Month: November 2011

ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION CATHEDRAL HOUSE 3 GLOUCESTER STREET, FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, WEST AFRICA TEL: 232-22 221468 FAX: 232-22 221900 28th November 2011   PUBLIC EDUCATION AND EXTERNAL OUTREACH PRESS RELEASE   [Read more]

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]

By Othman Sheriff, Editor, CEN   The above documentary film was screened few days ago by the Sierra Leonean award winning journalist, Sorious Samura aided by the Arab news outlet [Read more]

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong   Ernestina Naadu Mills For the past years, the Ghana’s enlightenment movement have shown that rational choices are essential to how Africans distinguish and argue about their [Read more]

The attention of the Government of Sierra Leone has been drawn to a documentary programme aired by Al Jazeera English in its current series entitled “Africa Investigates”. Government has critically [Read more]

Journalists working for Al Jazeera English have uncovered corruption in the office of Sierra Leone’s Vice-President, Samuel Sumana. The detailed undercover investigation features in the documentary Timber!, broadcast at 22h30 [Read more]

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]

By Abdulai Mansaray, CEN Political Commentator, UK The wind of change continues to blow across the Arabian Dessert. If the recent unrest in Egypt is anything to go by, it [Read more]

By Winston Ojukutu-Macaulay Jnr Just weeks after the Human Rights Commission (HRC) released its fourth report expressing concerns about the continued Sexual and Gender Based violence in Sierra Leone, a [Read more]

LONDON, November 22, 2011/ — African visionary and international designer, Ozwald Boateng, in collaboration with Nigerian businessman, Kola Aluko, and Nigerian oil and gas company, Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Limited [Read more]

By Abdulai Mansaray, CEN Political Commentator, UK Abdulai Mansaray, Author The wind of change continues to blow across the Arabian Dessert. If the recent unrest in Egypt is anything to [Read more]

The fake surgeon who gave unsuspecting clients toxin-filled injections in their behinds to make them look bigger has been charged with practising medicine without a licence with serious bodily injury. [Read more]

Cairo: Egypt's prime minister appealed for calm and asked protesters to return to their homes Tuesday following four days of violence in Cairo, a day after the nation's Cabinet offered [Read more]