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Sierra Leone political parties in a battle of words in the Associated Press

Culled from the Switsalone website :  A war of words has ignited another round of accusations and threats from Sierra Leone’s leading political parties. This new bout began when opposition leader Maada Bio accused the ruling APC party of inciting violence. The most serious of his accusations is that the APC is using  “ex-combatants to [...]

The ruling All People’s Congress ( APC ) will defeat the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party ( SLPP ) in the Presidential Elections in November, according to provisional figures from the biometrics registration just released. With the numbers still coming in and the total tally yet to be numerated, strongholds of the APC have already [...]

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Conference in Freetown recommends focusing on the long-term benefits of health, education and infrastructure rather than on increasing foreign investment in mining Fifty years ago when Sierra Leone gained independence after 150 years of colonial rule, with it came a feeling of optimism that – along with a newfound control of its governance – the [...]

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By Jarrah Kawusu-Konte :Since Independence in 1961, the Grand Old Party (GOP), the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), has prided itself as being the most decent and democratic among all other parties combined. The SLPP was founded in 1951 and within 6 years spearheaded a coalition of parties to form a government in 1957. In [...]

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As the Presidential , Legislative and Council Elections draw near, Sierra Leoneans have become busier than normal with their pens. Once on a while, we will reproduce some of their thrilling articles, depending on their importance to the current political dispensation in the country . The article below was written by one of Sierra Leone’s [...]

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If there was any doubt that the former Executive Representative of the United Nations Secretary General , Mr. Michael Von Schulenberg  likely compromised his neutrality in the Sierra Leone political landscape ,  the truth has come out, albeit too late , after the end of the ERSG’s tenure as head of the United Nation’s Peacekeeping Mission [...]

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So Lans Gberie advised Schulenburg on APC-SLPP violence but how is he advising U.N. Security Council? By Sylvia O. Blyden Feb 9, 2012, 18:20         Lans Gberie’s U.N. Contract I first met Lans Gberie in 1994 when his former boss Kingsley Lington sent him to cover a press conference I called up [...]

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At dusk of Wednesday, 8thFebruary, 2012,  in the court barrie of Lokomassama, Port Loko District, in the Northern Province of Sierra Leone, dozens of former SLPP leaders and partisans of the chiefdom publicly took off their green  SLPP T-shirts (some, with  campaign T-shirts of the 2007 SLPP presidential candidate, Solomon Berewa) and put on red [...]

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The Deputy Minister of Information & Communications, Sheka Tarawalie, who doubles as Co-Government Spokesman, has said that the press release issued by the flag-bearer of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP), Julius Maada Bio, “is a knee-jerk reaction to the realities on the ground, which definitely do not favour his party. He has woken up [...]

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The attention of Government has been drawn to a very mischievous press release circulated by the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) with a deliberate attempt to misinform members of the public and at the same time to drive fear in the minds of the citizenry at a time when President Ernest Bai Koroma is [...]

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