ALUSINE SESAY, a 28 year old young man shot in the head by the Sierra Leone security forces during the Makeni demonstrations has died at the Connaught Hospital in Freetown. […]
The massacre by the Sierra Leone security forces of 5 youths during the Makeni demonstration has prompted three civil society organizations in the country to not only condemn the killings […]
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Sierra Leone on Wednesday 8 July 2020, donated five (5) motorbikes to the Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE) as […]
Black Lives Matter: But Not in My Backyard The loss of lives in Makeni over the weekend is not only sad but equally avoidable. With the social and political […]
Lungi People Stand in Solidarity with Makeni and Deeply Mourn with for their Irreparable Loss As we mourn the terrible, excruciating, barbaric, and unfortunate death of our brothers and […]
The first Female Member of Parliament from Kono District, Honorable Rebecca Yei Kamara, who represents the Coalition For Change (C4C ) in Parliament , was seriously injured today in a […]
By Yankuba Kai-Samba Police in Sierra Leone are seemingly acting under pressure. Too many lethal force are being used and too many young lives are lost in the last two […]
Charles Curtis Thomas is in Makeni, Sierra Leone. THE PADEMBA ROAD PRISON MASSACRE AND THE MAKENI MASSACRE, DID PRESIDENT MAADA BIO, AS COMMANDER IN CHIEF, GIVE THE GO AHEAD FOR LIVE […]
The blood of the innocent flowed and spilled the streets once more in Sierra Leone last Friday June 18, this time in Makeni , when police and army under the […]
By Mohamed Sankoh (One Drop) In Part Two of Chapter One of Thomas Hughes’ novel, “Tom Brown’s Schooldays”, is an epigraph whose originality can be traced to the American Romantic […]
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