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The scourge of sexual violence in West Africa, unveiled

November 2, 2022 no comments

Respectively 60.6% and 62% of women in Liberia and Sierra Leone have experienced at least one act of sexual violence in their life. IStock Adama Ouedraogo, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; Clair...

Poor quality leadership and weak institutions has led to poor governan...

November 2, 2022 no comments

Regular elections have not translated to development in Nigeria. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Abiodun Fatai, PhD, Lagos State University Since gaining independence on 1 October 1960, Nigeria...

Africanist Press Reports – Sierra Leone President illegally susp...

November 16, 2021 no comments

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio has indefinitely suspended two of the most senior members of the country’s national auditin...

Africanist Press Reports – Sierra Leone President Julius Maada B...

October 18, 2021 no comments

Africanist Press has authenticated evidence from Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission’s (NEC), including documentation of recent promotions and postings of electoral staff. These documents sh...

The Politics of Deceit – The President of Sierra Leone uses the...

October 12, 2021 no comments

It is indeed a lethal concoction when you have a crook as President who then appoints a stooge as Anti-Corruption Chief who is always ready to dance to the tune of his corrupt paymaster. Julius ...

The recycled Junta politics operating in Sierra Leone

September 5, 2021 no comments

At the helm of government in Sierra Leone is a notorious fraudster, who was elected into office as president only because the people of the country wanted a difference and were tired of being ruled b...

The morally and democratically bankrupt president of Sierra Leone &#82...

May 6, 2021 no comments

Prior to the 2012 presidential elections in Sierra Leone, I was vehemently opposed to the candidature of Julius Maada Bio as the flag-bearer of the SLPP in Sierra leone for various reasons. And I war...

Why Former President Koroma did not attend appeal court hearing in Sie...

May 6, 2021 no comments

Appeal Court Judges presiding over findings and recommendations into the Commissions of Inquiry have ordered former President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, 2018 APC Presidential Flagbearer Dr. Samura Kamara...

Sierra Leone is using lessons from Ebola to prepare for coronavirus

May 4, 2021 no comments

Jia B. Kangbai, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease, COVID-19, started at the end of 2019 in Wuhan, China. It is spreading rapidly around the world an...

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