SUNY BOY (Part 2): Depicting the everyday life of the everyday Sierra Leonean   Read More »

An unspecified number of workers at the mobile telecommunications company, AFRICELL, have written a strongly-worded letter to their management demanding improved pay and conditions of service, issuing a 10-point demand. Among the serious allegations levelled against their employers, the aggrieved workers accuse the company of flouting government provisions with impunity alleging that some government... 

By Abubakarr Jalloh in Dakar There has been an angry reaction to the manner and scope of celebrations marking Sierra Leone’s 51st independence anniversary in Dakar on 27 April. Some Sierra Leoneans living in the Senegalese capital, who had clamoured for the opening of the embassy there, have even suggested that it be closed. They accused the ambassador, Khadi Bassir, of running the mission like “a... 

A 30-member United Nations Security Council delegation arrives in Freetown this morning for a 1-day official working visit. The delegation will leave tonight. However, according to the US embassy in Freetown, the US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Susan Rice, will not be with the team and will leave Abidjan for New York. The embassy information officer, Mark Carr, would not give any... 

A public lecture on the topic: “From the Classroom to Entrepreneurial Through the Application of Industry Property Systems” has been delivered by Dr. Isaac Palmer at the Mary Kinglsey Auditorium at Fourah Bay College.   Dr Isaac Palmer Dr. Palmer started by presenting the country’s GDP curve since Independence adding that the balance of trade had been calculated from the export of traditional... 

The one-day visit today to Sierra Leone by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC)may not be unprecedented but is certainly a watershed. Apart from its obvious significance that the most important organ of the world body is visiting our country, it is further testament to the continued commitment of the UN to Sierra Leone. The UN spent billions of US dollars on what was its largest peacekeeping... 

Anti-Corruption Commission, ACCnorthern region has held a routine “customised meeting” with staff of Plan-SL in the region at their 63 Magburaka Road office in Makeni. Programme Coordinator Plan, Abdulai Jalloh who chaired the meeting, expressed delight and maintained that they were willing at all times to receive ACC and therefore pledged their support to eradicating corruption. He noted that... 

Anti-Corruption Commission chief in Makeni has called on the Inter Religious Council gathering to include anti-corruption messages in their sermons when he recently addressed torchbearers at the Wesleyan Regional Headquarters in Makeni. Patrick Sandi noted that it was very important for them to take a strong position and stance in the fight against corruption by preaching against it to their congregations. He... 

NEC ADDITONAL REGISTRATION – WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. The best thing for the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to do is to come out with a proper statement on the reports we are getting that 27,000 more people are to be registered or re-registered. All we know is that NEC has declared the registration business over; NEC has announced the provisional figures; NEC has facilitated the movement of... 

By Isaac Massaquoi The people of Freetown are still trying to understand how is it that a group of young people armed with machetes and other offensive weapons could march to densely populated communities like Saint John and Brookfields, randomly attack, wound and rob innocent people of their monies and mobile phones and get away with it. Please don’t tell me police arrested and charged a few of... 

By Tanu Jalloh Across the world the UN population fund, UNFPA, and a host of other groups, some of them inspired by the plethora of conventions, conferences and declarations on women in particular and gender matters generally, are up and running. The situation in Sierra Leone is no different. However, this piece has been cut out to represent a general condition of women in the rural economy with particular...