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British MP Accuses Government Ministers in Sierra Leone of Misappropriating DFID Funds Meant For Aid

British MP Accuses Government Ministers in Sierra Leone of Misappropriating DFID Funds Meant For Aid

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 [...]

March 11 2010 | Posted in Breaking News, Sierra Leone, West Africa | Read More »

Mayhem in Somalia as Al-Shabaab Behead 2 Somali Telecoms Employees

Mayhem in Somalia as Al-Shabaab Behead 2 Somali Telecoms Employees

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 [...]

March 11 2010 | Posted in East Africa, Headline News, Somalia | Read More »

Anti-Corruption Commissioner Becomes Politicised as he Embarks on a Radical Witch-hunt in Sierra Leone

Anti-Corruption Commissioner Becomes Politicised as he Embarks on a Radical Witch-hunt in Sierra Leone

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 [...]

March 11 2010 | Posted in Breaking News, Sierra Leone, West Africa | Read More »

Blatant Corruption As Law Enforcement Chief is accused of Extortion in Sierra Leone

Blatant Corruption As Law Enforcement Chief is accused of  Extortion in Sierra Leone

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 [...]

March 10 2010 | Posted in Breaking News, Sierra Leone, West Africa | Read More »

Tony Blair Talks About His Motivation for Africa in an Exclusive Interview With Newstime Africa’s Ahmed Kamara

Tony Blair Talks About His Motivation for Africa in an Exclusive Interview With Newstime Africa’s Ahmed Kamara

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 [...]

March 9 2010 | Posted in Headline News, Liberia, Sierra Leone, West Africa | Read More »

The Sins of Jacob Zuma

The Sins of Jacob Zuma

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 [...]

March 3 2010 | Posted in Around Africa, Headline News, South Africa, Southern Africa | Read More »

Celebrating the Birthday of an African Dictator

Celebrating the Birthday of an African Dictator

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 [...]

February 21 2010 | Posted in Around Africa, Breaking News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe | Read More »

Another Military Coup in Africa As Niger’s Tandja is Ousted

Another Military Coup in Africa As Niger’s Tandja is Ousted

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 [...]

February 19 2010 | Posted in Breaking News, Niger, West Africa | Read More »

African Minerals on Track in Sierra Leone as 9.7 Billion Tonnes of Iron Ore Discovered – Making it the Largest Deposits in the World

African Minerals on Track in Sierra Leone as 9.7 Billion Tonnes of Iron Ore Discovered – Making it the Largest Deposits in the World

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 [...]

February 17 2010 | Posted in Headline News, Sierra Leone, West Africa | Read More »

Zimbabwe Sanctions Will Go on for Another Year

Zimbabwe Sanctions Will Go on for Another Year

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 [...]

February 16 2010 | Posted in Around Africa, Breaking News, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe | Read More »

4,000 Jobs Created as President Koroma Secures $400 Million Bio-fuel investment for Sierra Leone

4,000 Jobs Created as President Koroma Secures $400 Million Bio-fuel investment for Sierra Leone

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 [...]

February 9 2010 | Posted in Headline News, Sierra Leone, West Africa | Read More »