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American Scientists Ask US Diplomats to Pressure Sierra Leone to Respect Academic Freedom

By Anne B. Wallis, PhD The Committee of Concerned Scientists (CCS) in the United States has asked US Secretary of State, Antony John Blinken to use the power of the State Department to urge the government of Sierra Leone to improve its human rights record and stop the targeted harassment of historian and journalist, Dr. …

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American Scientists Demand Protection for Sierra Leone’s Endangered Historian

By Matthew Anderson and Mark Feldman A Committee of Concerned Scientists (CCS) in the United States has requested US Secretary of State, Antony John Blinken to use the power of the State Department to urge the government of Sierra Leone to improve its human rights record and stop the targeted harassment of historian and journalist, …

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Ernest Koroma’s Path Towards Authoritarian Democracy in Sierra Leone

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah This essay was first published in May 2013. The 2013 Convention of the All Peoples Congress (APC) and its endorsement of President Ernest Koroma as the party’s chairman and leader created a huge debate across Sierra Leone. It is a debate that was anchored on key questions: the future of …

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Ernest Koroma’s Hand of Dictatorship in Sierra Leone

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah The following essay was first published in May 2013. The police arrest and detention of opposition politician and leader of the Peoples Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC), Charles Francis Margai has raised a huge red flag against presidential use of police power in Sierra Leone. The events that preceded Charles …

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Milele Energy: A Tragic Albatross to American Diplomacy in Sierra Leone

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, PhD Staggering revelations have emerged in London showing efforts by Milele Energy and its corporate financiers to cover-up an ongoing investigation into the company’s corrupt acquisition of an energy contract in Sierra Leone. New corporate records from the United Kingdom’s Registrar of Companies obtained by the Africanist Press reveal that …

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Milele Energy: An Embarrassment to US Diplomacy in Sierra Leone

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, PhD New developments have occurred last week in London relating to the United States-backed corporation, Milele Energy. The company’s two American executives, Erik Granskog and Jay Ireland have suddenly resigned from the company. This sudden and questionable resignation of Erik Granskog and James Ireland comes shortly after the United States …

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Committed Fight Against Corruption and Organized Crime

The West African country of Sierra Leone is struggling with massive problems: corruption, organized crime and resource exploitation are just some of them. Journalist Chernoh Alpha Bah focuses on precisely these problems in his home country and makes them understandable to the public in order to improve conditions in Sierra Leone for the good of …

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Failure of Diplomatic Propaganda: the United States Electricity Debt and Deception in Sierra Leone

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, PhD This weekend, Sierra Leonean politicians and a few foreign diplomats have been repeating an already exhausted propaganda message they have sold to Sierra Leoneans for five years now. On Friday September 27, United States corporate representatives and diplomats announced that the United States Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) has signed …

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Growing International Concerns Over Safety of Sierra Leonean Historian and Journalist

By Anne B. Wallis International human rights groups and press freedom organizations have continued to raise concerns for the safety of Sierra Leonean historian and journalist, Dr. Chernoh Alpha M. Bah. The American Historical Association (AHA) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) are among the list of press and academic freedom organizations to recently condemn the …

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Death of Sierra Leone’s Sheikh Umarr Khan: Unanswered Questions

Those who worked with Khan, including infectious disease experts in universities across the United States and Europe, had since moved on to lucrative academic and professional careers, receiving more grants and awards. In Sierra Leone, both Khan and the Ebola disease that killed him are now distant memory; they form part of the collective public trauma that Sierra Leoneans have experienced in the last two decades and unwillingly learned to forget.