England’s Covid travel rules and refusal to recognise vaccines administered across huge swaths of the world have sparked outrage and bewilderment across Latin America, Africa and south Asia, with critics denouncing what they called an illogical and discriminatory policy. The Transport Secretary, Grant Shapps, described England’s rules, unveiled last Friday, as “a new simplified system for international travel”. “The purpose …

By George S. Khoryama. The nation waited in anxiety and with a bated breath for the Thursday February 15, 2018 Presidential debate to determine the chaff from the wheat among six out of the sixteen flag bearers that are brisk-jockeying to become President of the Republic of Sierra Leone. In the glare of both national and international audience their charge …

By George S. Khoryama. The spate of violence, tribalism, regionalism and ethnicity did not begin with the March 7, 2018 elections. It became and had remained the trade mark of President Ernest Bai Koroma’s policy of governance from 2007 when he took State House. In the course of the 2007 presidential and general elections, this is what President Koroma had …

By George S Khoryama. The historical fate in the governance of the Republic of Sierra Leone between the now beleaguered All People’s Congress (APC) party and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has once again come into play. The former, for the thirty five collective years including the just ended term of office of President Ernest Bai Koroma in power …