If it is not intimidation and detention of political opponents, it is police brutality against the people and rival politicians of the governing party. If it is not electoral hurly-burly, it is inciting...
Amid the spread of disinformation-fueled “opinion media” in democratic societies, and government censorship and propaganda in autocracies, press freedom is declining globally. Sierra Leone, however,...
Eighty-Seven (87) per cent of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) COVID-19 loans are requiring Sierra Leone and other developing countries that have been denied equal access to vaccines and are facing...
That April morning, I was at home, preparing food for the family at the police quarters where we stayed in Bandset. My husband is a policeman and he and all the other men had gone for work. My son was...
Re-denominating the Leone is a stroke of genius on the part of the Government. It has a positive effect on the currency’s reputation. The Leone now has prestige globally. The Bank Governor, Prof. Kelfala...
32-year-old Kadiatu Koroma, a petty trader, may have had the courage to contest an accusation that she stole a handbag from another passenger in a public transport she was travelling in between Makeni...
On April 12, 2021, Fatmata Binta Bah a student of the Institute of Public Administration and Management (IPAM), was maltreated by police officers deployed at the Institute's campus to quell a student protest....
Most people in Africa, especially Sierra Leone, still do not understand that the world is changing. First, the twin shocks of Ebola and the fall in global iron ore prices in 2014 saw the collapse of the...
One of the most difficult ventures in the fight against corruption the world over has been the drive to initiate accountability within the public sector space, especially with public officers. The nature...
On Friday, July 1st, a new set of currencies will be introduced in Sierra Leone. The New Leone, as the Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) calls it, is part of the first re-denomination of the Sierra Leonean legal...
