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About Othman Sheriff
Born and raised in Kenema district, eastern Sierra Leone, Othman Sheriff began practicing journalism during his school days as a youthhood hobby. With a bachelor's degree in mass-media and communication, and a Master’s degree in development and peacebuilding, Sheriff is the Editor-in-Chief and CEO of Critique Echo Newspaper. While tirelessly using journalism as a tool to place his country’s socioeconomic and political landscape under a magnifying glass, Sheriff is deeply involved in community development projects. Over the years, Sheriff has formulated and implemented billions of Leones worth of development projects with funds from Europe and USA. He is chiefly focused on community infrastructural development and economic resuscitation projects, fostering interethnic, interreligious and sociocultural cohesion among the young population in Kenema district. Sheriff is a member of many international peacebuilding initiatives including the United Religious Initiative (URI), International Association of Educators for World Peace (IAEWP), Intercultural Leaders Network and Youth Solidary Fund program of the United Nations Alliance of Civilization (UNAOC)
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Approx 100 EU Observers will be on the Ground to Monitor Elections

10/10/2012 Othman Sheriff

The European Union has said that it will monitor the presidential, parliamentary and local council elections to be held in Sierra Leone on November 17 following an invitation from authorities [Read more]

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Kenema Library Rated Top in Sierra Leone

09/10/2012 Alpha Daramy Sesay

Chairman Board of Directors of the Sierra Leone Library Board has disclosed that the Kenema library, in the east of the country, has been rated top in terms of readership. [Read more]

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Maigore Kallon Speaks Out

09/10/2012 By Kanji Daramy In Bo

Hon. Maigore Christian Kallon, 88 has angrily reacted to what in his own words “was a false publication in the Standard Times Newspaper of Tuesday 2nd October 2012 with the [Read more]

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IMC vs Awareness Times

09/10/2012 By Sorie Fofana

Since the matter between the IMC and Awareness Times newspaper is now in court, we will not attempt to comment on it. But suffice it to say that the IMC [Read more]

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Maada and Kadie Paints Freetown Green

09/10/2012 Othman Sheriff

Reports from the Sierra Leonean capital, Freetown has indicted that the flagbearer for the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) Rtd Julius Maada Bio and his running-mate, Dr. Kadie Sesay together [Read more]

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PRESIDENTIAL AND PARLIAMENTARY NOMINATION

09/10/2012 Othman Sheriff

NEC PRESS STATEMENT   Final Voters Register (FVR) 2012 Final Voters Register (FVR) for the 17th November 2012 elections is Two Million Six Hundred and Ninety Two Thousand Six Hundred [Read more]

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3Bloomberg News opportunities in Africa

02/10/2012 Othman Sheriff

Bloomberg is seeking freelance reporters with English-language capabilities for business and general news coverage in the following countries: – Mozambique – Equatorial Guinea – Sao Tome & Principe – Togo [Read more]

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Bo/Pujehun Road, a Death Trap

01/10/2012 Hassan Juana Koroma

Drivers plying the route from Bo to Pujehun have expressed grave concern over the deplorable condition of the forty miles long journey to the district describing it as a serious [Read more]

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Parliamentary Casualties

01/10/2012 Alhaji Saidu Kamara

Both the governing APC and the main opposition SLPP have lost great Parliamentarians in the ongoing party primaries conducted to elect a new set of Parliamentary candidates for elections slated [Read more]

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AFRC Men Indicted By Special Court

26/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

25 September 2012 – The United Nations-backed court set up to try suspects indicted for war crimes in Sierra Leone today found three senior members of the country’s former Armed [Read more]

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Critique Column

Kabbah in History: Should He be Hailed or Crucified?

26/09/2012 Sulaiman Momodu

In fulfilment of my promise to maintain Beyond Borders (BB) following requests from some readers to have a different perspective on issues, especially as we approach the November 17 presidential [Read more]

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400 Nigerian Female Pilgrims Detained in Saudi Arabia

24/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

Four hundred female pilgrims from Nigeria that arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia yesterday to participate in this year’s annual hajj were promptly separated from their male counterparts and detained by [Read more]

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Kambia Belongs to Us, Says The Opposition Flagbearers

24/09/2012 Othman Sheriff

As politicians crisscross the country in the name of sensitizing their electorates ahead of the November 17 polls, the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) presidential hopeful, Brig. Julius Maada Bio [Read more]

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Gbamanja Commission: A Missed Opportunity

23/09/2012 James Tamba Lebbie

When in 2009 the government set up the much-trumpeted Gbamanja commission of inquiry on the poor performance of students at basic and high school education levels comprising eminent erudites, hopes [Read more]

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Chicago Strike Over: City, Teachers Union, Chicago Publi Schools All Claim Victory while Black Children Continue to Lose

21/09/2012 Phillip Jackson

What is different for Black Chicago children two weeks after a grueling, internationally-watched, hard-fought strike than two weeks before the strike?  By most accounts, Black children will go back to [Read more]

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Critique Column

Africa and the Fifty Shades of Democracy to Make Africa Great Again.

10/05/2025

Donald Trump and Ibrahim Traore are two leaders who could be best described as “Strange Bedfellows”. Despite being similarly different, their common denominators are viewed through different lenses and prisms.  [Read more]

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True Independence & Freedom Can Only Exist In Doing What Is Right.

30/04/2025

It was 64 years last Sunday when Sierra Leone gained its independence from its colonial master, Great Britain. It marked the end of an era and the dawn of another. [Read more]

Africa

There Will Never be World Peace Until Imperialism is Dead: Hands Off Ibrahim Traore.

29/04/2025

There is no better time for African Unity than now. On April 2, General Michael Langley, a United States (US) Marine Corps, who became the sixth Commander of United States [Read more]

Africa

USA: A great generation is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from Within

23/04/2025

 Donald J Trump believes that he has the magic formula to bring back the glory days and “Make America Great Again” (MAGA). Since the Second World War, America was never [Read more]

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