Sierra Leone News

 It may sound a little cruel, but I would really like to see the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) fighting for its very survival. That’s the time you get the best out of the greats and the upstarts.

“We would be doing what we know best” was an answer when Isaac Massaquoi was once asked as to why he wanted to team up with another journalist, David Tam-Baryoh, to put resources together to secure and operate one of the biggest commercial radio stations in Sierra Leone. After several months, if not a whole year, the radio (FM 91.3) is now on air. It is heard in panguma and pendembu in the east, Moyamba and Bonthe in the far south and Karina, Kambia and Bimkolo in the north of the country; covering altogether a two-third airwaves portion of Sierra Leone.

This is the Sierra Leone Media report by The BBS World Service Trust.  Please Click here to view or download and read the complete report. The document is in PDF format and you may need Adobe Acrobat which you can download from http://www.adobe.com/acrobat

  This work by Mr. David T. Baryoh is an attempt to solve the puzzle of Sierra Leone’s poverty. How can this small West African country; with abundant rainfall and arable land, a network of rivers and with seas teeming with fish….a land blessed with abundant mineral resources with a young population, largely free from the ravages of HIV/AIDS (incidence is still below 5%), be almost last on the U.N. Human Development Index?