News Sierra Leone Politics: The silence of the lambs: Why Sierra Leone’s legal guardians must not stand aside
In Sierra Leone’s debate over the 2025 Constitutional Amendment Bill, the most troubling feature is not the substance of the proposals ...
News Sierra Leone Politics: Sierra Leone’s unfinished Constitution and the cost of ignoring national wealth
Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution was drafted to dismantle the 1978 one-party state and restore multiparty constitutional rule. That ...
News Sierra Leone Politics: Who paid the Price for 6th January 1999 and who will pay again? Op ed
Sixth January nineteen ninety-nine is not merely a historical reference. It is a national scar. It is the day Sierra Leone lost control ...
News Sierra Leone Politics: The Age of Aggression: How Strongman Politics Is Dismantling the Post-1945 Order
Across the past eight decades, the international community has experienced successive 'waves' of atrocity accountability—periods in which global norms either strengthened or eroded in the face of ...
News Sierra Leone Politics: Bintumani-III: political tension and national cohesion in Sierra Leone
Despite Sierra Leone’s transition from civil war to peace, political parties continue to stoke tensions along ethnic and regional lines to gain voter support. New commitments to create a peace ...
News Sierra Leone Politics: Inside Sierra Leone’s secret Soko Bana Poro tribe where members slice their mouths open with knives and spear themselves during mysterious rituals
EXTRAORDINARY images show inside Sierra Leone's secret societies ... wielding significant influence in politics, culture, and religion. Nicol calling for help from the gods before starting a ...
News Sierra Leone Politics: Sierra Leone: Female MP Bemoans Selective Attitude of Women's Groups
President of the Parliamentary Female Caucus, Hon. Veronica Kadie Sesay, has expressed dissatisfaction over the way and manner in which Women's organizations in Sierra Leone were deliberately leaving behind women in the provinces during and after elections.
News Sierra Leone Politics: New Afrobarometer data shows Africans want elections — especially if they bring change at the top
Judging by election quantity, multiparty competition appears firmly established in African politics. Yet all too often ... (such as 88 percent in the Gambia and 87 percent in Sierra Leone). Are ...
News Sierra Leone Politics: Sierra Leone: IGR Boss Pegs Salone Problem On Politics
The Director of Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) Andrew Lavalie has observed that the problem of Sierra Leone was not just with the institutions, but also the nature of 'our politics'. ...
News Sierra Leone Politics: Democracy Works: Re-Wiring Politics to Africa's Advantage
The proliferation of elections across Africa belies the extent to which political systems are diverging, with some countries experiencing peaceful oppositional transfers of power, such as Ghana or ...
News Sierra Leone Politics: The Inside Story of Europe's First Narco-State
Balili’s proximity to Albania’s political power base has ... expressed the fourth strongest desire to emigrate—outranked only by Haiti, Liberia and Sierra Leone. Young people first encounter ...
