August 2024 – Critique Echo Newspaper

Has Democracy Lost Its Utility?

31/08/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

“A government by the people, of the people and for the people” has always been the most celebrated and simplest definition of DEMOCRACY. Conventional wisdom has it that the term [Read more]

The United States of America: A Democracy of Ironies

06/08/2024 Abdulai Mansaray

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the [Read more]

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How United, is The United Nations?

23/09/2024

The United Nations, with a current membership of 193 was established in 1945. After the United Nations’ Charter was ratified by its main proponents China, France, The United Kingdom, The [Read more]

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If The Best Politics Is The Right Action, Charity Must Begin at Home.

17/09/2024

As Sierra Leone’s politics oscillates between the SLPP and APC, it sometimes takes a lot of effort, reflection and in most cases honest humility to come to terms with losing [Read more]

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When Complacency Becomes The Enemy of Stability……In Politics.

09/09/2024

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has through its multilateral armed force ECOMOG, a history of successful military interventions to “restore constitutional order within the region. To sports [Read more]

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Let The Punishment Fit The Crime, But Don’t Mistake The Law for Justice.

04/09/2024

Although politics in Sierra Leone today is undergoing some form of altered consciousness, thanks to the tribal, regional and base instincts that sometimes strangulate our collective will for national development, [Read more]