Ernest Bai Koroma
Also: Zimbabwe, Bangladesh, music that brings peoples together and ‘Super Tuesday’.
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| Sir David Frost |
Every week, Sir David Frost, one of the most celebrated broadcasters, offers you a programme which takes its stories and guests from every part of the globe.
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Coming up this week on Frost over the World: |
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| Ernest Bai Koroma discusses his efforts to combat corruption in Sierra Leone |
In 2002, Sierra Leone emerged from a brutal 10-year civil war, which claimed tens of thousands of lives.
He now faces the daunting task of reviving the country’s fortunes after years of corruption, economic mismanagement and violence.
Watch the interview with Ernest Bai Koroma on YouTube
Mutumwa Mawere
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| Mutumwa Mawere discusses Zimbabwe’s political future |
Zimbabwe’s recent troubles have been well documented in the media.
The country’s economy is in tatters with inflation said to be running at 150,000 per cent and unemployment rife.
Exacerbating this, dissent is rarely tolerated by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF government.
Makoni becomes the first high-profile Zanu-PF member to publicly challenge Mugabe, raising hopes for more competitively fought elections.
Mutumwa Mawere, the chairman of the Africa Heritage Society, joins Sir David to discuss the new candidate and the prospects for political change in Zimbabwe.
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Radwan Siddiq, Sheikh Hasina’s nephew, talks |
Last July, Sheikh Hasina, the former prime minister of Bangladesh, was arrested on charges of corruption.
This came as part of a clampdown by the interim government, which has pledged to clean up Bangladeshi politics before the elections at the end of 2008.
However, this week a Bangladesh high court declared the corruption trial of Sheikh Hasina unlawful.
If the supreme court upholds the decision it could jeopardise the government’s efforts to tackle high-level corruption.
Siddiq talks about Sheikh Hasina’s future role in Bangladeshi politics and criticises the interim government’s democratic credentials.
Watch the interviews with Mutumwa Mawere and Radwan Siddiq on YouTube
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| Classical musician Daniel Barenboim has been awarded honorary Palestinian citizenship |
Daniel Barenboim is regarded as one of the world’s finest classical musicians.
In 2001 Barenboim broke a long-running taboo by conducting a piece by Wagner in Israel.
He also assembled an orchestra consisting of young Arabs and Israelis.
Recently, Barenboim was awarded honorary Palestinian citizenship after holding a concert in Ramallah.
Barenboim joins Sir David to discuss his hopes for a lasting peace settlement between the Israelis and Palestinians. He also talks about the role music can play in bringing people together.
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| Laura Schwartz, left, and Kiron Skinner give Sir the David the lowdown on ‘Super Tuesday’ |
The current presidential race is one of the most exciting for years. With a strong crop of candidates and an electorate hungry for change, the US is already gripped with election fever.
The battle between the Democratic candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton looks as though it will go to the wire.
Meanwhile, John McCain emerged as the Republican frontrunner although he did not quite do enough to secure his candidacy.
Laura Schwartz, who worked in Bill Clinton’s White House, and Kiron Skinner, a Republican academic, join Sir David from the US.
They discuss the implications of Tuesday’s results and examine the relative strength of each of the political parties.
Frost Over The World airs at 18:00GMT every Friday on XEn News English and is repeated during the week.