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August 2013

I am aware that avid readers of my musings would often wonder why I am always lamenting the sorry state of affairs in the country and in our governance. Some would argue and correctly too, that

When recently a journalist - Jonathan Leigh - was made to sleep in the smelly cells of the country’s central maximum prison for alleged criminal defamatory libel, I was left without no option but soliloquized,

Dauda Kallon (36), farmer of Mano Njoigbla village, Lansana Kallon (50), Saffa Ellie Kallon (55), Ansumana Saffa Kallon (50), Adu Kallon (70), and Brima Saffa Kamara,. all of Mano Njoigbla village, on Wednesday 31st July

With a deep sense of patriotism and high  resolve, I am fully committed to one obligation - the obligation to devote every effort of my body, mind and spirit to lead the land that we

Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) have commenced a three day training session for Sierra Leonean Journalists at Santano House, Freetown from 31st to the 2nd August 2013 on ethical reporting on issues affecting children. The international

The Sierra Leone Red Cross Society (SLRCS) on Thursday August 1st organized a one day training workshop in Freetown on the mandate and activities of the SLRCS in peace time and situations of disasters and

The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa [GIABA] recently organized an open house forum for youths on Anti–Money Laundering/Counter financing of terrorism [AML/CFT] in Sierra Leone on the theme, “Mobilizing the youths

The people of Constituency 002, which covers Upper Bambara and Luawa chiefdoms in the Kailahun district received food items worth Le17.5M as part of the Ramadan gesture from their parliamentarian Hon. Mustapha Brima, to help

Despite some continued controversy Isha Johansen has been confirmed as the new president of the Sierra Leone Football Association. She was unopposed in Saturday's polls after three other candidates were disqualified from standing. The 48-year-old becomes just

The Minister of Trade and Industry Alhaji Usman Boie Kamara Signed a Memorandum of understanding with the United Nation Office for Project Services (UNOPS) as trust fund Manger of the Enhanced Integrated Framework Project on

An initiative to restart commercial sea transportation between Freetown and Dakar has been put forward by Her Excellency the Sierra Leone Ambassador to Senegal Khadijatu Bassir to the Senegalese Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Affairs

Founder of Jamboree Consult, the public relations unit of SaloneJamboree, Murtala Mohamed Kamara (in photo) has commended President Ernest Bai Koroma for taking the lead in the constitutional review process. The publisher of www.salonejamboree.net, www.jamboreeextra.com

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe put in place government and legal structures that may assure voters return his Zanu-PF party to national office, Afrobarometer's senior adviser, Michael Bratton writes in an article published in Foreign Affairs

Today on Al Jazeera’s global talk show South 2 North, Redi Tlhabi speaks to three film directors in the aftermath of South Africa’s Film and Publication Board banning Of Good Report, the opening night movie

At Mamurie village along the Magburaka/Kono highway, a Volvo trailer with registration number AIA-656 (front) and AIA 679 (rear) has claimed seventeen lives and twenty-two seriously injured victims at about 4:30 a.m., early Thursday morning,