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Kandeh K. Yumkella

CKC 60th Anniversary, Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella Address to the Alumni

By Rev. David Kanu

Every year, since the days of the late President Joseph Saidu Momoh, the Sierra Leone Government has consistently been financially helping Muslims to perform their sacred pilgrimage (Hajj) to Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. During the administration of President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah some Arab States, especially Libya, provided air tickets and other financial assistance to help more of our Sierra Leonean Muslim brothers and sisters perform the hajj.

By Francis Ben Kaifala Esq

By Saidu Kaye Sesay, London

By Milton Margai

In a society where the police are compromised and are woefully failing in the battle against crime and the maintenance of law and order, mob justice has the potential to thrive. The photos below are those of young people killed recently in Sierra Leone in unlawful circumstances. One is an alleged thief killed by a mob. The other is the corpse of a bright secondary school boy gunned down in cold blood during a ‘riot’.

By Aiah P. Thomas

By Francis Ben Kaifala, Esq

For most emerging economies, and developing countries, one of the common denominators of the problems they face is the high rate of illiteracy. Sierra Leone being one of those countries, it will be almost a cliché to repeat that it has one of the highest illiteracy rates in the world – believed to be in excess of 70% on most indices except the UNDP index which sets adult literacy rate for both sexes at 42.1% and conversely sets illiteracy rate at 57.9%.