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“Collateral Damage”

11/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Sorie Fofana The Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report of 2004 discovered that “endemic corruption was a central factor that produced the dire conditions that made civil war inevitable. Sierra [Read more]

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An Open Letter to the Vice President

08/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, By Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon awogordon@yahoo.co.uk   Sir,   The Vice President, Alhaji Sam Sumana Permit my impudence but there is an irony in the fact that the administration [Read more]

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A Tree Never Hits an Automobile Except in Self Defence.

08/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Abdulai Mansaray   Abdulai Mansaray, Author The last time I checked, the national police force of the Republic of Sierra Leone was charged with the responsibility for law enforcement [Read more]

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HOW SERIOUS IS SORIOUS?

07/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

Commented By Franklin Kekura Fode-Kallay, USA. Sorious Samura Sir, Please grant me space in your widely read magazine to express my views on this hot issue. Thanks. HOW SERIOUS IS [Read more]

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The Youths of Today Have a Lot to Say.

06/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Abdulai Mansaray. With the recently concluded report on the “Bo Political Mishap “published, the spate of violence that is rearing its ugly head in local communities does not augur [Read more]

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The Puppeteer’s string: Is the I.M.C. having a laugh?

05/12/2011 Othman Sheriff

RANDOM MUSING, By Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon,  awogordon@yahoo.co.uk     “The IMC notes that since the broadcast of that programme, it has generated heated discussions on (sic) the media. The IMC [Read more]

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Timbergate: a ‘Looter’ Continua

29/11/2011 Othman Sheriff

Random musing, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon In the midst of the verifiable achievements and the pillaging and abuse of the past years, there is a compelling need, like Sorious Samura [Read more]

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The” Timbergate” Scandal in Sierra Leone.

29/11/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Abdulai Mansaray, UK The recent documentary on Sierra Leone’s timber industry aired on Al-Jazeera has been met with controversy, accusations, counter-accusations and full blown smear campaigns. While some have hailed [Read more]

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The Audacity of Youth Politics and Imperial Naivety.

26/11/2011 Othman Sheriff

By Abdulai Mansaray, CEN Political Commentator, UK Abdulai Mansaray, Author “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots” (Marcus Garvey). [Read more]

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The Twisted African Democratic Revolutions

05/09/2011 Othman Sheriff

Either in Libya, Nigeria, Chad, Egypt or Tunisia, the African nation-state, from its birth, has been in some sort of undeviating inanimate democratic revolution. The reason is that the African [Read more]

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The International Community and Africa’s Democracy Construct

05/09/2011 Othman Sheriff

Kofi Akosah-Sarpong   More than ever as Africa gets entwined in the international system, the international community is becoming increasingly part of Africa’s development. Ever more, the international community includes [Read more]

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80 Youth Graduate in Advanced Digital Literacy as YAD Boosts Employability in Sierra Leone

09/08/2026

Graduates secure jobs, promotions after nine-month ITC- supported digital skills programme. KENEMA CITY, Sierra Leone, 8 August 2026 — Eighty Sierra Leonean youth have graduated with advanced digital literacy skills [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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Looking Beyond OAU vs ECOWAS Numbers

09/08/2026

Part 1: Reassessing the “Lost Opportunity” Argument — A More Realistic Valuation of the 1980 OAU Summit Expenditure One of the strongest arguments made in comparing the 1980 OAU Summit [Read more]

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MY WRONG IS BETTER THAN YOURS: Breaking the Politics of Moral Equivalence in Sierra Leone

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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