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OPEN LETTER TO THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY: HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE SLPP’S WIN ON 24 JUNE

Opinions, Politics /

Why it matters to understand the APC’s posture now There is a context in which to understand the elections results that come out after the 24th of June polls, which will end in a victory for the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP). It is natural with politics everywhere that an opposition would try to portray […]

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SALONE EDITORIALS: Julius Maada Bio: Motivations And Character

Editorials, Opinions /

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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SALONE EDITORIALS: Why APC Should Lose The 2023 Elections

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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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Free Secondary Education In African Countries Is On The Rise – But Is It The Best Policy? What The Evidence Says

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By Mohammed Alhassan Abango and Leslie Casely-Hayford When President Salva Kiir announced the abolition of secondary school fees in South Sudan in February 2023, he was following several fellow African leaders. Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Sierra Leone, Togo, and Zambia have all announced free secondary education policies in the last five years. Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa were early trendsetters in this regard. Despite

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