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Month: August 2013

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Mother and Son Sets to Marry

31/08/2013 CEN

A 40-year-old mother is set to marry her own son.  The woman and her son claim to be in love with each other.  And now they want to take their [Read more]

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Struggle for Power Continues in SLPP Hierarchy

31/08/2013 CEN

Sierra Leone’s Political Parties’ Registration Commission is currently looking into a petition to restrain the new executive of the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party from functioning until their grievances are [Read more]

Africa

Nigerian Senators Are Paid More Than Some African Presidents

31/08/2013 Professor Femi Ajayi

Since there has been no denial from the National Assembly as to their scandalous wages, kept from the public consumption, their intended imbedding pensions for life for its principal officers [Read more]

Critique Column

Israel and Uganda Plans Mass-deportation of African Migrants

31/08/2013 Allyn Fisher-Ilan, Reuters

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel plans to soon begin deporting migrants from Eritrea and Sudan, who number more than 50,000, back to the African continent via Uganda, officials said. Israel regards [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: Getting Our Priorities Right

30/08/2013 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Historically, the national interest has always been what’s good for a government and not what’s right for, or needed, by the people and the nation. Therefore, the suspicions and recriminations; [Read more]

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Africa

PRESS RELEASE : Morocco Hosts The First World Summit of Local and Regional Leaders to Be Held in Africa

29/08/2013 Agnès Guillard

PRESS RELEASE Rabat, Morocco, July 8th 2013 The 4th World Congress of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) will take place in Rabat, Morocco, from 1st to 4th of October 2013 under the theme: [Read more]

America

A Father of 54 Kids Die in Phoenix

29/08/2013 CEN

Samuel Delbert Whitney of Phoenix, Arizona passed away at the age of 87, but he will live on through his kids … all 54 of them.  No this is not [Read more]

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Africa

Two Kenyan Men Agree to Marry One Woman: Kenyans Shocked All Over the World

27/08/2013 CEN

Marriage on a rota: Sylvester Mwendwa is one of the men getting married. He will take it in turns to live with his ‘wife’ Two Kenyan men have signed an [Read more]

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Africa

South Africa’s Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka sworn-in as new UN Women Executive Director

26/08/2013 Dennis Kabatto

The swearing of former South Africa’s Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo Ngcuka as the new executive director of United Nations Entity for Gender and Women’s Empowerment (UN Women) was presided by [Read more]

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President Koroma Assures Women in the Security Sector

26/08/2013 State House Communications Unit

President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has reassured women in the Security Sector that his government has taken key steps in addressing issues on women’s empowerment. President Koroma made the assertion [Read more]

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World’s Mother’s Index 2013: Sierra Leone Categorized the Third Worst Country to Born a Child and to Be a Mother

26/08/2013 Josephine Koroma

The latest Index by Save the Children, "Surviving the First Day- State of the world's mothers 2013" has shamefully ranked Sierra Leone third in the bottom 10 amongst the worst [Read more]

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Is The “4-for-4” a Good Agenda? Let’s Think Out of the Box

24/08/2013 Othman Sheriff

“Good afternoon Simma!”  Ngo Musa, an old concomitant greeted me at Nyawa Junction, in front of the wreckage of late Brima Marrah’s house which was burnt down in Blama during [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: Lessons From Across The Borders.

21/08/2013 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Even though foreign analysts say that the African pie (that is how our resources are now being defined) is too big for anyone to fret about, reading updates of developments [Read more]

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Rebuilding Our Great Party

21/08/2013 Yusuf Keketoma Sandi (London)

Let me start by congratulating Chief Alhaji Bai Shabora Somano Kapen III for his victory as party Chairman and Leader ; a man who has rendered and sacrificed so much [Read more]

Europe

Nigerians Jailed in U.K. for Arranging Sham Marriages

20/08/2013 CEN

As a loving couple about to embark on married life, it helps if the bride-to-be knows her fiance’s name.   Unfortunately when Nigerian Chinedu Amadi turned up at a register [Read more]

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YES, WE CAN: THE TRUE LEGACY OF THE ECOWAS SUMMIT

09/08/2026

The debate over the merits and demerits of Sierra Leone hosting the ECOWAS Summit may continue for some time. Supporters will point to the diplomatic prestige, regional visibility and economic [Read more]

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09/08/2026

The APC–SLPP rivalry has become more than a contest for political power. Over time, it has hardened into a national habit of thought—a lens through which many citizens interpret public [Read more]

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