AWE Media Sierra Leone

By: Alusine Rehme Wilson Forgetting or ignoring the past suggests that we are refusing to learn a noteworthy lessons as a nation and thus stand the greatest possibility of reverting to our old ways. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) Report points out that many of the dire conditions that gave rise to the 1991 conflict still remain... As in the late 1980s, (and up to date) many young adults continue to occupy urban ghettoes where they languish in the twilight zone of unemployment and despair. Thus, allowing the devil to give jobs to the idle hands and that has giving rise to sporadic act of violent conflict involving youth across the country and Makeni city is not an isolation.  Media Reform Coordinating Group (MRCG) with support from Africa Transitional Justice Legislative Fund (ATJLF) enhanced dialogue with key stakeholders on the causes and impacts of youth violence in Northeastern city of Makeni. In Makeni, a bulk number of violence related cases in courts whether tried ...