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Year: 2019

Africa

Liberians Celebrate Extension of Legal Status, Pathway to American Citizenship

31/12/2019 Dennis Kabatto

Liberian Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) holders are heaving a sigh of relief.  Following the enactment of the Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act (LRIFA) the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services [Read more]

Critique Column

The Roots of all Goodness Lie in the Soil of Appreciation

31/12/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

If Sierra Leone was a patient, a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scan would reveal that our country is in dire need of urgent surgery to repair its image. It is [Read more]

Breaking News

2018 Auditor General’s Report Unveils Massive Corruption Across all Sectors of Government

18/12/2019 CEN

The 2018 Report of Sierra Leone’s Auditor General – Mrs Lara Taylor Pearce, which was today tabled in parliament, makes for an unpleasant reading. The report is replete with massive [Read more]

Critique Column

The Paradoxical Irony of Hate Speech and Free Speech.

02/12/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

The Sierra Leone Telegraph published an article this month, “Sierra Leone Parliament to discuss repeal of seditious libel laws next month”. It chronicled a recently gazetted Bill entitled “The Public [Read more]

Europe

Democracy: The Collective Wisdom of Individual Ignorance.

29/11/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

Democracy as been described as a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives. My primary school teacher gave [Read more]

Critique Column

Journalism is What We Need To Make Democracy Work.

29/11/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

While some will see journalism as “organised gossip”, the majority will agree that it’s a force for progressive social change that maintains democracy. The role of journalism in any given [Read more]

Critique Column

When Crime Takes The Pulse Of Our Culture, Does It Reveal The Truth About Us As A Nation?

21/11/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

It is that time of the year again, the season of good will to all men. It is yuletide and the season of plenty. It’s Christmas. It traditionally marks the [Read more]

Critique Column

Those Who Fight Corruption Should Be Clean Themselves

21/11/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

The recent corruption scandal that involves the Chief Minister Professor David Francis and journalist Sallieu Tejan Jalloh remains leeringly unresolved in the background. President Bio made the fight against corruption [Read more]

Diasporal Exclusive

African Communities Together Vows to Appeal Dismissal of Liberian DED Lawsuit Against Trump

13/11/2019 Dennis Kabatto

African Communities Together (ACT) and its attorneys, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law have vehemently vowed to appeal a Boston federal district court dismissal of their Liberian Deferred Enforced [Read more]

Critique Column

When Committing Journalism Becomes a Crime

13/11/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

Once again, the issue of corruption has reared its ugly head in our country; as if it ever went away. It involves the Chief Minister of the Bio government. But [Read more]

Breaking News

YAD Launches Community Market and Social Mobilization Centre Construction Project.

10/11/2019 CEN

Youth in Action for Development (YAD) has today, 9th November 2019, launched another community development project at Ngiehun Konjo town, Malegohun chiefdom, Kenema district.  Among the distinguished stakeholders who graced [Read more]

Latest Post

Academia, Development Partners Discuss Climate Change Actions at SUNY-UWI Symposium

11/10/2019 Dennis Kabatto

The effects of climate change are so dire and pervasive that approximately, 4 million children and young people worldwide took to the streets recently to demand action from world leaders [Read more]

Critique Column

The Delusion of “Greatness”: The Greatest Threat to World Peace.

11/10/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

There can be no greater threat to world peace today, than the delusion of one’s greatness. As the world sits on the precipice of the collapse of the world order, [Read more]

Critique Column

If You Can Read This, Thank A Teacher.

11/10/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

It is always said that a good teacher is like a candle- it consumes itself to light the way for others. It may sound like flogging a dead horse, but [Read more]

Critique Column

When Political Expediency Silences Justice.

11/10/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

This year marked the 74th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations where all of its 193 Member States were represented. The General Assembly is one of the [Read more]

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Did Jaiama Sewafe Get an Early “Salmafo” from The SLPP Bio Government?

01/03/2026

It is early days into the Holy Ramadan Month, during which Muslims all around the world are required to fast from dawn to dusk, throughout the month. As one of [Read more]

Critique Column

The Paradox of Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy for Africa.

01/03/2026

When Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as shithole nations during a meeting on the 12 January 2018, the whole of Africa’s 1.55 billion people was [Read more]

Breaking News

YAD Concludes Annual TVET Graduation in Grand Style

26/01/2026

On January 23rd and 24th, 2024, YAD added another chapter to its ongoing youth and women’s empowerment initiatives by hosting its annual TVET graduation in a spectacular fashion. Each year, [Read more]

Critique Column

The Silence of the Lambs: Why Sierra – Leone’s Legal Guardians Must Not Stand Aside: Comparative Lessons and Constitutional Theory for a Critical Moment

25/01/2026

n Sierra Leone’s debate over the 2025 Constitutional Amendment Bill, the most troubling feature is not the substance of the proposals themselves but the silence that has settled around them. [Read more]

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