The African Development Bank on Thursday in Tunis approved two grants and a loan amounting to USD 34.08 million to finance the rehabilitation of the Masiaka-Sefadu road project in the northeast of Sierra Leone, according to a release from the Bank. The road to the country’s diamond-rich Kono district has been in a decrepit state for years and despite repeated promises by successive governments, it... 

A two-day conference of land owners which closed yesterday in Freetown has challenged transparency in land acquisition and use in Sierra Leone, calling for effective environmental management of land, water and vegetation in lease areas to prevent destruction of resources. In a nine-point communique, delegates from eight districts and twenty chiefdoms either affected or about to be affected by large... 

By Alpha Abu People living in the extreme east end of the capital, Freetown are becoming increasingly alarmed at the spate of machete attacks on residents by robbers. These attacks are concentrated in the highly populated Wellington community, with the police virtually incapable of stopping them. Victims in most of the cases, described the robbers as young men wearing only boxers with no clothes, and... 

By James Tamba Lebbie A friend visiting Sierra Leone from Ohio, USA amidst the “timbergate” scandal in November last year told me if Sierra Leone was a decent and civilized democracy, Vice President Samuel Sam Sumana’s political obituary would have been written and thrashed in the litter bin.  And even though I reminded my friend that this is Sierra Leone where legality and decency among other... 

“When the facts change, I change my opinion. What do you do Sir?” asks John Maynard Keynes. The twentieth century British economist had many revolutionary ideas, almost all were controversial, yet they profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics. Thus in the above quote he was concerned that markets are dynamic and uncertain, which is to say we all have the ability to be...