The BBC World Service is renowned for their educative and fascinating programmes, which is why childhood appetite for that broadcaster keeps growing by the generation. Not too long ago one of those programmes was “Useful Idiots”.
Joe Hindovei Pemagbi
Eleven years after the official declaration of the end of Sierra Leone’s civil war, Charles Ghankay Taylor was sentenced last month to 50 years imprisonment by the Special Court for Sierra Leone sitting in The Hague.
By Ian Hughes
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“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.” Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist, essayist and dramatist.
By Mac Jibba
Perhaps one of the simplest but most difficult questions to answer is to advance reasons for the slow pace in development of Sierra Leone as a single nation in the sub-region. Many Sierra Leoneans believe that the problems of the country are entirely external and that those external factors have plunged the country to occupy the bottom segment of the Human Development Index (HDI).
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
