1. Introduction It is on record that river Nile is one of the world’s longest transboundary rivers flowing a distance of more than 6,700 kilometres from its farthest source at the headwaters of the Kagera Basin in Rwanda and Burundi to the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt. Its catchments basin covers approximately 10% of the African [...]
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SWOT analysis and challenge of Nile Basin Initiative; an Integrated Water Resource Management perspective
Posted by admin on August 21st, 2011
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A Balanced Strategy: Reprogramming NGOs and Enhancing Their Relevance as Development Partners in Sierra Leone
Posted by admin on August 20th, 2011
What should be the defining principle of the Koroma administration National Development Strategy is balance. President Koroma cannot expect to eliminate national development challenges through a unilateral political agenda, to do everything and coordinate everything based on his All People’s Congress (APC) party ideology. His APC party with its “corporate agenda” for Sierra Leone rolled [...]
Local Councils: A pivotal but disappointing role in Sierra Leone?s socio-political and economic development debate
Posted by admin on August 19th, 2011
Local government structure in Sierra Leone essentially consists of a system of 19 elected councils, broken down into 5 city councils (Freetown, Bo, Kenema, Koidu-New Sembehun and Makeni); the municipality of Bonthe and 13 district councils consisting of the 12 districts (Pujehun, Bo, Moyamba, Bonthe, Kenema, Kailahun, Kono, Tonkolili, Bombali, Port Loko, Kambia, Koinadugu) and [...]
