Editor's Note: Freetown lawyer and politician Desmond Luke passed away over the weekend. Here is a profile of him we published in January 2011. By Lans Gberie, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Desmond Edgar Fashole Luke, former politician and Chief Justice,...

Commentary By Abdulai Braima GOVERNANCE is not about knee-jerk reaction to every flippant allegation. Democratic Governance is a slow but steady PROCESS. Those who think they can use frivolous allegations to distract the PROCESS and becloud the t...

Roadmap for a Renewed U.S.-Canada Partnership February 23, 2021 Ottawa, Ontario “It is in the shared interest of the United States and Canada to revitalize and expand our historic alliance and steadfast friendship to overcome the daunting challe...

David Adetayo Olusoga OBE (born January 1970 is a British historian, writer, broadcaster, presenter and film-maker. He is Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester. He has presented historical documentaries on the BBC and contribut...

By Francis Ben Kaifala, ACC Commissioner, Sierra Leone I am pleased to be named by the Secretary of State of the United States of America an inaugural "INTERNATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION CHAMPION" Honouree, in recognition of my “outstanding commitment...

Collecting sensitive information like bank statements and dumping them in the public domain is not enough in journalism but it is just what it is : Dumping. I think it is also playing Julian Assange or Edward Snowden. Even Assange and Snowden looke...

The family of Boston CEO Frederica Williams have launched a scholarship fund in memory of the late Mrs. Matilda Effehsochee Williams (photo) at the Mother's Union School in Freetown to support 12 students and three teachers at the school on Tower Hi...

Canada imposes sanctions on Myanmar military officials in response to coup d'état February 18, 2021 - Ottawa, Ontario - Global Affairs Canada The Honourable Marc Garneau, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today (February 18) announced that in response ...

By Gibril Koroma, Editor and Publisher, Toronto, Canada The impasse between the Sierra Leone Mining company which is interested in the iron ore at the Marampa mines in Lunsar, north of Sierra Leone, and the Sierra Leone government has dragged on fo...

By PV Staff Writers One of the most loved and perhaps most effective American ambassadors that have ever served in Sierra Leone, Ambassador Maria Brewer, is leaving the country at the end of her tour of duty. This is the normal thing to do in the ...