Critique Column

Gamers learn how to conduct an investigation report on environmental crimes   For World Maritime Day today, 25 September 2014, Al Jazeera has launched a ground-breaking interactive web game based [Read more]

What started few weeks ago as an isolated incident in the forest region of Guinea has now metastasized into a “complex emergency”. Though in the UN we typically reserve this [Read more]

Minstry of Health and Sanination   PRESS RELEASE                                                                            EBOLA OUTBREAK UPDATES—September 19, 2014   DISCHARGED CASES Total Survived and Released Patients  =  367 NEW CASES New Confirmed cases  [Read more]

Credit where credit is due. The decibel breaking legislators and members of the executive arm of government bellowing their innocence and showing their displeasure at what they perceive as the [Read more]

Can the use of basic technology such as television programs, radios and possibly internet access be a useful tool in educating particularly Sierra Leonean children during this Ebola crisis? What [Read more]

Protect Health Workers, Limit Quarantines, Promote Transparency  (Nairobi, September 15, 2014) –West African governments should ensure rights protections as a crucial element in controlling the unprecedented Ebola epidemic ravaging the [Read more]

WASHINGTON, September, 16, 2014 – The World Bank Group’s (WBG) Board of Executive Directors today approved a US$105 million grant to finance Ebola-containment efforts underway in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra [Read more]

Is it me or what? I mean from indications, most of our political leaders are obviously a genre of those who missed the last bus to the real world. It [Read more]

Whenever it's election time in Sierra Leone, politicians always present catalogues of unfulfillable promises to the gullible and less informed voters. Some even promise constructing bridges where there are no [Read more]

Sierra Leone plans a three-day nationwide lockdown in an effort to halt an Ebola outbreak that has killed hundreds, a move that a leading medical charity said Saturday will not [Read more]

It is unfortunate that we are learning about the deadly Ebola in a hard way, with hundreds of dedicated and innocent compatriots paying the supreme price with their lives.   [Read more]

Oh my God! As the Ebola epidemic continue to cripple our already battered economy, the government has signed again another contract of waste, mismanagement and embezzlement of the desperately needed [Read more]

 In part two of The Battle for Africa, Emmy-winning Sierra Leonean journalist Sorious Samura travels to Ghana and Botswana in search of that most scarce of African commodities – good [Read more]