The world has always faced the terror of terrorism, but 11th. September, 2001 will be forever known as the day that terrorism made its universal declaration of Human carnage; the [Read more]
Speech On Religious and Cultural Discriminations By Backar Sesay, Secretary General, Action Star Youth Club (ASYC) Mr. Chairman, His lordship the Mayor of Kenema Municipality, representatives of: line Ministries, Chiefdom [Read more]
Youth in Action for Development, YAD, is currently implementing a project titled Youth Sensitization Against Ethnic Voting, Religious and Cultural Discriminations in Sierra Leone, with funds from the United Nations [Read more]
As the year draws to a close, what comes to me, like the beams from a lighthouse in a dark and merciless sea, is that the house of cards we [Read more]
Right now, Sierra Leone is like a bridge broken at the farther end. Our conflicting interests are not only making national identity and total reconciliation so problematic, the lack of [Read more]
When JF Kennedy said “and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future”- JFK was certainly referring to those who bury their heads [Read more]
Makeni city may boast as one of the darlings of the National Power Authority, courtesy of its enviable record as the highest paying consumer city in the country. Considering that [Read more]
The two main roads running across the city of Kenema, Hangha Road and Blama Road including several of the streets in the city have turned eye sores as they have [Read more]
The scheduled elections for 2017 are a long way off and we know that a week in politics is a long time. But our current political landscape is flooded with [Read more]
Every year, five UN offices including the African Union’s (AU) New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), office of the Special Adviser on Africa, the Economic Commission on Africa, the Africa [Read more]
His Excellency, President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma continues to confirm to his nation that, in his Government, no officials, in whatever capacity, should consider themselves sacred cows. Simply put, this [Read more]
An article in the standard Times press (online) –“ Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella: the diplomat versus the candidate…the man who could be the right successor of President E.B. Koroma”, by Donald [Read more]
One of the greatest books that were ever inked from the nib of an African pen was “Things Fall Apart” by the late Chinua Achebe. This book has not only [Read more]
Al-Shabaab, or "The Youth," is an al-Qaeda-linked militant group and a U.S. designated Foreign Terrorist Organization fighting for the creation of a fundamentalist Islamic state in Somalia. The group, also [Read more]
Did you watch the last National Democratic Convention before the last term of Barack Obama’s re-election? It was pulsating, electrifying and magnetic. To most political pundits and commentators, the message [Read more]
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