Sierra Leone

Twelve rainy seasons have passed since youths and students all over the major cities in Sierra Leone came out to protest against one of the most brutal military regimes ever seen in Africa. Led by university students, youths and ordinary workers took to the streets on 18 August 2007.

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has announced that it would on July 13, 2009 march through the streets of Freetown, as part of its long-sustained pressure to get the country’s Supreme Court to give a ruling on the case it filed in February 2008 challenging the constitutionality

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) on June 15, 2009 imposed a news blackout on the country’s judiciary, as part of its sustained campaign to get the Supreme Court to expunge the obnoxious Public Order Act of the 1960 from the laws of Sierra Leone.

On Friday 13 March 2009, the newly-painted clock tower at Eastern Police, in central Freetown, was unveiled by the city mayor and officials of the All People’s Congress (APC), the party which has held national power since 2007.

Water is a necessary resource for the survival of living organism, especially humankind. In parts of Africa, mainly in Sierra Leone today, water is perennially scarce. Its insatiable demand has outstripped a stagnated or disrupted supply.