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McPhillips Travel Partners with British Airways for None-stop Flights to Salone

27/02/2013 CEN

McPhillips Travel are proud to partner with British Airways from Heathrow to Freetown Fares starting at under £699 return Baggage allowance totalling 69 kilos – 46 kilos checked and a [Read more]

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Columbia University Convenes 10th. Annual African Economic Forum

27/02/2013 Dennis Kabatto

In less than a week, Columbia University’s African student associations comprising of Columbia’s prestigious Law School, Graduate School of International and Public Affairs, Mailman School of Public Health and Columbia’s [Read more]

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Critique Column

Laser versus Razor Myth: Circumcised African Women Fight Back in the Battle Against FGM

20/02/2013 Fuambai Sia Ahmadu, PhD

Some twenty odd years ago, when I was just finishing university in the US, I chose to travel to my country of heritage – Sierra Leone – to undergo female [Read more]

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Breaking News

A Shocking News! Another Diplomatic Death in Sierra Leone Embassy in Riyadh

19/02/2013 Unisa Kanu, Riyadh

Friday, the 15th of February, 2013, witnessed the gathering of Sierra Leone nationals living in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at the Chancery of the Sierra Leone Embassy in Riyadh to [Read more]

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Breaking News

WaterAid: 1.5 Million More Sierra Leoneans Lack Access to Sanitation Than in 1990

19/02/2013 CEN

Embargoed: 12:01am GMT, Wednesday 20 February 2013  The Government of Sierra Leone is failing to keep its promises on funding for sanitation, a new report by the international development charity, [Read more]

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Sierra Leonean Lawyer Loses Bid to Sue New People Online Newspaper for Libel

18/02/2013 Dennis Kabatto

A California Appeals Court in San Francisco has ruled against Sierra Leonean born – Hayward, California based Attorney M. Alieu Iscandari in his appeal against Defendants and Respondents New People [Read more]

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Africa

What Kills One African Woman Every Minutee of Every Single Day?, The Most Important “Life” Survey You Will Read

18/02/2013 CEN

  Somewhere in AFRICA one woman dies every minute of every day from causes related to pregnancy and birth. The hardest pill to swallow for even the most successful African [Read more]

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The Former Minister of Trade and Now Chief of Staff, Dr. Richard Konteh, Named in Another Messy Brouhaha

15/02/2013 Othman Sheriff

Some Sierra Leoneans have expressed fears that the unresolved allegation made against the new Chief of Staff, Dr. Richard Konteh, of probably using his office as the then Minister of [Read more]

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Commonwealth Prejudices Electoral Fraud Case in Sierra Leone, Amidst Foul Cry From the Opposition:” 2012 Elections Were Free and Fair” Says the Secretary General

15/02/2013 Othman Sheriff

"Elections were conducted in a free, peaceful and transparent manner" Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma has released the Final Report of the Commonwealth Observer Group that observed the 17 November 2012 [Read more]

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Africa

Microsoft Sets To Fight Youth Unemployment in Africa

15/02/2013 Othman Sheriff

Unemployment remains rife on the African continent. With almost 200 million people aged between 15 and 24 in Africa today, the youth community represents more than 60 per cent of [Read more]

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The Annie Walsh Relocation Plan: President Koroma Explains His Own Part of the Story

15/02/2013 Othman Sheriff

  RELOCATION OF THE ANNIE WALSH MEMORIAL SCHOOL   THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT NOTES WITH GRAVE CONCERN THE ACRIMONY AND VITRIOLIC ATTACKS COMING FROM SOME SECTIONS OF THE PUBLIC [Read more]

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Africa

K-NET Launches New Ultrafast Unlimited Broadband Internet Services Anywhere Across Sub-Saharan Africa

01/02/2013 CEN

ACCRA, Ghana, February 1, 2013/ — K-NET (http://www.knetgh.com), a leading African telecommunications company offering triple-play voice, data and video services across sub-Saharan Africa, is pleased to announce the launch a [Read more]

Breaking News

YAD Concludes Annual TVET Graduation in Grand Style

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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]

Critique Column

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

25/01/2026

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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