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ACC’s independence ‘questionable’ as boss’s mandate renewed

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Civil society organizations have welcomed the reappointment of the head of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara with caution.

News of the extension of the term of the ACC boss was revealed over the weekend in a statement from the anti-graft agency.

“President Ernest Bai Koroma has reappointed Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara to serve another five-year term as Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC),” reads part of the statement sent to Politico.

Sierra Leone's emergency rule gets political

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The public health emergency declared to stem the spread of the Ebola virus has taken a political dimension, amidst indication from the presidency to maintain the increasingly controversial status quo.

How Can SLPP Bounce Back To Political Leadership?

By Ibrahim Sheriff, Houston, Texas, USA

I am inclined to weigh in on the Sierra Leone People’s Party’s (SLPP) internal problems revolving on social media and other Sierra Leonean media and social spaces. Let me weigh in NOT as an operative of an independent radio station that I found and direct, and which is called Sherix Webradio, but as a Sierra Leonean who has the God-given right to freely participate in the affairs of the country.

How housing difficulties influence healthcare in Sierra Leone

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital is well known for its sprawling and congested slums which have become an eyesore to almost the entire citizenry of the country as disease outbreaks usually claim dozens of lives in such settlements. The clustered bungalows in these sprawling slums represent the symbol of leadership failure, coming out of the direct consequence of neglect by successive central and local government authorities.

Sierra Leone's neglect of public archiving

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

“BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives in this present Parliament assembled . . ,” the 1965 Public Archives Office (PAO) Act of Sierra Leone, enacted when Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston was Governor-General of Sierra Leone, reads.

One man's dream of attaining Inclusive Education in Sierra Leone

By Kemo Cham

Education For All has been one of the most popular mantras in the Sierra Leone government's development agenda. But campaigners for equal opportunity in education say without Inclusive Education, Education for All is unattainable.

Inclusive education basically means everyone, regardless of age, sex, gender or physical characteristics, gets access to education.

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