The Security Council, welcoming the preparations in Sierra Leone for the presidential, parliamentary and local elections on 17 November, and underlining their importance as a “key benchmark” for peace consolidation in [Read more]
For years now, Sierra Leone has been like a boxer coming round after a sniff of smelling salt, with half-remembered taste, smell and sound of the day before yesterday. [Read more]
Bad weather yesterday affected the M.V Mahera Ferry which ply the sea route between Lungi and Freetown leaving the ramp damaged. According to the Ferry Captain Sheik Gibril Sesay the [Read more]
As far as Africa is concerned, prizes don't come any bigger and challenging than this – the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas Limited (NLNG) Literary prize for writers of Nigerian descent based [Read more]
A non-governmental, apolitical and non-frofitable organization operating in Kenema District, Eastern Sierra Leone is inviting applications from suitably qualified Sierra Leoneans to fill in the following vacant positions: -Project supervisor [Read more]
The Acting Director of Amnesty International in Sierra Leone, Mr. Solomon Sogbandi, says the group is working to make sure the Government of Sierra Leone abolishes the death penalty in [Read more]
The main opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has on Sunday 2nd September 2012 voted for the candidates that would be awarded the party symbol to contest for the mayoral [Read more]
“We have transferred billions of Leones to the Kenema city and district council to develop Kenema,” president Koroma said during the opening of the much publicised new Kenema shopping centre [Read more]
Just a week ago, I read and heard two of the most shocking cases of this cholera outbreak. The first case was that of a grieving mother, Salimatu Turay who [Read more]
A Non-Governmental charitable organization, Momojah Lansana Development Foundation, on last holy Friday ( August 17th 2012) donated “Sunakati” to hundreds of Muslims at the Bilali Mosque, Kissy in Freetown. The [Read more]
It profoundly saddens to announce the sudden and premature death of Mohamed Ali Jalloh, younger brother of Sierra Leone Press Attaché to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Alhaji M.B. Jalloh. [Read more]
Amnesty International says it has received “credible reports” that Gambia executed nine death row prisoners, including a woman on Thursday. Jammeh was reported to have vowed to kill all 47 [Read more]
The Clerk of Parliament, Alhaji Ibrhaim Sesay on Tuesday 21st August ordered security personnel attached to Parliament to barricade all the doors leading to the parliamentary chambers and stop all [Read more]
A recent article that was reportedly published in the August 6th edition of Awareness Times newspaper headlined “APC & Blackmail by Rebel Students in Lawlessness” (thisissierraleone.com) has drawn a lot [Read more]
“The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their respective participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It [Read more]
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