The Public Accounts Commission chairman of the British House of Commons, the Rt. Hon. Edward Leigh said he would relay the concerns of former British Foreign Minister Denis MacShane who claims that British aid to Sierra Leone is being siphoned by senior politicians in the West African Country, to the Comptroller and Auditor General of [...]
Somali government forces and al Shabaab rebels in the north of the Somali capital Mogadishu have been engaged in intense fighting that has left 17 people dead and 65 wounded. This is according to a Somali human rights group. It has also been reported that Al-Shabaab beheaded two employees of a telecoms company who they [...]
It has come to the knowledge of this press that the Anti-Corruption commissioner himself may have become corrupt. Some of the allegations levied against Abdul Tejan Cole range from abuse of power to becoming politicised by the current regime. He has gone out of his scope and seems to clamour around political influence in the [...]
The man presiding over the implementation of law and order in Sierra Leone is an unusually crafty politician, who for many years, long before entering politics, have been renowned to be corrupt and unworthy of holding any office of state. Abdul Serry Kamal is a trained lawyer who instead of using his skills at the [...]
During the tenure of Tony Blair as British Prime Minister, Africa was at the center of British Foreign policy. A Commission for Africa was established by Tony Blair to recommend solutions that will improve the economic and social conditions of the continent. Little did the world knew that this was a master plan for the [...]
When you have the President of a nation engaging in sexual promiscuity at a disgraceful level unaccepted in modern society, you have no choice but to question his sanity and ponder whether South Africans have made a regrettable mistake by voting in numbers to elect this mad man of insatiable sexual appetite as Head of [...]
Are the people of Zimbabwe really celebrating Robert Mugabe’s 86th Birthday? What is there to celebrate about this aberrant human form? Thirty years in power and nothing good to show for it. He is determined to cling on to power for the rest of his life despite embarrassingly losing an election to a more dignified [...]
Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja has been overthrown in a military coup. He was ousted by a group of soldiers calling themselves the Supreme Council for the restoration of Democracy, CSDR. They captured Tandja and his ministers in a four-hour gun battle, before suspending the constitution and dissolving all state bodies. Three people are thought to [...]
Somewhere in London, deliberating on his success and probably a glass of ice-rock vodka in his hands, Frank Timis must be filled with excitement and accomplishment as his venture in Sierra Leone has started to yield results. Timis has invested faith and trust in his sense of discernment and has allowed his instinct which has [...]
According to the European Union, the sanctions on Zimbabwe will continue for another year. In a statement, the EU said it will extend its sanctions on the Southern African country for another 12 months, citing a lack of progress in implementing the agreed power-sharing accord. Since its formation last year, the unity government established between [...]
The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Dr Ernest Bai Koroma has witnessed the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the government, Addax Bio-energy Sierra Leone and the Addax & Oryx Group that will see USD 400 million to be invested over the next few years in the country’s Agribusiness sector. In keeping [...]
