Feature

By Mabinty M. Kamara

Deployed approximately 413 kilometres away from the capital city, Freetown, with over 60 kilometres of the journey traversing challenging terrains to reach the foot of the Loma Mountains in Masonia from the Falaba district axis in the far north of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Bangura, Team Lead for a group of Rangers, manning the reserved forest and his colleagues are working under what they describe as “exceptional conditions” as the fight to conserve the mountain ensues.

By Alpha Abu

Popular businessman and football promoter Babadi Kamara has decided to throw his hat into the ring for the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) Presidency, sparking intense interest over an Election that is two years away.

It couldn’t have ignited such hype, had it been left to the incumbent and any other football stakeholder in the country, therefore the excitement now being generated is quite understandable.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

By Oumar Farouk Sesay
More than sixty years after gaining independence from Britain, perhaps Sierra Leone stands alone in West Africa as the sole country still being led by the same political parties established before its liberation – the All People’s Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP).

By Abubakarr Bah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,

By Ishmail Pamsm-Conteh, PhD (Law)

There is a legal principle that the law constrains even the highest political official, as a bedrock of democracy. According to David Dunlap, a retired US Judge, in authoritarian governments the persons in charge not only make the laws, they are the laws. But not so in constitutional democracies.

By Mabinty M. Kmara

Mariatu 13, (not her real name), is a Sierra Leonean who lived with foster parents in Freetown and hoped for a better life through education. She was living together with two biological children of her caregivers, a boy and a girl of the same age.

Mariatu’s Aunt would later secure enrolment into a nursing course in the provinces where she temporarily relocated leaving the girl and the other kids in the care of the husband. She would pay weekend visits depending on the situation with her coursework.