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  • [ 03/02/2019 ] The Betrayal Of Trust Carries A Heavy Taboo. Critique Column
  • [ 29/11/2025 ] CELEBRATING S.B.B. DUMBUYA AT 80 — The Teacher Who Formed a Generation Critique Column
  • [ 25/11/2025 ] CONVERTING MINES MINISTER MATTIA’S OP-ED ON SIMANDOU INTO ACTION Critique Column
  • [ 25/11/2025 ] THE WOMAN PRESIDENT. NEXT. Critique Column
  • [ 25/11/2025 ] Beyond Inspiration: Mining Governance in Sierra Leone and the Missed Lessons of Simandou 2040 Critique Column
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Year: 2023

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Let The Power of Love triumph Over the Love of Power

25/12/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

When the devil incarnate Corporal Foday Sankoh launched one of the most barbaric acts against his countrymen in 1991, Sierra Leone was in the grip of dire hardship that characterised [Read more]

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YAD and YRA Certify 62 Tech-Voc Students in Kenema with Business Startup Kits.

22/12/2023 CEN

Youth in Action for Development (YAD) and its educational offshoot, Youth Resource Academy (YRA), on Wednesday, 20/12/2023, certified 62 students after two years of successful training in diverse skills. YRA [Read more]

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YAD Ends Campaign against GBV with Annual Youth Unification Match in a Grand Style

22/12/2023 CEN

On Tuesday and Wednesday, December 18th and 20th, 2023, YAD concluded its campaign against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) with the annual Youth Unification Match. The campaign, which targeted hundreds of girls [Read more]

Breaking News

Minister of Trade and Industry Scores Big with UNIDO

30/11/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

Sierra Leone’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Alpha Ibrahim Sesay recently concluded the 10th Ministerial Meeting of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) in Vienna, Austria on 24th November, 2023. [Read more]

Critique Column

It Is Better to Be Defeated on Principle Than Win on Lies.

16/11/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

Reverend Kabbs Kanu, the proprietor of the Cocorioko Newspaper lambasted the American ambassador to Sierra Leone Bryan Hunt for allegedly colluding with President Bio. In his article titled “America’s flip-flopping [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: From darkness into darkness

27/10/2023 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. We’re truly moving to an era where a lot of Political-Fiction, will become Political-Fact in the not-too-distant future which would transgress laws, precipitating the [Read more]

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Positive Transcendence is the Best Outcome of Every Conflict: Bravo to SLPP and APC

21/10/2023 Othman Sheriff

The outcome of the June 24 multitier elections left the Sierra Leonean electorates in limbo as the main political rivals, the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) and the opposition [Read more]

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Sierra Leone Needs Statesmen, Not Politicians.

17/10/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

The European Union Election Observation Mission has finally published an 83-page, long awaited report on the Sierra Leone Election, 2023. The report catalogues the good, the bad and the ugly [Read more]

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The Existence of Parliaments and Elections Alone, Don’t Define Democracy.

24/09/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

Many would have expected the conduct of the June 23rd elections in Sierra Leone to seal the political wrangling, gerrymandering, and politicking until another cycle. Some hoped that it would [Read more]

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NGOs Converge On Their Current State Of Affairs

14/09/2023 By Frances M. Koroma

At an emergency membership meeting held on Friday, 8th September, 2023 at the St Anthony Hall, Syke Street, Freetown, NGOs gathered to chart a way forward in their affairs, as [Read more]

Critique Column

When Dictatorship Is A fact, Revolution Becomes A Right.,

11/09/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

We are living in a world that is drowning in a wealth of information but afflicted by poverty of thought. Such a notion conjures images of social media, with all [Read more]

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If Voting Made Any Difference, Would They Let Us Do It?

04/09/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

The US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken issued a press statement on 31 August, 2023 on the visa restriction policy to be applied in Sierra Leone. Here is the [Read more]

Critique Column

Is Sierra Leone’s Democracy Worthy of Emulation?

24/08/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

The general election in Sierra Leone has come and gone. The drums may appear to have fallen silent, but like a swimming duck, there’s on going diplomatic gymnastics bubbling underneath [Read more]

Africa

Should The Whole of The African Continent Support the Coups in The Sahel?

17/08/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

As controversial as the question in the title might sound, Africa and especially its generations need to wrap their heads round this question. In the face of democracy as a [Read more]

Africa

Are The Coups in West Africa A Third World Movement to Decolonise the African mind?

12/08/2023 Abdulai Mansaray

It might have started long before Patrice Lumumba of the then Congo was betrayed and killed by the Belgians. Since then, the political history of Africa is known as the [Read more]

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CELEBRATING S.B.B. DUMBUYA AT 80 — The Teacher Who Formed a Generation

29/11/2025

This week, Mr. Sheku Badara Bashiru Dumbuya, affectionately known to thousands of former pupils simply as SBB, turned 80 years old.   Eighty is a milestone that invites reflection—not only [Read more]

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CONVERTING MINES MINISTER MATTIA’S OP-ED ON SIMANDOU INTO ACTION

25/11/2025

When Minister Julius Daniel Mattia wrote his op-ed on Guinea’s Simandou 2040, he was not just offering congratulations across a friendly border. His words carried the rhythm of an older [Read more]

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THE WOMAN PRESIDENT. NEXT.

25/11/2025

Two important questions women (and men allies), especially those in politics, should and must ask in preparation for Sierra Leone’s 2028 elections are these: 1) If there are no SLPP, [Read more]

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Beyond Inspiration: Mining Governance in Sierra Leone and the Missed Lessons of Simandou 2040

25/11/2025

On 12 November 2025, I read with interest an op-ed reflection shared on WhatsApp by Sierra Leone’s Honourable Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius Daniel Mattai, titled “Mining a [Read more]

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