By Mohamed Gibril Sesay Literature is often seen as referring to the written-word, and sometimes, further tightened to mean the scripted-word of the creative type, and again tweaked to be perceived as the printed-word of the fictional creative type –novels, short stories, poetry, drama. Our discussion of Sierra Leonean Literature dances to these understandings, […]
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah There has been a lot of outrage in Sierra Leone since the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) handcuffed and frog-marched a group of school teachers allegedly arrested for “examination malpractice” in Freetown. The dramatic event is a sequel to the country’s poor performance in the recently concluded West African senior secondary
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Human rights groups have asked Nigerian authorities to immediately release publisher Agba Jalingo and halt their harassment of journalists reporting on alleged corruption and other issues of public interest. The latest demands follow the arrest on August 22 in Lagos of Agba Jalingo, the publisher of the online news outlet Cross River Watch. Jalingo’s lawyer Attah Ochinke, and
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The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has today called on Cameroonian authorities to immediately release, without charge, pidgin news anchor Samuel Wazizi. Police arrested Wazizi eleven days ago and handed him over to the military, which has since held him without access to his lawyer or family in Buea, the capital of the country’s English-speaking
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Authorities in Senegal should immediately release and drop all charges against journalist Adama Gaye, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Gaye, an independent journalist and commentator who has contributed to Senegalese and international news agencies including Kapital Afrik, Jeune Afrique, France24, TV5Monde, and Al-Jazeera, was arrested on July 29 at his home in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, by the police’s
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By Angela Quintal At Gambia’s Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Commission (TRRC) on July 22, army officer Lieutenant Malick Jatta named former President Yahya Jammeh as the mastermind behind the murder of prominent editor Deyda Hydara on December 16 , 2004. He said Jammeh had given the direct order to assassinate Hydara, an outspoken critic who was the managing editor and co-owner of independent
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Keith Biddle recalls his time as Sierra Leone’s first post-war police boss
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There are subtle ways to create problems for the press. For instance, the government may decide to hit the revenue of the papers, because the government is a very big advertiser. That will be a subtle way to arm twist you, to get you to dance to their tune. You always see the arrests, but there are also subtle attempts to also cow the media.
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In a suprising turn of events, President Trump released a presidential memorandum last week that extends the Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) status for around 4,000 Liberian refugees who feared they would be deported at the end of the month. Although not a solution, the one-year extension will provide much needed relief for the community. This
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Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) may be coming to an end for thousands of Liberian Americans at the end of this month.
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