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With Ghana already exploiting its newly discovered oil wealth and hopes of Sierra Leone and Liberia soon to join the league of oil exporting nations, it is of little surprise that the World Bank has made this appointment. Natural resource rich African countries need to break the affliction of resource curse that has blighted the continent for far too long [Read more]

Balotelli, the Manchester City striker has been described variously from eccentric, stupid, enigmatic, gifted, extrovert, to charismatic. But Abdulai Mansaray opined that it is the striker’s unpredictability on and off the pitch that makes him stand out. [Read more]

French authorities announced last month that the government would pay for the removal of false breast implants made by a now bankrupt company, Poly Implant Protheses, (PIP) which a British medical group says were made from “non-medical grade silicone believed by the manufacturers to be made for mattresses.” Founder of the company, Jean-Claude Mas, has been arrested at last [Read more]

President Koroma’s “youth empowerment strategy” and “agenda for change” seemed to also include replacement of lazy professors with energetic youths. The recent demonstration is the removal of though highly qualified but less resourceful Minister of Energy and Water Resources, Prof. Ogunlade Davidson [Read more]

Mr. J.B. Dauda announced a rigorous reformation plan in the Sierra Leonean diplomatic service shortly after his appointment as Foreign Minister. He promised to recall home, without any exception, all diplomats who have served more than four years abroad. But it looks like some diplomats are more diplomatic than the others as State House seemed to interfere with the process. [Read more]

WASHINGTON: On the week marking the 10 year anniversary of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Professor Jeffrey Sachs and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Health for [Read more]

Your Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma here is a question for you: When you would have served the years God has ordained for you as President of Mama Sa Lone, what will you be remembered for? [Read more]

The Arab revolutionists are constantly chanting DEMOCRASY in their fights against the autocratic regimes. But one would wonder whether they really want the Western DEMOCRACY, or something else… Abdulai Mansary presents a critical view about the situation with special emphasis on the ongoing hullabaloo in Syria [Read more]

Several police officers and the local commissioner are under investigation over the escape of Boko Haram leader Kabiru Sokoto . A 50 million naira ($307,000) reward was also offered by police Thursday for any information leading to Sokoto’s re-arrest. [Read more]

Pervasive calm has returned to the Fourah Bay community after electoral violence perpetrated by supporters of the country’s two main political parties, APC and SLPP, leaving some party stalwarts hospitalized. Dennis Kabatto reports on the latest… [Read more]

Electoral violence is not simply a political problem. It is a national issue whose poison will spill over into our compounds as revolting chants of desperadoes increasingly raise the temperature of those sickened by naked use of power and by the sickening arrogance of nit wits. [Read more]

National teams from Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal, are all determined to lift the cup for their supporters back home. They have called on governments and the international community to show equal determination to help protect millions currently threatened by a looming food crisis across the Sahel region
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For the first time in the history of AIDS, Africa has the best chance now to protect women, men and children everywhere from new HIV infections and to keep people living with HIV aliveR11;R11;this must now be the ultimate goal for Africa [Read more]