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Month: October 2016

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Sierra Leone, UAE Sign Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement

31/10/2016 Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Republic of Sierra Leone last week signed an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement in the commercial Emirati city of Dubai. The Deputy Minister [Read more]

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A Country of Pain and Penury – Busted Beyond Repairs?

31/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you, I’m [Read more]

Breaking News

YAD Signs Revolving Loan Contract With Young Photographers in Kenema District

29/10/2016 CEN

Youth in Action for Development has on past Friday supported young photographers in Kenema district. The colourful ceremony which took place at YAD’s Multipurpose Youth Resource Centre at Duawoh Street [Read more]

Random Musing

PART 2: The Criminalisation of Critical Thinking.

24/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

One of the huge elephants in the room of our national existence is the fact that for so long our cockroach (the nation) has been willing to dance in the [Read more]

Salone News

Freedom of Speech is not a License to Abuse. It is a Responsibility.

24/10/2016 Abdulai Mansaray

It has always been a widely held belief that the main purpose of journalism is to inform, educate and entertain. But the art of journalism can only flourish in a [Read more]

Random Musing

The Criminalisation of Critical Thinking.

24/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

“Development is a tough process and prosperity does not come on a silver platter.” These two things require effective collaboration and perseverance, not “layback theoretical prescriptions” and “half-hearted political grandstanding” [Read more]

Critique Column

Dancing On a Roulette Wheel as Future Problems Germinate Before Our Eyes.

19/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Came back from a West African tour to the increasing discourse about the national economic realities; as our hustlers’ paradise begin to unravel. That mighty white elephant in the room [Read more]

Critique Column

Is Sierra Leone’s Economy Under Economic Recession?

19/10/2016 Mohamed C. Bah NDA leader/Flagbearer 2018

Real economic recession is defined as a decline in Gross Domestic product (GDP).The economic health of a nation depends on the growth of the GDP, the rate of inflation and [Read more]

Critique Column

AUSTERITY, AUSTERITY, AUSTERITY!!!!!!!Mr. President, beware of your legacy.

19/10/2016 Abdulai Mansaray

This was one word I always prayed, will be banished from the political vocabulary of our country; because I saw, felt, and tasted what AUSTERITY was. This is no attempt [Read more]

Breaking News

Government to Implement Policy Measures to Tackle Economic Slowdown

04/10/2016 CEN

The government today agreed to implement a wide range of policy measures to address the current economic challenges facing the country following an emergency Cabinet meeting this morning at State [Read more]

Africa

West Africa Single Currency: The Lesson to Learn From European Single Currency

04/10/2016 Dr. Mehenou Amouzou

Western Africa states which are represented by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a commission comprised of countries of 15 States with an equivalent of 300 million people. These [Read more]

Africa

AMR GoldAttends World Bank Symposium on Sierra Leone Economic Recovery

04/10/2016 CEN

AMR Gold new Country Director-Luke Rogers on Thursday, 15th September 2106 attended a one day symposium organized by a member of the World Bank Group. The “Meet the Buyer” Symposium [Read more]

Diasporal Exclusive

President Obama Extends 18 month DED for Liberians after Homeland Security Approves 6 months TPS Reprieve for Ebola Affected Countries

04/10/2016 Dennis Kabatto

Less than a week after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary, Jeh Johnson re-authorized an extension of 6 months Temporary Protected Status (TPS) assigned to Ebola Affected Countries namely [Read more]

Critique Column

The Executive Is Not a Conveyor Belt — Why Proportional Representation Fails the Test

30/10/2025

The debate over proportional representation (PR) has resurfaced with vigour in Sierra Leone, stirred by comments from the Executive branch and framed by Andrew Keili’s “Ponder My Thoughts.” It is [Read more]

Latest Post

WE WHO VOWED: SHAME ON US

16/10/2025

There are times when a poem arrives like a visitation — not simply as art, but as revelation. Oumar Farouk Sesay’s We Who Vowed: Shame on Us is such a [Read more]

Critique Column

How Do You Solve a Problem Called Jagaban?

08/10/2025

Mohamed Omodu Kamara (MOK), popularly known as Jagaban may have come to the political arena comparatively recently, but he has been hugging the political headlines already. If this was a [Read more]

Latest Post

How Did Sierra Leone Become So Culturally Bankrupt ?

07/10/2025

Ishmael Dyfan, aka Petit Mariano, and the great Brima Mazolla Kamara became Sierra Leone’s first professional footballers when they joined Africa Sport D’Abijan of Ivory Coast. Soon after, East End [Read more]

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