth Protest too Much, Me Thinks”.

19/08/2012 Abdulai Mansaray

 “The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their respective participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It [Read more]

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Salone News

Gender Violence Increases in Eastern Sierra Leone

18/08/2012 CEN

Sierra Leone in 2007 passed innovative laws aimed at reinforcing women’s rights and clamping down on sexual violence, but as the government and social services struggle to implement the laws [Read more]

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The German Development Minister’s Visit to Sierra Leone, Another Side of the Story

18/08/2012 Othman Sheriff

The most expensive words in the lives of the average Germans are: “I love you”, “please help me”, and “I’m sorry”, and they expect them to reciprocate in all their [Read more]

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Red Cross Responds to Cholera Outbreak in Sierra Leone

17/08/2012 Othman Sheriff

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and the Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS) are responding to a growing cholera crisis in the capital Freetown [Read more]

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Critique Column

The Politics of The Kono Chiefs in Sierra Leone

17/08/2012 Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray

When did you last visit Koidu town?  To say Koidu town is in a mess is an understatement and it has nothing to do with the ruling APC government. Just [Read more]

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Africa

Public Deserves More Information on NEPAD’s Achievements, Challenges – ECA Official Tells Experts’ Meeting

17/08/2012 Othman Sheriff

The Director of the Economic Development and NEPAD Division ECA's has said that officials and experts working on the implementation of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD) owe the [Read more]

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America

Sierra Leone Ambassador to US Confirm Correspondence From US Senator, Denies Knowledge of Pending Taakor Lawsuit

17/08/2012 Dennis Kabatto

Sierra Leone Ambassador to the United States, H.E. Ambassador Mr. Bokari Kortu Stevens has on Tuesday, August 14th confirmed receipt of a letter dated July 13, 2012 from United States [Read more]

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Let The Bygones be Bygone, Let The Sleeping Dog Lie, For The Sake of Peace in Sierra Leone (Part II)

17/08/2012 Othman Sheriff

This is part II of this piece.  Please read part I, if you haven’t done so already, to enable you grasp the gist. The Tejan Kabbah’s SLPP regime The Tejan [Read more]

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Let The Bygones be Bygone, Let The Sleeping Dog Lie, For The Sake of Peace in Sierra Leone (Part I)

16/08/2012 Othman Sheriff

Whenever I hear the cacophonous sounds of the bells of enmity, abhorrence and grudges being rang under the guise of patriotism against or for some Sierra Leonean political groupings,  by [Read more]

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Why the Sierra Leone Press Coverage of the Elections Risks Voter Apathy

13/08/2012 Abdulai Mansaray

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said that “democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education”. With the [Read more]

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In May 1789, Louis XVI summoned to Versailles a full meeting of the “Estates General”. The First Estate consisted of three hundred Nobles. The Second Estate, three hundred Clergy. The [Read more]

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Our Peace & Freedom Cost Too Much Blood and Agony to Relinquish Them to Cheap Rhetoric.

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Sierra Leone’s 2028 general election might sound like light years away, just like how a day or week in politics could be a long time. The cyclical life span of [Read more]

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The 55% Constitutional Threshold And The Fragility Of National Trust

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The 55% threshold in Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution was no arithmetic accident. It was a deliberate act of political design—an attempt by the framers to confront, rather than merely ignore, [Read more]

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