The court of public opinion on Sierra Leone is in full swing, thanks to the recent political and judicial gymnastics surrounding the former President of Sierra Leone Dr Ernest Bai [Read more]
It is an irrefutable fact, that corruption is the enemy of development and good governance. It is therefore imperative that fighting corruption should be a national objective for the government [Read more]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), also known as CEDEAO in French and Portuguese, is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. [Read more]
According to the Global Peace Index of 2023, Sierra Leone ranks 47th among 83 most peaceful countries in the world, above Ghana, Zambia, France, etc (Institute for Economics and Peace). [Read more]
When the devil incarnate Corporal Foday Sankoh launched one of the most barbaric acts against his countrymen in 1991, Sierra Leone was in the grip of dire hardship that characterised [Read more]
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Alpha Ibrahim Sesay recently concluded the 10th Ministerial Meeting of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) in Vienna, Austria on 24th November, 2023. [Read more]
Reverend Kabbs Kanu, the proprietor of the Cocorioko Newspaper lambasted the American ambassador to Sierra Leone Bryan Hunt for allegedly colluding with President Bio. In his article titled “America’s flip-flopping [Read more]
The European Union Election Observation Mission has finally published an 83-page, long awaited report on the Sierra Leone Election, 2023. The report catalogues the good, the bad and the ugly [Read more]
Many would have expected the conduct of the June 23rd elections in Sierra Leone to seal the political wrangling, gerrymandering, and politicking until another cycle. Some hoped that it would [Read more]
We are living in a world that is drowning in a wealth of information but afflicted by poverty of thought. Such a notion conjures images of social media, with all [Read more]
The US Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken issued a press statement on 31 August, 2023 on the visa restriction policy to be applied in Sierra Leone. Here is the [Read more]
The general election in Sierra Leone has come and gone. The drums may appear to have fallen silent, but like a swimming duck, there’s on going diplomatic gymnastics bubbling underneath [Read more]
As controversial as the question in the title might sound, Africa and especially its generations need to wrap their heads round this question. In the face of democracy as a [Read more]
It might have started long before Patrice Lumumba of the then Congo was betrayed and killed by the Belgians. Since then, the political history of Africa is known as the [Read more]
There seems to be a new political wind blowing across the Sahel, and the congealed ideologies within this wind of change is generally felt across the African continent. If the [Read more]
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