Month: December 2011

By Umaru Fofana, SLAJ, BBC, Freetown 2012 is here. The elections are near. Politicians have started greeting people by their name. Absentee and no-do-gooder parliamentarians, council chairmen and councillors have [Read more]

By Alexander Bratersky Late North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (l) with President Dmitry Medvedev during a summit in Siberia in August this year. The sudden death of maverick North [Read more]

By Kay-Alexander Scholz German President Christian Wulff has broken his silence over an undisclosed home loan from a friend. The president apologized for not being more open, but said he [Read more]

By Kofi Akosah-Sarpong, CEN Commentator, USA Sierra Leone is a perfect example of how the African politician should do away with the absurd juju-marabou spiritualism – if Africa is to [Read more]

By Abdulai Mansaray, UK The English Football Association charged Luis Suarez of Liverpool Football club with misconduct and in the bargain, banned him for 8 games and fined £40.000 for [Read more]

By Othman Sheriff, Editor, CEN On behalf of all Sierra Leoneans at home and the Diaspora, I wish to hereby register my greatest concern about the publication in the Lynn [Read more]

By State House Communications Unit Freetown- The commencement ceremony of the China-aided road rehabilitation project and the construction of the Charlotte Hydro Power Project was marked by an official turning [Read more]

By Ibrahim Tarawallie   The Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone yesterday came under serious bashing from the United States Embassy in Freetown for not having Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and [Read more]

RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon, awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Let’s end the game of wits.     We all know that politicians when whipped into mob frenzy can take banality to frightening [Read more]

The Transnational Crime Unit of the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) are presently investigating a 40ft container full of disposable pampers usually used by infants. The container marked MRKU 2393976 according [Read more]

A high-level meeting, bringing together members of the UN Security Council, General Assembly and Peace Building Commission at the UN headquarters in New York on Wednesday condemned persistent attacks by [Read more]

RANDOM MUSING, by Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon, awogordon@yahoo.co.uk Blood is not simply red – it stains. Covenants without swords are but mere words. When the hunter is afraid of his gun, [Read more]

  U.S. Representative Hank Johnson, colleagues disturbed by reports of high-level corruption in partner country   WASHINGTON, D.C. — Eighteen members of the U.S. Congress today wrote U.S. Secretary of [Read more]