The New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) will show the critically acclaimed Half of a Yellow Sun by National Book Critics Circle Award–winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and four [Read more]
Fanta Sesay claimed fraudulently claimed £180,500 in benefits while earning more than £240,000 from her employment She was not entitled to the benefits or allowed to work Sesay was sentenced [Read more]
I will start this article by restating an old adage: “The lip of truth shall be established forever; a lying tongue is but for a moment.” The politics of ethnicity [Read more]
On 16 May, convicted war criminal, Charles Taylor, delivered a 30-minute speech – part plea for clemency, part lubricious defence of his actions, and part grandstanding – before his trial [Read more]
Rtd. Brigadier Julius Maada Bio, the flag-bearer and presidential hopeful of the Sierra Leonean main opposition, Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), accompanied by high powered delegation from the Netherlands, began [Read more]
Salutations, Please permit me on behalf of my Party, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), to first and foremost thank the United Kingdom (UK) Government for its continued support to [Read more]
A United Nations backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague has found former Liberian leader Charles Taylor guilty of aiding and abetting war crimes during the Sierra Leone [Read more]
L-R Ahmed Nanoh (Executive Sec. SLeCAD), Abdul Conteh (IOM/TRQN), Noellen Barber (SLeCAD Consultant), Ernest Smith (IOM/TRQN) and William V. Clarkson (IOM/TRQN The Sierra Leone Chamber of Agribusiness Development (SLeCAD) in [Read more]
Almost ten months into the 2012 general election, Ghana’s ruling party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), appears to be in never-ending turmoil. The restless ex-President Jerry Rawlings, the alleged founder [Read more]
The United Nations was pressured by the president of Sierra Leone to cut short the tour of its mission chief ahead of an election later this year, the envoy said [Read more]
As part of its strive to ensure food security and promote agribusiness development in Sierra Leone, The Sierra Leone Chamber of Agribusiness Development (SLeCAD) in collaboration with IITA and USAID [Read more]
Charles Taylor’s defense lawyers have made a request for judges to allow the former Liberian president to reopen his defense, almost one year after arguments in the case were concluded. Though many people concerned have already lost interest and confidence in the trial, some still one to see how it will end. Alpha Sesay compiled this report from Monrovia, Liberia [Read more]
As the melodious wind sweeps through my fingers onboard the Murzuk ferry and the fantastic coastline leaving my sight, nostalgia seems to tighten my memory. Leaving this great country behind [Read more]
Despite the declaration of the Gola Forest as a Trans-Border Peace Park to be reserved for touristic purpose by Liberia and Sierra Leone, some local authorities are believed to be working surreptitiously with mining companies in order to jeopardize the plan with mining activities. We publish here verbatim a letter written to President Koroma by Ibrahim Ekutu Sesay, a concerned citizen. [Read more]
All social indicators predict a short, miserable life for those unlucky enough to be born Black males in America. By Phillip Jackson Welcome to America where too many young [Read more]
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