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Kabs Kanu Responds to Mustapha Sesay’s Letter

06/11/2016 Kabs Kanu, Cocorioko Online

When some Sierra Leoneans always respond to salient analyses of national issues with a rush of blood to their heads, abandoning their thinking caps,  you should  always expect disjointed thinking, [Read more]

Critique Column

ECOWAS Court Cannot Reverse a Supreme Court Verdict or Enforce on a Member State an Undomesticated Treaty

06/11/2016 Mustapha Sesay, former National SLAJ Secretary General

Open Letter to Leeroy Kabbs Kanu Dear Mr Kanu, Please find below a rejoinder to your article titled, ‘ECOWAS Court cannot reverse a Supreme Court verdict or enforce on a member [Read more]

Critique Column

ECOWAS Court Cannot Reverse a Supreme Court Verdict or Enforce on a Member State an Undomesticated Treaty

06/11/2016 Kabs Kanu, Cocorioko Online

When I listened to the MAMBA TV ‘s audio   interview of people it claimed were approached on the streets ( Though there is no evidence by way of video [Read more]

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Sierra Leone, UAE Sign Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement

31/10/2016 Alhaji M.B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Republic of Sierra Leone last week signed an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement in the commercial Emirati city of Dubai. The Deputy Minister [Read more]

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A Country of Pain and Penury – Busted Beyond Repairs?

31/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

One day a florist went to a barber for a haircut. After the cut, he asked about his bill, and the barber replied, ‘I cannot accept money from you, I’m [Read more]

Breaking News

YAD Signs Revolving Loan Contract With Young Photographers in Kenema District

29/10/2016 CEN

Youth in Action for Development has on past Friday supported young photographers in Kenema district. The colourful ceremony which took place at YAD’s Multipurpose Youth Resource Centre at Duawoh Street [Read more]

Random Musing

PART 2: The Criminalisation of Critical Thinking.

24/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

One of the huge elephants in the room of our national existence is the fact that for so long our cockroach (the nation) has been willing to dance in the [Read more]

Salone News

Freedom of Speech is not a License to Abuse. It is a Responsibility.

24/10/2016 Abdulai Mansaray

It has always been a widely held belief that the main purpose of journalism is to inform, educate and entertain. But the art of journalism can only flourish in a [Read more]

Random Musing

The Criminalisation of Critical Thinking.

24/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

“Development is a tough process and prosperity does not come on a silver platter.” These two things require effective collaboration and perseverance, not “layback theoretical prescriptions” and “half-hearted political grandstanding” [Read more]

Critique Column

Dancing On a Roulette Wheel as Future Problems Germinate Before Our Eyes.

19/10/2016 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

Came back from a West African tour to the increasing discourse about the national economic realities; as our hustlers’ paradise begin to unravel. That mighty white elephant in the room [Read more]

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Is Sierra Leone’s Economy Under Economic Recession?

19/10/2016 Mohamed C. Bah NDA leader/Flagbearer 2018

Real economic recession is defined as a decline in Gross Domestic product (GDP).The economic health of a nation depends on the growth of the GDP, the rate of inflation and [Read more]

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AUSTERITY, AUSTERITY, AUSTERITY!!!!!!!Mr. President, beware of your legacy.

19/10/2016 Abdulai Mansaray

This was one word I always prayed, will be banished from the political vocabulary of our country; because I saw, felt, and tasted what AUSTERITY was. This is no attempt [Read more]

Breaking News

Government to Implement Policy Measures to Tackle Economic Slowdown

04/10/2016 CEN

The government today agreed to implement a wide range of policy measures to address the current economic challenges facing the country following an emergency Cabinet meeting this morning at State [Read more]

Africa

West Africa Single Currency: The Lesson to Learn From European Single Currency

04/10/2016 Dr. Mehenou Amouzou

Western Africa states which are represented by Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), a commission comprised of countries of 15 States with an equivalent of 300 million people. These [Read more]

Africa

AMR GoldAttends World Bank Symposium on Sierra Leone Economic Recovery

04/10/2016 CEN

AMR Gold new Country Director-Luke Rogers on Thursday, 15th September 2106 attended a one day symposium organized by a member of the World Bank Group. The “Meet the Buyer” Symposium [Read more]

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Critique Column

Farewell to a Trailblazer – Dr Kadi Sesay (1949–2025)

16/06/2025

Dr Kadi Sesay, feminist, scholar, politician, and pro-democracy advocate, passed away in the United States after a prolonged illness. She was 76. Family sources confirmed her death after a prolonged [Read more]

Critique Column

In A War Of Egos, The Loser Always Wins

10/06/2025

The fallout from the “bromance” between Trump and Elon Musk was just a matter of time before the final blowout. Recent reports about the implosion between the most powerful man [Read more]

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With Organised Hypocrisy, People’s Indifferences & Impunity Are the Best Breeding Grounds for Corruption to Grow.

31/05/2025

An article titled “SLPP accused of planning to steal 2028 elections by creating new electoral districts in its stronghold and Freetown” (thesierraleonetelegraph.com (May 29-2025) seems to invoke post 2023 general [Read more]

Critique Column

An Idiot’s Guide to Winning an Election.

28/05/2025

If a week is a long time in politics, think of what five years in opposition feels like. After a 10 year stint in power, the APC Party found itself [Read more]

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