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International Peace Bureau Calls for Global Support for Africanist Press Solidarity Tour

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By Mark Feldman and Nik Harris The International Peace Bureau (IPB) has issued an appeal to the global peace movement and human rights organizations for support of a solidarity tour organized by Africanist Press. The tour aims to mobilize support for the protection of fundamental rights in Sierra Leone and beyond. The IPB is a […]

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Sierra Leone: How Global Energy Leaders Designed a Strategy to Make Kandeh Yumkella President

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and Matthew Anderson Records from a meeting held in early June 2012 in Sierra Leone between officials from the Ernest Bai Koroma administration and a delegation from the European Commission and the United Nations reveal the existence of a global energy network that initiated efforts to support Kandeh Yumkella’s political

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Sierra Leone: Land Leased Out for $1 Results into $1 Billion National Debt

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah and Matthew Anderson An ambitious energy project to build an electricity power plant in Freetown has incurred more than $1 billion in debt despite the land for the project being leased for $1 in 2017. Fifteen years after its conception, there has been no construction of the power plant in

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Electricity Corruption in Sierra Leone: Cumulative Costs Between Ernest Bai Koroma and Julius Maada Bio

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah In mid June 2024, Sierra Leone’s Julius Maada Bio and his cabinet officials held an event in Freetown to launch the construction of a US-funded electricity power plant in Freetown. The $412 million electricity infrastructure project promised to construct a new 126.5-MW Liquified Natural Gas Power Plant in Freetown, Sierra

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Gambian Lawyers demand protection for  Sierra Leone academic ahead of visit to the country

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By Mark Feldman and Nik Harris A law firm in the Gambia is demanding security protection for Sierra Leonean academic and journalist, Dr. Chernoh Alpha Bah, ahead of his proposed visit to his home country of Sierra Leone. Attorneys at Modou Drameh and Associates say they have sent a letter to Sierra Leone’s President Julius

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Free Speech and Academic Freedom in Sierra Leone: The Case of the Africanist Press

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah  Last month, the Committee of Concerned Scientists (CCS) invited me to speak at their annual meeting. Held on Sunday March 30, this year’s annual CCS meeting also featured science journalist, Olga Dobrovidova, who gave a presentation on science in Russia, and Louisa Greve who spoke on the current situation of the Uyghur people.

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Sierra Leone: Historian to speak at Annual Meeting of Scientists

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By Matthew Anderson and Mark Feldman The annual meeting of the Committee of Concerned Scientists (CCS) will on Sunday March 30 hear a Sierra Leone voice for the first time since its establishment. This year’s annual CCS meeting will also feature science journalist, Olga Dobrovidova speaking on science in Russia, and Omer Kanat speaking on

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Why West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak Needs to be Investigated

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Almost ten year ago, on April 4, 2015, a serious controversy erupted in Kailahun district in the eastern region of Sierra Leone. It involved a dispute between an opposition politician Alex Bonapha and district health officials in Kailahun, regarding the test result of a deceased child. The child, a 9

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IPB, Rights Groups Condemn Attacks on Cameroon’s Human Rights Defenders

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By Nik Harris and M. M. Shaw    International human rights organizations have condemned ongoing attacks on Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme (NDH), a human rights organization based in Cameroon. In mid-January, unidentified individuals broke into NDH’s offices in Yaoundé, taking away essential documents and office equipment. The looted materials included laptops and desktop computers, hard

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Crisis, Disease, and Charity: A Reflection on Aid and Corruption in Sierra Leone

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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Ten years ago, a local newspaper in Sierra Leone reported that Ernest Bai Koroma, then president of Sierra Leone, had called on international organizations to account for millions of dollars they had received on behalf of Sierra Leone for the fight against the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Koroma’s statement

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