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As Elections Draw Nearer in Sierra Leone, Personal Grudges Riddles SLPP Germany

28/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

Shortly after a fundraising party recently organized in the German federal capital of Berlin by the Sierra Leonean main opposition, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Germany chapter, the chapter [Read more]

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Breaking News

AFRC Men Indicted By Special Court

26/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

25 September 2012 – The United Nations-backed court set up to try suspects indicted for war crimes in Sierra Leone today found three senior members of the country’s former Armed [Read more]

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Critique Column

Kabbah in History: Should He be Hailed or Crucified?

26/09/2012 Sulaiman Momodu

In fulfilment of my promise to maintain Beyond Borders (BB) following requests from some readers to have a different perspective on issues, especially as we approach the November 17 presidential [Read more]

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400 Nigerian Female Pilgrims Detained in Saudi Arabia

24/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

Four hundred female pilgrims from Nigeria that arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia yesterday to participate in this year’s annual hajj were promptly separated from their male counterparts and detained by [Read more]

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Kambia Belongs to Us, Says The Opposition Flagbearers

24/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

As politicians crisscross the country in the name of sensitizing their electorates ahead of the November 17 polls, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) presidential hopeful, Brig. Julius Maada Bio [Read more]

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Gbamanja Commission: A Missed Opportunity

23/09/2012 James Tamba Lebbie

When in 2009 the government set up the much-trumpeted Gbamanja commission of inquiry on the poor performance of students at basic and high school education levels comprising eminent erudites, hopes [Read more]

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America

Chicago Strike Over: City, Teachers Union, Chicago Publi Schools All Claim Victory while Black Children Continue to Lose

21/09/2012 Phillip Jackson

What is different for Black Chicago children two weeks after a grueling, internationally-watched, hard-fought strike than two weeks before the strike?  By most accounts, Black children will go back to [Read more]

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Benefit Cheat Asylum Seeker From Sierra Leone Stole More Than £180,000 While Holding Down Two Jobs

19/09/2012 Alex Ward, Mail Online

Fanta Sesay claimed fraudulently claimed £180,500 in benefits while earning more than £240,000 from her employment She was not entitled to the benefits or allowed to work Sesay was sentenced [Read more]

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Breaking News

Peter Penfold Launches a Book about Sierra Leone

19/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

Former British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Peter Penfold, has launched a book detailing his account of the Sierra Leone civil war titled: ‘Atrocities, Diamonds and Diplomacy: The Inside Story [Read more]

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Critique Column

President Koroma’s Subvention to NEC Nomination Fees NOT Good for Our Democracy, and Undetermined Our Parliament

19/09/2012 Messeh Kamara

I have been approached almost daily to express my views on the Government, the Opposition or the issue of the moment in Sierra Leone. Generally, I have resisted. As well [Read more]

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America

Multiple Grammy Award Winner, Stephen Marley Kicks Off Multi-city US Tour

17/09/2012 Dennis Kabatto

The eighteen city tour which began Friday at the Jomeokee Festival in Pinnacle, North Carolina includes performance dates in Aspen, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia to name a few,  will [Read more]

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An Open Letter to Vice President Sam Sumana

14/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

Dear Sam: I am attaching the first letter we sent to President Koroma on 8/29/2010 begging him to personally bring our case to you because of your refusal to respond [Read more]

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As Opposition Parties United Against NEC, New Nomination Fees Trashed Unconditionally

14/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

Information gathered by the Critique Echo reporters in Freetown has confirmed that the Christiana Thorpe’s jaw-broken nomination fees for the forthcoming presidential and parliamentary elections in the country which almost [Read more]

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Saudi Arabia Calls on International Community to assist Sierra Leone

13/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

Secretary General of Saudi Arabia's based Inter-Governmental Organisation, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has called on its 57 Member States and the International Community at large to urgently extend [Read more]

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UN Security Council Discusses Sierra Leone

13/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

The Security Council, welcoming the preparations in Sierra Leone for the presidential, parliamentary and local elections on 17 November, and underlining their importance as a “key benchmark” for peace consolidation in [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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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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