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Today, I went out to Godridge and low and behold! the “big guns” were out! I mean the heavy road equipment were out clearing the busy road from Juba all the way to Lumley Police station! I’m sooooooo excited! I mean Lumley will look brilliant once the road gets a new makeover. And if they tackle and widen that bridge to Juba that will be even better!

I can hear the cynics like many who’ve told me how the “government hasn’t got the guts to do it”, “Oh they will loose the elections etc etc”. Nonsense!!!!

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Since 1995, Transparency International has published an annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ordering the countries of the world according to “the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians”. The organization defines corruption as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain”

The higher a country’s score, the less corruption there is. New Zealand ranks No.1 overall with 9.4 points. For Africa, Botswana, ranking at No.37 with 5.6 points, is the least corrupted country (kudos to them) It’s worth of note that there is no African country in Top 36.
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So how do we move about here in Sierra Leone? Bear in mind that the terrain here is mountainous. This is just to enlighten you just in case you’re coming for good and want to buy a car.

I’ll talk about private car first:

The best mode of transport here is a 4×4 simply because of the mountainous terrain and the bad roads. Other cars will do, but they’ll struggle to get to some places. I’ve seen that only non 4×4 that can weather things better here is the Mercedes.
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Have you ever taken a taxi in Sierra Leone? If so then you’ll probably understand this incident that happened to me about two weeks ago, Nov 19th to be precise. We had taken the car to the garage and as usual, it was there for 4 days and it came back much worse than it went in.

Anyway, on the first day that it went, I decided to take a taxi to pick the children from school. This taxi was brought to me that truly looked like it was going to fall apart sooner than later.
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Just to let you know ….here are some of the ways in which my life is much easier here in Sierra Leone.

#1. Better and cheaper childcare - This ONE is one of the main benefits! In England, we had more less no family (no grandma of any sorts) available to help us with the children. And we dared not hire a childminder or such like because of the prevalence of paedophilia. So apart from the few hours a day they spent at school, we were their main stay which meant, we were not able to go out as often as we wanted, in fact rarely. But now, we have family and trusted hired help who can look after the children so we can go out a bit more often.
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I thought I should post this information for the benefit of those coming this December, or visiting at any other time.

Here are some of the places I hang out - list according to my most preferred
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We just visited The Gambia for a holiday break and boy, did we need the time-out! I thought I will share a bit of of our travelling as well as general experiences on either side.

For the benefit of those who are not familiar with Freetown, Sierra Leone, due to the mountainous topography, the main airport is located NOT in Freetown but at another town called Lungi. To get to Lungi, the one needs to cross the ocean which is the quickest way or take an inland detour which can be long and sometimes impossible due to bad roads.

With neither the hovercraft nor helicopters working we were left with the ferry crossing as the only option - Of course the road to Lungi Airport is so bad (recently, I read it was going to be re-tarred. Hope it’s true) it wasn’t an option.
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Hey,

Just coming back from the launch of the Business Bomba, Business Plan Competition Sierra Leone! This competition aims to increase economic activity and thereby employment in the whole of Sierra Leone.

I must say I was rather impressed by the professionalism of the whole affair. For starters, everything was on schedule, the function was chaired by the Honourable Minister Of Trade and Industry, Mr David Carew and the H.E. Vice President Dr. Sam Sumana, gave the keynote address and officially launched the ceremony.
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