Water shortage threatens wildlife in West Africa
OUAGADOUGOU (IPS) – The story of a pair of buffalo aggressively prowling the edges of a village in eastern Burkina Faso is a warning sign of severe water stress in the region which threatens humans and wild animals alike. People in nearly half of Burkina Faso’s administrative districts could face food shortages this year, and the [...]
Austrian Ambassador Gerhard Diess pays a courtesy call on Sierra Leone’s Ambassador Khadijatu Bassir in the Gambia
The Ambassador of Austria to Senegal who is also accredited to Sierra Leone H.E. Gerhard Diess yesterday paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Khadijatu Bassir at the Sierra Leone Embassy in down town Dakar. He said the purpose of his visit was to meet his counterparts Ambassadors to whose countries he is also accredited to and [...]
What a New Year’s gift of bloodbath for Sierra Leoneans?
A political theory is playing out in Sierra Leone over the entrenched bloodbath following the vicious stabbings of political opponents of the ruling All People’s Congress Party (APC) allegedly masterminded by Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) chairman in the Fourah Bay Community, Aziz Carew. Cross sections of civil society organizations have come under a barrage of [...]
Music in Sierra Leone – The new political drive
Sierra Leone’s political debates are never complete without the introduction of protest songs. In the past, songs have had so much impact that they have even toppled governments or influence the electorate to vote the government in power into a second term of office. Mostly, uneducated people depend on songs rendered in the vernacular krio [...]
Sierra Leone’s opposition SLPP party sinks into oblivion as massive defection sees ruling APC party gain momentum
The opposition SLPP party in Sierra Leone has become the new symbol of hopelessness and disunity as huge amount of its followers and top executives defect to the ruling party in an apparent showcase of disgust over the recent selection of a mass murderer, Julius Maada Bio, as flag-bearer of the party in the upcoming presidential elections in 2012. The party hierarchy is in complete [...]
Outstanding leadership – Sierra Leone President Koroma prepares for a second consecutive term in office
Just under twelve months from now, the people of Sierra Leone will be heading to the polls once more. Its been four years since they voted in numbers to elect Ernest Bai Koroma as their president. The 2007 election was an important milestone in the history of our country. Sierra Leone needed a dramatic change. [...]
President Koroma calls on Sierra Leoneans to continue to reject political campaigns based on intimidation and ethnic sentiments and calls for citizens to be drivers of change
Sierra Leone President Ernest Bai Koroma in an address to the nation on New Year’s day said: – Fellow Sierra Leoneans, New Year’s Day is usually a time for reflection and resolutions. In 2007 you gave me the mandate to push your resolutions through for a better Sierra Leone. Four years on, my record of transformational [...]
Foreign Affairs chief is demoted in Sierra Leone as Head of Chancery and Second-Secretary at embassy in China are involved in the selling of diplomatic number plates
Following the recent brouhaha surrounding the Sierra Leone Embassy in China, the Head of State, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, has suddenly decided to act. The Director-General of Foreign Affairs in the country’s Foreign Ministry, Sulay Daramy, has apparently been demoted by being sent back to his former position at State House as State Chief of Protocol [...]
Outrage! as opposition appointed diplomats and civil servants sabotage the economy and the good image of Sierra Leone at home and abroad
Civil servants and diplomats appointed to key positions of authority and influence by the previous SLPP government in Sierra Leone, are alleged to have gone on the rampage to sabotage, destroy and ruin the economic framework that the President and government of Sierra Leone are instituting to return the country to a sound economic footing. [...]
No moral values – Julius Maada Bio has nothing to offer in the politics of Sierra Leone
When you take part in the mass execution of your fellow countrymen, and with no remorse present yourself as candidate for president, it is simply insulting to the families of those victims. Sierra Leone is witnessing a dramatic political event – where one man who was part of a group of young and undisciplined military [...]
