Trying Charles Taylor
"There are compelling reasons for Taylor to be tried in Sierra Leone, in the presence of the numerous victims of the conflict and alongside the other (...)
- The Patriotic Vanguard, Sierra Leone News Portal
"There are compelling reasons for Taylor to be tried in Sierra Leone, in the presence of the numerous victims of the conflict and alongside the other (...)
On Wednesday, Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos(photo) declared that his country would go to the polls before the end of 2008. Elections, not held (...)
Last week the world remembered the 12th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide. Gerald Caplan argues that understanding about the real causes of the genocide (...)
"The imperialist West went about subjecting the rest of the world to its memory through a vast naming system. It planted its memory on our landscape by (...)
"One big factor in the rise of women’s political power in Africa is affirmative action. Governments have set concrete targets for women’s participation in (...)
Across Europe, African football players face weekly abuse from fans chanting racial insults. In Russia, racial attitudes have extended beyond the football (...)
China’s increased presence in Africa is part of a wider effort to ‘create a paradigm of globalisation that favours China’ [1]. In the past China’s African presenc
This week, we publish a very important speech recently delivered in Freetown by Thomas Hull(photo), the US ambassador to Sierra Leone. We believe the (...)
We hereby devote this space this week to one of Africa’s foremost thinkers, the great Chinweizu of Nigeria. This lecture, vintage Chinweizu, is (...)
The editor is taking a break from his marathon article on the Sierra Leone justice system to give space to Denmark correspondent Stephen Lawrence. Lawrence (...)
Sierra Leone’s Attorney General and minister of Justice Mr. Frederick Carew (photo) has been at the centre of many high profile cases from the controversial (...)
In this commentary, Vanguard editor Gibril Koroma looks at three major gladiators in Sierra Leone’s current political fights, three musketeers in the (...)
