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Kandeh Yumkella: A Terror Mask Behind Maada Bio’s 2028 Election Agenda

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Ahead of the 2018 presidential elections in Sierra Leone (3 July 2017), I published a series of articles evaluating Kandeh Yumkella and his newly constituted National Grand Coalition (NGC) in Sierra Leone. On that day, Yumkella had called a press conference at the Brookfield’s Hotel in Freetown to announce the […]

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The Anti-Democratic Appetite of Sierra Leone’s Political Elites Needs to be Stopped

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Last week, we informed you that Sierra Leonean politicians have created a new anti-terrorism law that contains unconstitutional provisions designed to curtail citizens’ fundamental civil rights. The proposed legislation would have been voted into law on Thursday morning (January 23), but the vote, which was deferred for Tuesday morning (January

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Sierra Leone: Politicians Plan on Seeking Trump Administration’s Support to Silence Critics

By Matthew Anderson and Mark Feldman  Few days ago, we reported in the Africanist Press that Sierra Leonean politicians have created a new anti-terrorism law that contains unconstitutional provisions designed to curtail citizens’ fundamental civil rights. The proposed legislation would have been voted into law on Thursday morning (January 23), but the vote has been

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Sierra Leone: Parliament Endorses Sweeping Anti-Democratic Law to Silence Critics

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman In a shocking move, Sierra Leonean politicians have created a new anti-terrorism law that contains unconstitutional provisions designed to curtail citizens’ fundamental civil rights. The proposed legislation will be voted into law on Thursday morning (January 23), without any of the usual public consultation and

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International Peace Bureau (IPB) Calls for Unity Among  Liberia’s House of Representatives

By Matthew Anderson and Mark Feldman The International Peace Bureau (IPB) has called on members of Liberia’s House of Representatives  to unite and end the ongoing parliamentary deadlock that has affected the country’s legislative activities since October 2024. “Liberia is at a crucial point where the challenges of economic recovery, governance, peacebuilding, and social unity require

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A Reflection on Corruption, Dictatorship, and Disease in Sierra Leone

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah About ten years ago in mid-April 2015, reports emerged in Freetown that ten people – all of them opposition party activists – were arrested from their various homes across the city. The arrests followed a massive police raid in response to a youth protest that occurred three days earlier at

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Africanist Press to launch new book on Corruption and Dictatorship in Sierra Leone

By Matthew Anderson and Mark Feldman Democracy Betrayed: Corruption, Dictatorship, and Authoritarianism in Sierra Leone is a new book scheduled to be launched by the Africanist Press in June 2025; two years after the disputed June 2023 elections in Sierra Leone. The book, written by Africanist Press editor Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, examines the root

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Sierra Leone journalist forced into exile after revealing government corruption, seeks refuge in the U.S.

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island — From a young age amidst the harsh realities of poverty, my mother and uncle raised me. Where I grew up in Sierra Leone, many families lived in mud houses with thatched roofs. Ours was made of cement, creating a visible contrast. We adapted to the lack of basic services like running

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From Meliandou to Koindu to Evanston: How My Investigation of a Disease Narrative Changed My Life and Career

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Eight years ago, on 28 October 2016, I was invited to Evanston, Illinois, as a guest speaker by Northwestern University’s Program of African Studies (PAS). A few months earlier, my book on the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreak had just been published and I was on a self-funded book tour

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APC and Samura Kamara are Heading for Defeat in 2018

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah This essay was first published on March 28, 2018 Events unfolding in Freetown this week have illustrated the political mood in Sierra Leone. The incumbent regime of Ernest Bai Koroma and his All Peoples Congress (APC) have been all-but-defeated and are now in a permanently collapsing defensive position. There is

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