The News Review:
- Sierra Leone: Don’t Disappoint Voters, Fashola Tasks Koroma
- Probation time for S Leone’s new leaders
- Life: football, pacifica high school, sierra leone, garden grove,…
- Sierra Leone in World Cup draw
Sierra Leone: Don’t Disappoint Voters, Fashola Tasks Koroma
AllAfrica.com – Nov 18, 2007
Fashola who spoke in Freetown, the Sierra Leonean capital at the inauguration of President Koroma declared that it was only through good governance that democracy could be entrenched in Sierra Leone. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); The Governor expressed conviction that the new President of Sierra Leone has a clear vision of what he intends to do and achieve for the people, adding that brotherly support and advise would always come from the state as long as such actions were in the best interest of the people. Fashola reiterated that the peaceful transition, which Sierra Leone just witnessed was an indicator that the West African subregion and African continent has come of age in terms of popular representative rule. Said he: "we believe that a threat to peace anywhere in the world, particularly in Africa is a threat to peace everywhere and to everyone.
Probation time for S Leone’s new leaders
BBC News – Nov 18, 2007
But all the expectation will come to nothing if President Ernest Bai Koroma fails to address the rampant corruption and mismanagement. President Koroma told me his policy on corruption was clear. “I have sent out clear warnings to everybody, including members of my government, and I believe that in the next 36 months Sierra Leoneans will start seeing the turnaround. Gates go up In the neighbourhood of Godrich, on the outskirts of Freetown, teeming building sites are emerging from the swamps and mountainsides…
He spoke of changing “attitudes” – in other words the mentality and culture of corruption that are so deeply ingrained in Sierra Leonean society. It is a massive job. Corruption in Sierra Leone extends all the way from top officials taking kickbacks on government contracts to teachers telling children they have to pay if they want to go to class. Rules and regulations may change. President Koroma told me, for example, that he would be making the anti-corruption commission completely independent of government. But changing a whole culture is a challenge of a far greater order. Everything may depend on the lead given by President Koroma and his team.
Life: football, pacifica high school, sierra leone, garden grove,…
OCRegister – Nov 18, 2007
Each has a reason for being here, but only one has his reason for being here. ‘The civil war,’ Sarh Hemmor says, and it’s clear this isn’t just another high school athlete. This senior at Pacifica High is from Sierra Leone, the republic in West Africa famous for its precious diamonds and internal strife. After a recent practice, Hemmor stood with a couple of teammates, discussing his homeland, matter-of-factly talking about dismemberment, about dodging death by moving from village to village based on radio reports of the whereabouts of the rebels.
Sierra Leone in World Cup draw
Kenya Broadcasting Corporation – Nov 18, 2007
The Leone Stars claimed victory with a 1-0 aggregate score. The result means Sierra Leone will join Djibouti, Madagascar and 45 other African nations in the hat for the qualifying draw for Africa's first ever World Cup. That takes place in Durban on 25 November 2007. Djibouti qualified for the main draw by beating Somalia 1-0 in the preliminary qualifier on Friday.