Feature

By Oumar Farouk Sesay
More than sixty years after gaining independence from Britain, perhaps Sierra Leone stands alone in West Africa as the sole country still being led by the same political parties established before its liberation – the All People’s Congress (APC) and the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP).

By Abubakarr Bah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,

By Ishmail Pamsm-Conteh, PhD (Law)

There is a legal principle that the law constrains even the highest political official, as a bedrock of democracy. According to David Dunlap, a retired US Judge, in authoritarian governments the persons in charge not only make the laws, they are the laws. But not so in constitutional democracies.

By Mabinty M. Kmara

Mariatu 13, (not her real name), is a Sierra Leonean who lived with foster parents in Freetown and hoped for a better life through education. She was living together with two biological children of her caregivers, a boy and a girl of the same age.

Mariatu’s Aunt would later secure enrolment into a nursing course in the provinces where she temporarily relocated leaving the girl and the other kids in the care of the husband. She would pay weekend visits depending on the situation with her coursework.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The attempted Coup of November 26, 2023 which resulted in 18 security personnel losing their lives is a day that has been cataloged in the history of this country among a few other dates that ordinary Sierra Leoneans would always wish to forget.

By Abu Bakarr Tarawally (Policy Analyst, Budget Advocacy Network)

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