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By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay 

Africa’s longest-serving leader, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, 73, has won a new term in office. He was declared winner of last week’s presidential election after securing his usual 90% and above in the polls. Nguema got 93% of the total vote cast and his party won 153 seats in Parliament out of the available 155.

Nguema has won the last two elections by 95% and 97% respectively, in the process raising some huge questions about the credibility of the election.

Fourah Bay College has been in the news lately for all the wrong reasons. They range from the college authorities suspending lectures because students had failed to register and protested that they should not be sent out of class, to lecturers going on a sit-down strike over unresolved negotiated pay and conditions. There has been much talk that the college alumni have an important role to play to turn things around.

By Ambassador John Hoover

As people around the globe observe Earth Day on April 22, world leaders are making history at the United Nations in New York.

Over 100 countries will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change.

This marks a turning point in the story of our planet and may set a record for the largest number of signers to an international agreement in a single day.

By Ambassador John Hoover

As people around the globe observe Earth Day on April 22, world leaders are making history at the United Nations in New York.

Over 100 countries will sign the Paris Agreement on climate change.

This marks a turning point in the story of our planet and may set a record for the largest number of signers to an international agreement in a single day.

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

When you are a citizen of a country in which you reside and yet you do not feel part of it, the experience can be complicated. That’s the situation for the people of Sorogbeima and Makpele chiefdoms in the southern Pujehun District. And they are calling on the Sierra Leone government to take up its responsibilities by treating them as the citizens that they are.

On 19 May 2014, the controversially-elected president of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) stepped into the well of parliament to address MPs about allegations of match-fixing in Sierra Leone football, with particular reference to the country's Under-20 match against their Ghanaian counterparts in the southern city of Bo.

The mercurial and increasingly temperamental then sports minister, Paul Kamara had made the allegations following Sierra Leone's 2 - 0 defeat by Ghana in that match.

By Usman Kamara

Introduction

The issue of corruption in the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) has always been the reason for truncating its authority over the years and establishment of separate entities to discharge those functions.  Ironically public outcry against the succeeding ones remains unabated.  Public indignation and resentment against the police for its remnant functions whenever perception surveys are conducted is also said to be relentless.