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  • [ 03/02/2019 ] The Betrayal Of Trust Carries A Heavy Taboo. Critique Column
  • [ 29/11/2025 ] CELEBRATING S.B.B. DUMBUYA AT 80 — The Teacher Who Formed a Generation Critique Column
  • [ 25/11/2025 ] CONVERTING MINES MINISTER MATTIA’S OP-ED ON SIMANDOU INTO ACTION Critique Column
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Youth Empowerment In Post Conflict Sierra Leone: How Far Are We Prepared To Go?

10/12/2018 Othman Sheriff

Major global leaders have adopted over the years, diverse policies that ensure empowerment of young people all over the world.  The commonwealth for example, has series of funding windows through [Read more]

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YAD Wins King Hamad Award for Youth Empowerment

27/02/2018 CEN

Sunday, 25th February 2018 added another chapter to the endless pages of YAD’s success story as the organization bags the King Hamad Youth Empowerment Award 2018. The unprecedented ceremony took [Read more]

Critique Column

KKY’s Alliance With the National Grand Caoalition Movement: Pros and Cons

02/10/2017 Othman Sheriff

Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, alias KKY, formally resigned from the Sierra Leone People’s Party few weeks ago after years of intraparty gymnastic full of oral and physical abuses. KKY’s resignation [Read more]

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ITSTIME TO “BIG UP” THE SALONE YOUTHS.

09/09/2017 Abdulai Mansaray

We know that with the war, their innocence and vulnerability were callously preyed on by the adult world to devastating consequences. When we had the Ebola outbreak, the youths were [Read more]

America

Participate in the Second Annual Kono Conference in Washington DC

01/08/2017 CEN

KONO CONFERENCE: PAVING THE WAY FOR BETTER PROSPECTS UNDERSTANDING THE PAST, MARKING THE CHALLENGES AND SHAPING OUR FUTURE Announcing The Second Annual Kono Conference in Washington DC, 7am to 6pm, [Read more]

Critique Column

They Say “Youth are the Future Leaders”, When, Where and What is the Future?

21/08/2016 Othman Sheriff

Postcolonial Sierra Leone has experienced endless unenviable history ranging from dictatorship rule,  brutal civil war, military putsches to a staggering democratic system that is riddled by graft, tribal, regional and [Read more]

Critique Column

Ambassador Kamara Clarifies the Smear Campaign over the Kuwaiti House Maids Issue: My Rejoinder

23/05/2016 Othman Sheriff

I’m a Muslim to the bone and can read Quran without a hiccup but I find it disgusting and unimaginable, the way and manner poor African women are being treated [Read more]

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Ambassador Kamara Clarifies the Smear Campaign over the Kuwaiti House Maids Issue

23/05/2016 M. B. Jalloh, Press Attaché, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States

 The issue of maltreatment of Sierra Leonean House maids in the State of Kuwait is a subject that has been circulating over the social media for some time now and [Read more]

Diasporal Exclusive

Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend; Except if You Live in Kono District,

22/04/2016 Abdulai Mansaray

The Kono descendants have called for a worldwide demonstration on the 23/04/16 at the offices of Tiffany & Co in London.  According to information, Tiffany & Co is sharing a [Read more]

Critique Column

Abie’s Ailment Was a Lesson for Me and You

03/03/2016 Othman Sheriff

Good morning my noble readers. I disappeared from this column 3 months ago due to unavoidable reasons and I owe you apology for any disappointment. I was busy implementing development [Read more]

Africa

If Voting Changed Anything, They’d Abolish It

27/12/2015 Abdulai Mansaray

You don’t need an Einstein, a Pythagoras or Darwin to figure out that western Democracy is a semantic anomaly that only works in the West. There are a lot of [Read more]

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KKY Rebrands Sierra Leone at Global Stage as He Continue to Win the Hearts of Global Leaders

29/09/2015 CEN

Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella has been appointed as one of the commissioners of the new Global Energy Transition Commission. Kandeh is the only African to be appointed to the Commission, [Read more]

Critique Column

Is the SLPP Flagbearer Contest Degenerating Into a South-East Versus Northwest Match?

12/09/2015 Othman Sheriff

As I already stated in my yesterday’s rejoinder to the tribally motivated “verification committee” led by no other a person but Edward Soloku who is a well-known pro-Paopa top gun [Read more]

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Interview With Dr. Kandeh Yumkella on Eliminating Energy Poverty in Sierra Leone

06/08/2015 Dennis Kabatto

After two decades of service as a leader in international development cooperation, promoting important initiatives for global sustainable development, Sierra Leonean born Dr. Kandeh Yumkella – former United Nations Under-Secretary [Read more]

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Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella, What a Great Opportunity For SLPP and Sierra Leone!!

05/07/2015 Othman Sheriff

KKY, as usually called by his fans, does not only possess indelible track records and success stories in countless files at the world stage, he also possess the leadership charisma [Read more]

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Critique Column

CELEBRATING S.B.B. DUMBUYA AT 80 — The Teacher Who Formed a Generation

29/11/2025

This week, Mr. Sheku Badara Bashiru Dumbuya, affectionately known to thousands of former pupils simply as SBB, turned 80 years old.   Eighty is a milestone that invites reflection—not only [Read more]

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CONVERTING MINES MINISTER MATTIA’S OP-ED ON SIMANDOU INTO ACTION

25/11/2025

When Minister Julius Daniel Mattia wrote his op-ed on Guinea’s Simandou 2040, he was not just offering congratulations across a friendly border. His words carried the rhythm of an older [Read more]

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THE WOMAN PRESIDENT. NEXT.

25/11/2025

Two important questions women (and men allies), especially those in politics, should and must ask in preparation for Sierra Leone’s 2028 elections are these: 1) If there are no SLPP, [Read more]

Critique Column

Beyond Inspiration: Mining Governance in Sierra Leone and the Missed Lessons of Simandou 2040

25/11/2025

On 12 November 2025, I read with interest an op-ed reflection shared on WhatsApp by Sierra Leone’s Honourable Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius Daniel Mattai, titled “Mining a [Read more]

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