July 2019 – Critique Echo Newspaper

The Denial of Racism is a form of Racism Itself

25/07/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

One of the best known confessions in the history of mankind was made by Martin Niemöller, and this could be found in the United States Holocaust Museum; First they came [Read more]

Exclusive Interview with Former IG, Keith Biddle

25/07/2019 Alhaji Jalloh

He made the name, Sierra Leone Police (SLP) force fashionable by simply ascribing to it the buzz-phrase, ‘a force for good’ and it helped to rebuild moral. Before then, some [Read more]

Communities Should Be Able To Determine The Terms On Which Minerals Are Extracted From Their Land

25/07/2019 By Sonkita Conteh, Director, Namati Sierra Leone

The river died a while back- a victim of the quest for gold. Its muddy waters bereft of any life. For Mamanke and other villages, Pampana River was everything – [Read more]

Ministry Of Youth Affairs Celebrate World Skills Day

25/07/2019 CEN

Ministry of Youth Affairs Stadium Hostels, Second Floor Freetown 15th July, 2019 PRESS RELEASE MINISTRY OF YOUTH AFFAIRS JOINS THE UNITED NATIONS TO CELEBRATE WORLD SKILLS DAY FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, [Read more]

Parliament Debates Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2019

12/07/2019 CEN

The Parliament of Sierra Leone has on Thursday 11th July 2019 debated the Bill entitled “The Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 2019” and committed to the Legislative Committee for further scrutiny [Read more]

Give Back to Caesar What is Caesar’s, and to The People what is the People’s.

12/07/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

Social media has been inundated with comments from readers since news broke out that President Bio has paid out millions of dollars to the former President, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma [Read more]

Growth and Change are Painful Leaps in the Dark we must take.

06/07/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

The Lungi Bridge has been a talking point for many Sierra Leoneans lately and the amount of coverage has been well deserved. While some see it as the right step [Read more]

NYS Executive Director Inspires Sierra Leonean Youths

04/07/2019 Elkass Sannoh

The Executive Director, National Youth Service- Onanah Jalloh, whilst inspiring Sierra Leonean youths at the 2019 Youth Accountability Forum on Education and Gender Equality, he said young people should not [Read more]

Random Musing: Dancing on Ice

04/07/2019 Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon

It was and is not our colonial masters that set us against each other. It is not just the political class that has disrobed us of the courage and the [Read more]

A Bridge too far or Sierra Leone’s New Abuja?

02/07/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

There is no doubt that the world we live in today is full of complexities. But more to this, is the irrefutable fact that the world is increasingly becoming divided [Read more]

NGOs Converge On Their Current State Of Affairs

14/09/2023

At an emergency membership meeting held on Friday, 8th September, 2023 at the St Anthony Hall, Syke Street, Freetown, NGOs gathered to chart a way forward in their affairs, as [Read more]

Critique Column

When Dictatorship Is A fact, Revolution Becomes A Right.,

11/09/2023

We are living in a world that is drowning in a wealth of information but afflicted by poverty of thought. Such a notion conjures images of social media, with all [Read more]

Critique Column

If Voting Made Any Difference, Would They Let Us Do It?

04/09/2023

The US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken issued a press statement on 31 August, 2023 on the visa restriction policy to be applied in Sierra Leone. Here is the [Read more]

Critique Column

Is Sierra Leone’s Democracy Worthy of Emulation?

24/08/2023

The general election in Sierra Leone has come and gone. The drums may appear to have fallen silent, but like a swimming duck, there’s on going diplomatic gymnastics bubbling underneath [Read more]