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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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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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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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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This article was first published on 18 April 2005 during the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) administration of Tejan Kabbah. By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah I read with amusement last Thursday Dr. Sama Banya’s statement that he has placed me and Concord Times in his “will not grant interview list.” Dr. Banya says he has
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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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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
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.
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Few months ago, the British media enthusiastically reported that “Idris Elba has shared details of his dream to turn an island off the coast of Sierra Leone, the country where his father was born, into an environmentally friendly smart city.“ The Guardian took the lead in the enthusiasm that surrounded
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The following article was first published by the Africanist Press on 7 June, 2016 following the controversial 2016 Sierra Leone Bar Association’s executive elections. The article was republished by several newspapers in Freetown, including The Independent Observer, and Global Times. We republish it today to underline that the current crisis of the Sierra
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