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Minister Gaojia Leads Sierra Leone Delegation to 56th Session of CSW in New York

28/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

From  the Department of Information and Public Affairs at the Permanent Mission of Sierra Leone to the United Nations    The Minister of Social Welfare , Gender and Children's Affairs, [Read more]

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Jerry Rawlings On The Enlightenment Cylinder

28/02/2012 Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

Suddenly, ex-President Jerry Rawlings has had epiphany about the on-going Ghana/African enlightenment movement. Face-to-face with some lethal cultural inhibitions that have been demeaning Ghanaians’/Africans’ humanity, Rawlings, in the manner of [Read more]

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RANDOM MUSING: The Challenge of the Moment

24/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

History has shown that ordinary people, with a common purpose can take on an incredible challenge and accomplish goals they never dreamt possible.   So the task ahead of us [Read more]

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‘Designated Title to UDM Leader Must Have Been an Administrative Error ‘ : Information Minister

24/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

Sent to CEN by Cocorioko   The Minister of Information and Communications, Hon. Ibrahim Ben Kargbo , has called on all Sierra Leoneans to move away from the Michael Schulenburg [Read more]

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The Mixed Feelings About a Possible Israeli Military Strike on Iran

24/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

Almost the entire senior hierarchy of Israel's military and security establishment is worried about a premature attack on Iran and apprehensive about the possible repercussions, a former chief of the [Read more]

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Salone Gets Automatic Weather Stations

24/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

According to a UNDP statement, Sierra Leone’s Meteorological Department (SLMD) has installed the final set of six state of the art Automatic Weather Stations (AWS) at the Lungi International Airport, [Read more]

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Who Caused Schulenburg’s Recall?

24/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

The Head of the UN Mission and Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in Sierra Leone, Mr. Michael von Schulenburg, was recently recalled by the Secretary General in New [Read more]

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Pope Benedict Losts Control of the Makeni Diocese in Northern Sierra Leone

22/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

Members of the Laity Council of the Makeni Diocese past Monday walked out of a meeting with the College of Bishops after the reading of their position statement in a [Read more]

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The Tribal Support Of Gargantuan Crimes In Ghana

22/02/2012 Kofi Akosah-Sarpong

The mind-set of fifteen traditional chiefs and queen-mothers, from the Tongu area in Ghana’s Volta Region, descending on the National Police Headquarters in Accra, to sympathize with their tribes-man, Alfred [Read more]

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Africa

Ministers, Senior UN and International Officials Call for ‘Sustainable Energy for All’ in Africa by 2030

22/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

  PRESS RELEASE   February 22, 2012/ — Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and Adnan Amin, Director General of the International Renewable Energy Agency [Read more]

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Talking About the Mayorship of Freetown

19/02/2012 Winston Ojukutu-Macauley

Every day in recent weeks, I have found myself confronted with the question of who should be the next Mayor of Freetown. In many of the discussions that follows the [Read more]

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UNHCR: Over 2 Decades Welcome Ends

19/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

More than 60,000 Liberian refugees spread in countries of the West African sub region will no longer be accepted under such status beginning July 1 this year, the UN refugee [Read more]

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Is this the End of The Arsene Empire?

19/02/2012 Abdulai Mansaray

From the north of the Limpopo, right down to the south of the Sahara, pre-colonial empires have risen and fallen.  There was the Songhai, the Mutapa, Ghana, Mali and right [Read more]

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German President Resigns Amid Media Criticism

17/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

German President Christian Wulff resigned in disgrace today, finally bowing to pressure and a lack of trust on the back of months of revelations about blurred lines between personal, business [Read more]

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Dear Mr President: A Note of Caution Sir!

16/02/2012 Othman Sheriff

The recent statement by Retired Brigadier Mr Maada Bio in relation to combatants and plans by the ruling party to create chaos and anarchy in traditional opposition areas has certainly [Read more]

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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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Democracy After Empire: George M. Carew’s Case for Deliberation in Postcolonial Africa

25/01/2026

A familiar strain of Western political theory has long portrayed African states as inherently incapable of self-government—an outlook that endured both the rhetoric of colonial “civilizing missions” and the administrative [Read more]

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BARMAGEDDON- (An E-Bar Exclusive) 004: A Constitution Rewritten for Order, Not for Liberty

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There is a peculiar habit in young democracies. They rewrite their constitutions not when liberty is openly threatened, but when authority feels insufficiently secure. The Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) [Read more]

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