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The Supreme Hallmark of Reality Is Balance

29/12/2018 Abdulai Mansaray

In a process of transformation, there is always a latent need for the phoenix of humanity to rise from the ashes.  Barry Goldwater once said that “Social and cultural change, [Read more]

Latest Post

Has The APC Party Rediscovered Their Power And Unity?

27/12/2018 By Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray

Reading Chinua Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” during my secondary school days in little Jaiama Sewafe, Kono District, one striking theme always kept me worried and that was, will Umoufia (a [Read more]

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PRESS STATEMENT: Unsubstantiated Claims by Former Youth Affairs Minister Bai Mahmoud Bangura on AYV Television

23/12/2018 CEN

MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS 2ND FLOOR, STADIUM HOSTELS BROOKFIELDS PRESS STATEMENT Unsubstantiated Claims by Former Youth Affairs Minister Bai Mahmoud Bangura on AYV Television FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, Wednesday, 19th December, [Read more]

Critique Column

Salone Commission of Enquiry: Time to Disrupt the Corrupt?

23/12/2018 Abdulai Mansaray

The long awaited Commission of Enquiry in Sierra Leone has been slated to commence in the New Year. There is no doubt that among other policy changes and statements, this [Read more]

Critique Column

Is Sierra Leone Really Divided Or Just a Hoax?

23/12/2018 by Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray

From Jaiama Sewafe in Kono District to Freetown in the Western Area, the Presidential elections have long seemed like a battle of contests in optimism; the candidate with the most [Read more]

Critique Column

Maada Bio: He, Who Opens a School Door, Closes a Prison

11/12/2018 Abdulai Mansaray

Kono district has always been the proverbial man that sits by the river and washes his hands with spittle. It is no secret that the mere mention of Kono district [Read more]

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How Not To Conduct Large-Scale Agricultural Investments: Lessons From The Malen/Socfin Land Dispute In Sierra Leone

10/12/2018 CEN

The website of Socfin Agriculture Company Ltd (SAC) paints a picture of turbulence. A series of posts stretching as far back as 2013 reveal the company has been under pressure [Read more]

Critique Column

Youth Empowerment In Post Conflict Sierra Leone: How Far Are We Prepared To Go?

10/12/2018 Othman Sheriff

Major global leaders have adopted over the years, diverse policies that ensure empowerment of young people all over the world.  The commonwealth for example, has series of funding windows through [Read more]

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Sierra Leone receives seventy-three million Euros from European Commission

10/11/2018 CEN

President Julius Maada Bio has received a huge boost from the European Commission in Brussels, after the Commission promised to provide 73 million euros funding to the government of Sierra [Read more]

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Stone Miner In Kenema Impregnates Daughter

10/11/2018 By Saffa B. Moriba in Kenema

Joseph Karim, a stone miner, has been committed to High Court in Kenema during his last appearance in the Magistrate Court No. 1 before the Magistrate Alhaji Sulaiman Koroma. Karim [Read more]

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Sierra Leone Diaspora Medics Delivers Free Medical Care in Kailahun

10/11/2018 CEN

A team of Sierra Leonean Diaspora Medical professionals from United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States of America are in Sierra Leone to deliver free medical services in the Kailahun [Read more]

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PRESS RELEASE: Oil Palm Company to Return Land and rent Arrears to Legal Owners

10/11/2018 CEN

Court orders oil palm company to return 41,582 hectares of land and pay arrears of rent to landowning families in Port Loko District, Northern Sierra Leone Freetown, Sierra Leone, November [Read more]

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The New Daily Business Series From the BBC: Money Daily

03/11/2018 CEN

Money Daily, launching on Mon 5th November, is the newest offering from BBC News Africa – bringing a concise daily round-up of the day’s business and economic headlines for all [Read more]

Europe

German Police Faces Standoff in Wake of Deportation Operation

25/10/2018 CEN

On Wednesday afternoon, a large police operation took place at the branch office of the temporl asylum camp Deggendorf in the Plattling-Stephansposching industrial area. This was triggered by a failed [Read more]

America

Jamal Khashoggi’s Iphone Recorded His ‘Killing’ At The Saudi Embassy In Turkey

19/10/2018 CEN

President Donald Trump warns the US would inflict “severe punishment” if Saudi Arabia was behind journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s disappearance. Missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi recorded audio on his Apple watch of [Read more]

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The Law Must Call Them Home: The Crisis of Absentee Paramount Chiefs

14/11/2025

For those who care about law, governance, and the moral architecture of Sierra Leone’s society — and who cherish the Paramount Chieftaincy as a cornerstone of our cultural identity — [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]

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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]

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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]

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