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Boris Johnson, the former foreign secretary, UK said people in burkas looked like “letter boxes” or “bank robbers”. The criticisms that have greeted his remarks were obvious. The Equality and [Read more]

Isata was fired from her job for supposedly asking for a tip. She denies doing so and was not allowed to defend herself and no investigation was done. Besides the [Read more]

“I’m ready to have a little bit more autonomy and to take the lead in my own life,” Isha Sesay tells the media.  And she’s definitely taking that lead. After [Read more]

Lomé, Togo, Tuesday, 31st July 2018 – His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio received ovation at the opening ceremony of the 53rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of [Read more]

Democracy has been seen as the only salvation to the world’s political problems. Saddled with this notion is the prescription that term time limits are vital to ensure that democracy [Read more]

Two seismic shifts have taken place in the last two months in the West African state of Sierra Leone. Firstly, the man once described as a pariah presidential candidate because [Read more]

After a week of successful Commonwealth Summit in London, His Excellency President Julius Maada Bio has arrived in Doha, Qatar on Saturday 21st April 2018 for a state visit on [Read more]

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s warning, made on his first and last official visit to Africa, that “African countries” should be careful not to “forfeit their sovereignty” in their [Read more]

Turkish Airlines started flights to Freetown, as its 52nd destination to be served in Africa. Beginning today, new direct flights to Freetown (Sierra Leone) also bring the total countries and [Read more]

Donald Trump’s latest instalment of crass statements has hit the airwaves for all the wrongs reasons for the past week, in his litany of “how not to be a president”. [Read more]

When the world heard that the army in Zimbabwe had held the relic and monument of Zimbabwean politics Robert Mugabe, there was a noticeable and palpable sigh of relief. This [Read more]

Many would see the seeming “revolution” that is unfolding right before our eyes in Zimbabwe as long overdue. But there can be no running away from the fact that Mugabe [Read more]

President Donald Trump during a White House Cabinet meeting Wednesday, said he wants to terminate the Diversity Visa Lottery, a program that distributes around 50,000 visas to countries where there [Read more]