By Saa Matthias BENDU & Habib T Kamara 

Wide ranges of definition have been given for Political tolerance. For this piece we are limiting ourselves to two.

Some time in June 2012 some local newspapers in Sierra Leone published a story about explicit still and video pictures starring two serving police officers on United Nations peacekeeping duties in Darfur, Sudan. Some published nude pictures especially of the woman. The two officers, the woman in her 50s and the man younger, were having sex and decided to take pictures and film their fun moments.

Plan Sierra Leone, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation and other partners on Tuesday officially launched the Universal Birth Registration (UBR) project on the theme: “Every Child Has the Right to a Name and Nationality” at the Bintumani Hotel, Aberdeen, Freetown.

By Saa Matthias BENDU 

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”.

By Walter Lippmann (1939)

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.