A talk delivered by Umaru Fofana at the 9th World Conference of Science Journalists, Seoul, South Korea, 10 June 2015
Special Report: How SFCG’s protecting landowners’ rights
By Joseph Lamin Kamara
The country office of the international nonprofit organization Search For Common Ground (SFCG) is protecting the rights of landowners in three districts in Sierra Leone through a project sponsored by the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA).
The effect of a wrecked public transportation system
By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
Amidst the long queue of weary-looking passengers at Regent Road in central Freetown, sweating profusely is Ibrahim Kargbo. They are eagerly waiting for the next available Poda Poda (commercial transport vehicle).
In the meantime, they are discussing the failures or mistakes or inactions that allow commercial transport drivers exploit commuters, forcing thousands of Sierra Leoneans to hassle daily for transport, with impunity.
The effect of a wrecked public transportation system
By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
Amidst the long queue of weary-looking passengers at Regent Road in central Freetown, sweating profusely is Ibrahim Kargbo. They are eagerly waiting for the next available Poda Poda (commercial transport vehicle).
In the meantime, they are discussing the failures or mistakes or inactions that allow commercial transport drivers exploit commuters, forcing thousands of Sierra Leoneans to hassle daily for transport, with impunity.
Let’s chase our councilors
By Joseph Lamin Kamara
I mean all 49 of them, from Orogoo Bridge/Allen Town, running by the coast of Freetown and parts of Mount Aureol to Portor Levuma at Goderich, in the Freetown municipality.
They should be convening regular committee meetings in which we interact, dialogue, telling them the problems our communities have. They should take those concerns to the Freetown City Council (FCC) which should provide us the necessary social services.
Freetown: The menace of street begging
By Allieu Sahid Tunkara
Adjacent to the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) complex, looking tired and famished under the burning afternoon sun, Immah Sankoh sits in a wheel chair, amid a row of physically challenged colleagues.
The woman makes a living by begging. She is given a helping hand by her nephew, Santigie Kargbo, who pushes her wheel chair to various locations within the city where she asks for alms. She says she makes between Le 10, 000 and Le 15, 000 a day.
