…WIMSAL Must Go Beyond Statements The launch of WIMSAL’s new safeguarding policy is welcome, but as a graduate with a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from Fourah Bay College and a woman working in Sierra Leone’s media space, I am left asking a more uncomfortable question: what exactly does “action” mean if we are unwilling […]
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Osman Foday Yansaneh (R) and Lansana Dumbuya (L) The High Court’s interim injunction against Osman Foday Yansaneh and Lansana Dumbuya is more than another legal headache for Sierra Leone’s main opposition party. It strikes at the very machinery the APC needs to prepare for 2028. The order, as reported in the local media, prevents the
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By Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh A few years ago, government leaders in developing countries worried about debt, unemployment, or the next election. Today, the answer is usually all of them at once, compounded by climate shocks, food and fuel crises, and rising debt obligations, while development assistance becomes less predictable and citizens rightly continue to expect
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Now that the MCC compact is here, we expect to see the promise of an energy transition come to pass and have several positive impacts on the business environment in Sierra Leone. Sierra Leone, a small West African country rich in natural resources yet facing significant developmental challenges, may have just achieved a major socio-political
Over the past two weeks, Mayor-elect Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr has come under attack on Social Media and, by way of official reprimand, by the supervisory Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development of the Government of Sierra Leone, for her international engagements; while refusing to take up office in Freetown, the country’s capital city. As
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When the Sierra Leone People’s Party, SLPP, put forward Mohamed Gento Kamara and Reverend Samuel Babatunde Thomas, it was a genuine attempt at the foundational blocks to address the wretched state of affairs in the country’s capital city, Freetown. Essentially, the SLPP came to the conclusion that the future of Freetown will remain bleak under
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The run-up to the elections As elections draw closer in Sierra Leone, we look at the two leading political parties’ chances of victory in the small but resource-rich West African nation, whose 3.2 million voters head to the polls on June 24, 2023. We affirm that there are two major contenders – The candidate for
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The APC never makes any effort to pursue a middle ground on any grievance that promotes good governance or good politics. The APC always simply asks that things be done their own way. APC said there should be no accountability for their deeds in office between 2007 and 2018.
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No political leader in the history of Sierra Leone has endured such sustained insults and character assassination as Julius Maada Bio, then as a candidate for his Sierra Leone People’s Party, the SLPP, and as President of Sierra Leone. The smear campaign and character assassination began within his own party when Bio sought to lead
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The 24th June elections will be Sierra Leone’s third election in which an incumbent government seeks a second-term mandate. It was President Ahmed Tejan-Kabbah who first sought a second-term mandate in 2002, followed by Ernest Bai Koroma in 2012 and now Julius Maada Bio in 2023. Neither President Ahmed Tejan-Kabbah nor Ernest Bai Koroma’s second-term
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