First published in the Rights and Resources edition of the Perspectives Africa series of the Heinrich Boell Foundation Introduction When a diamond mining company closed its operations in Mofuwe Village, in the [Read more]
Fourah Bay College lecturers have started an indefinite stay-at-home strike over pay and conditions. They say the central Govt had reneged on an agreement reached with them five years ago [Read more]
AFRICAN POLITICS: IS CHANGING THE CONSTITUTION AND STAYING IN POWER BEYOND TERM LIMITS A SHOW OF LOVE FOR ONE’S COUNTRY OR JUST A WAY OF IGNORING THE VOICE OF THE [Read more]
THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS HEREBY INFORMED THAT IN REVIEWING THE OVERALL GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE, IT HAS PLEASED HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT DR. ERNEST BAI KOROMA TO ANNOUNCE THE FOLLOWING MINISTERIAL, AMBASSADORIAL, [Read more]
The Minister of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED) Dr. Kalfala Marah in late December last year described President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma as the “champion of development” since Sierra Leone [Read more]
A total of four people including a police officer from the Operational Support Division [OSD] of the Sierra Leone Police have been dismissed from work. They were relieved from their [Read more]
The President Justice Philip N. Waki of the UN backed Special War Crimes Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) on Wednesday 9th March ordered the arrest and detention of former Civil [Read more]
The Head of Media, Community Relation Department, Kenema police station, Brima James Musa has outlined strategies the police have put in place to combat any spill over to Kenema of [Read more]
In a press release disseminated this morning by President Koroma’s media team, the Minister of Social Welfare, Gender and Children Affairs and his deputy have been sacked unconditionally. The President [Read more]
An Orchestra conductor does not face the crowd. President Koroma’s insistence on doing just that, more than leading the country in getting our national priorities right and championing pivotal points [Read more]
I’m aware that most readers are busy recovering from the weekend’s festivities and thinking of the merriment to usher out our annus horribilis – 2015. Either in marking the two [Read more]
What used to be the exception is now becoming a norm; Chelsea losing match after match on a weekly basis. Every defeat is followed by the mantra; “the players are [Read more]
Today, 7th November 2015, Sierra Leone has been officially declared Ebola free by the World Health Organisation, after meeting the standard requirement of 42 days without a new case of [Read more]
No new Ebola case in Kono as rumored. Freetown, Sierra Leone – 5 November 2015: There is no new Ebola case in Sierra Leone today, day 41 of the countdown [Read more]
The SLPP Germany chapter is poised to elect a new executive on Saturday, 7th November this year and there is frenzied campaign ongoing behind the scene. According to a WhatsApp [Read more]
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