Joe Hindovei Pemagbi
Eleven years after the official declaration of the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war, Charles Ghankay Taylor was sentenced last month to 50 years imprisonment by the Special Court for Sierra Leone sitting in The Hague.
Blogosphere: The best of journalism…good for Mama Salone
By Ian Hughes
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“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.” Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist.
The slow pace of Sierra Leone’s development
By Mac Jibba
Perhaps one of the simplest but most difficult questions to answer is to advance reasons for the slow pace in development of Sierra Leone as a single nation in the sub-region. Many Sierra Leoneans believe that the problems of the country are entirely external and that those external factors have plunged the country to occupy the bottom segment of the Human Development Index (HDI).
Guest Writer: In search of Koroma’s running-mate
By Ibrahim Sorie Fornah, Winnipeg, Canada
Appointing a presidential running mate is the prerogative of a presidential candidate of a political party. A running mate is a would-be vice president and a possible future president, in the event of resignation or death of the president. So the importance of a presidential running mate in a country’s election cannot be overemphasized especially so, like in our case, when he cannot be sacked simply at the will of his/her boss.
