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A Plan to Alleviate Poverty in Sierra Leone
(Sunday, December 09, 2007 - SLL News)
Goal: To immediately reduce the cost of living in Sierra Leone (SL), and thereby reduce poverty among millions of Sierra Leoneans, by arresting and reversing the 30-year long catastrophic decline in t...
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APC leader boycotts peace rally
(Thursday, September 06, 2007 - The Patriotic Vanguard)
The APC leader, Ernest Bai Koroma(photo), this morning(Thursday September 6) boycotted a joint political peace rally with the leader and presidential candidate of the SLPP, Solomon Berewa, that should...
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APC LEADER OPTS OUT OF PEACE MARCH
(Thursday, September 06, 2007 - Cocorioco)
The opposition All People's Congress ( APC) today opted out of the Peace March scheduled for this morning because of an alleged plot to assassinate the party leader, Mr. Ernest Koroma. The party said ...
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APC Wins Presidential Elections
(Monday, September 17, 2007 - Sierra Leone Live)
At our last briefing, we informed the media and the public that the National Electoral Commission (NEC) would undertake a series of investigations and recounts in order to finalize the results of the ...
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British Government impartial in Sierra Leone’s elections
(Thursday, September 06, 2007 - The Patriotic Vanguard)
The British Government is pleased to partner Sierra Leone during her 2007 elections. British support includes £4m towards the direct cost of the election, £1.8m for voter education and access to elect...
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Diasporans, Sierra Leoneans and the renegade
(Monday, November 05, 2007 - Sierra Leone Live)
In November 2006, Transparency International ranked our country the 16th most corrupt in the world. Under the watch of the past Sierra Leone People's Party ( SLPP ) administration, and their unprinc...
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Different Kind of Battle for Sierra Leone
(Thursday, December 20, 2007 - IPS)
Sierra Leone’s economy has, over the years, relied heavily on the mining sector in general and diamonds in particular. However, between 1991 and 2000 the country was comprehensively destroyed in a bru...
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Dr. John Karefa-Smart explains his support for the APC-PMDC coalition
(Friday, September 21, 2007 - SLL)
Some of you may be wondering why I have supported the APC led coalition that resulted in the defeat of the SLPP presidential candidate. You may be asking if I have forgotten that it was the APC presid...
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Election Officials Concerned about Voter Apathy in Sierra Leone Presidential Runoff
(Friday, September 07, 2007 - VOA News)
Sierra Leone electoral officials say there is concern that voters will not turn out in large number for Saturday's presidential runoff like they did in the first round, which saw a voter participation...
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EXPOSED! Conspiracy To Destroy Chief Electoral Commissioner in Sierra Leone
(Thursday, September 06, 2007 - Standard Times Press)
For weeks prior to the August 11 Presidential and Parliamentary elections in Sierra Leone, the public and a cross section of the independent media have been raising eye brows at the composition of per...
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Flash back to 2002: PRESIDENT KABBAH'S ABUSE OF THE APPOINTMENT POWER - Part 1
(Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - SLL News)
The Law Courts Building, hitherto an eyesore in the confluence of the thoroughfare of the business district, and the seat of government in Freetown, has been renovated with luminous and garish yellow ...
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Flash back to 2006: Berewa: You can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time
(Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - SLL News)
I was driving on the highway on Saturday July 1, 2006, when I got a phone call from a friend asking me if I had seen the reply sent by Solomon Ekuma Berewa to the petition sent to the Political Partie...
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Flash back to 2006: PMDC takes Berewa to PPRC
(Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - SLL News)
INTERIM Secretary General of the Peoples Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) ANSU LANSANA past Friday sent a letter of petition to the Chairman of Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) on...
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Flash back to 2006: The Betrayal of Sierra Leone by its Pseudo-Intellectuals
(Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - SLL News)
Like most S/Leoneans, John Mannah, who tells us that he is writing a Ph.D. dissertation in macroeconomics and finance at the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, New York, would be expected to...
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FORGIVENESS DOES NOT HAPPEN IN A VACUUM
(Tuesday, October 02, 2007 - SLL News)
How you like my Presidents Presidential looks? Would you rather have a young looking 53 year old at the helm of the ship of state, or an old feeble, corrupt, chain smoking, "KAKTOE of state which is ...
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FRIENDS, VOTERS, COUNTRYMEN: SLPP BROUGHT NEITHER PEACE NOR DEMOCRACY
(Tuesday, September 18, 2007 - Sierra Leone Live News)
When the war was declared over in 2001 and a nation-wide event was organized by All Works Of Life (AWOL; I have problems with them not using ‘Walks’) to give awards to those who had played significant...
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Good Night Berewa, Good Morning President Koroma - Part 1
(Monday, September 17, 2007 - SLL)
I, together with many other well-meaning Sierra Leoneans, warned Berewa about the danger of relying on the chants and praises of soothsaying anarchists masquerading as supporters. And now, the prelimi...
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Good Night Berewa, Good Morning President Koroma - Part 2
(Monday, September 17, 2007 - Sierra Leone Live)
The zenith of Solomon Berewa’s power was not when he was made Vice President, neither when he was Attorney General. In-between those two positions, Berewa was made leader of a presidential task force ...
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Good Night Berewa, Good Morning President Koroma - Part 3
(Friday, September 21, 2007 - Sierra Leone Live)
You don’t need to be a psychologist or psychiatrist to know that Solomon Ekuma Berewa was not on his own - rather, was not himself - when he attended the swearing-in ceremony of Ernest Bai Koroma as t...
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Good Night Dr. Sylvia Blyden Part 2
(Thursday, September 13, 2007 - Sierra Leone Live News)
It is another birthday, another year gone and Dr.Sylvia Blyden has little cause to celebrate this year; at least not at the magnitude of the other birthdays the past four years since she returned to S...
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Good Night, Dr Sylvia Blyden, Part 1
(Thursday, September 13, 2007 - Sierra Leone Live News)
Dr Sylvia Blyden and her Awareness Times are playing a game that is well known in Sierra Leone journalism: sycophancy-based propaganda for the benefit of Mr. or Mrs. Proprietor. The question will imme...
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Government probes unrest in diamond-mining area
(Thursday, December 20, 2007 - IRIN News)
The Sierra Leone government has called for an inquiry into unrest over diamond-mining operations in the east of the country after residents were killed in protests last week.
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LET’S END THE POLITICS OF BEGGING FOR MERCY
(Saturday, October 06, 2007 - SLL News)
What emerged in the last ten years, however, has been a pathetic and painful picture of socio-economic decline, corruption and generally poor governance. The challenge of any incoming government in 20...
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NDA JOINS APC AND PMDC TO FIGHT SLPP IN THE RUNOFFS
(Thursday, August 23, 2007 - Cocorioco)
The All People's Congress (APC) Presidential heavyweight, Hon. Ernest Bai Koroma, on Thursday told a mammoth crowd of People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) and the National Democratic Alli...
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Portrait of a State Run Amok.......The Ahmad Tejan Kabbah/Solomon Berewa Era In Sierra Leone
(Friday, October 19, 2007 - Sierra Leone Live)
The APC is inheriting a largely dysfunctional state, disjointed and disconnected like hacked limbs. What held the state together during the tenure of the SLPP were personal connections to the presiden...
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