Feature

By Max Seeley, Suphian Bangura, and Joshua Yarjah

The night the skyline over Susan's Bay blazed orange, when fire engulfed its zinc structures and rendered more than a 1,000 of 7,000 inhabitants homeless, that night also ate into the reservoirs of Freetown’s disaster resilience. Just how much — how significant an impact it has left and what that means for the capital’s constrained resources — is a question now fazing disaster managers and aid agencies.

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By Sam Kargbo

There are a good few stories about human beings that have philosophical and aesthetical appeal. Like every aspect of the universe, the earth and human beings have experienced tremendous evolutionary progress. Indeed, the worship of God should be more if – before creating the universe or cosmic world well over 15 billion years ago – He had anticipated that the world would be this constituted and assume its present character and properties.

By Sam Kargbo

There are a good few stories about human beings that have philosophical and aesthetical appeal. Like every aspect of the universe, the earth and human beings have experienced tremendous evolutionary progress. Indeed, the worship of God should be more if – before creating the universe or cosmic world well over 15 billion years ago – He had anticipated that the world would be this constituted and assume its present character and properties.

By Sam Kargbo

The world is being hit by the breakdown of law and order in South Africa because of the sentencing of Jacob Zuma to 15 months’ imprisonment for contempt of court. This piece attempts to analyze the situation, and point out what is wrong with the jailing of Zuma at the time he was jailed.

By Sam Kargbo

Writing in the December 2019 edition of the Atlantic, under the title of "How America Ends: A tectonic demographic shift is under way. Can the country hold together?" Yoni Appelbaum, who oversees the magazine's ideas section, opined that democracy depends on the consent of the losers. I agree. I also agree with him that parties and candidates who compete in elections should do so with the understanding that electoral defeats are neither permanent nor intolerable.

By Joseph Bankole Thompson MD, PHD

Sierra Leone recorded 2.72%, 4.55% and 4.79% increase in COVID-19 total infections, deaths and recoveries respectively over the week, from July 11-18, 2021.