By Bampia James Bundu
Last month, over a hundred youths in Kanekay, a community in the east of Freetown, took a vow to rise up against prostitution and drug abuse - two phenomena that threaten a whole generation of Sierra Leone`s youths.
A ‘man of great courage’
By Kemo Cham
Last Friday about 15 people gathered at the small conference hall of the All Works of Life (AWOL) on Pa Demba Road in Freetown; the occasion was to say a “little” ‘Thank You’ to a young British volunteer social worker heading back home. Tom Stephenson arrived in Freetown early February as part of a one-man mission to help in the fight against the Ebola epidemic.
Interview: Sierra Leone ruling party defends VP expulsion
On 6 March the ruling All People’s Congress party took an unprecedented step and expelled from its ranks the then Vice President, Samuel Sam-Sumana. On 9 March, Politico’s Umaru Fofana met the Secretary General of the party, Alhaji Usman Yansanneh at his house for the following interview:
Politico: Why did you expel VP Sam-Sumana?
The evil in sacking vice president Sam-Sumana
By Joseph Lamin Kamara
Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has been sacked. That`s no news. My purpose here is not aimed at informing you about that controversial decision by President Ernest Koroma. Rather, it is to bring out the unconstitutionality in the act and the aberrancies in the immediate events that preceded it.
Youth and drugs in Sierra Leone
By Mustapha Kamara Jnr.
He was my friend, a true Fourahbite (someone who attended Forah Bay College), a Librite, a socialite and an excellent student of the History and Politics Department of the college. He was also an agile student politician on Campus and speaks eloquently and was always at the forefront challenging issues that had to do with the welfare of students on Campus.
