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Questioning President Koroma’s democratic credentials

By James Tamba Lebbie

Once again the parliamentary bye-election in the All Peoples Congress’ “stronghold” of Mile 91 – scheduled for 29 June 2013 but which didn’t take place - has brought President Ernest Bai Koroma’s democratic credentials under sharp scrutiny. And once again, the same incident has lent credence to what many observers have been saying - that the APC is afraid of elections and is incapable of winning any clean, credible and transparent poll.

The environmental cost of Sierra Leone’s water poverty

By James Tamba Lebbie

In his address in December on the occasion of the State Opening of the First Session of the Fourth Parliament of the Second Republic of Sierra Leone (whatever that means), in December 2012, this is what President Ernest Bai Koroma said in December about providing water for the people of Sierra Leone:

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