Feature

By Ibrahim Tommy

While Sierra Leone may have outstanding credentials in terms of its contributions to promoting international criminal justice, recent events at home do not bode well for efforts at combating impunity and fostering justice for victims of politically-motivated crimes, in particular. Sierra Leone cannot afford to lose the fight against impunity, but even the most optimistic person about the country’s chances of pulling it off can’t help but keep their optimism in check.

Take a moment to think about this:

By Lansana Gberie

By Christian Lawrence

The Citizens Budget launched at the Miatta Conference Hall on Thursday 10^th May 2012 was just a miniature of the Comprehensive 2012 national budget. I must reckon that as most of us reading this piece are Sierra Leonean nationals, we certainly must have our support/loyalties for different political parties. I too have mine as well, but do not and hopefully will never show up in doing the kind of work that I do in ActionAid International Sierra Leone. So the analysis I did below is as far as possible devoid of bias.

Overall Crime and Safety

2/16/2012

In our last edition, Politico ran two contrasting articles on Sierra Leone’s decision to deploy troops in Somalia after the Islamist group, Al-Shabab warned of unspecified consequences should the country send troops to meddle in their conflict.  Below are synopsis of the two arguments and a press release issues by State House apparently reacting to our stories. We will start with Tanu Jalloh’s piece in favour of RSLAF’s deployment in Somalia.

By Lansana Gberie

By Adrian Fischer