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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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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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Emerging Epidemiological Models in the Fight Against Corona: Lessons for Sierra Leone and Africa

By Mohamed Gibril Sesay This is an argument for African countries, including Sierra Leone, given scare resources, to focus on the particularly vulnerable in efforts to do physical distancing and isolation as a means of flattening the coronavirus disease infection curve. The particularly vulnerable, given current epidemiological data, are people above 60 and those – …

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Covering the Corona Outbreak: Safety procedures for journalists

The COVID-19 virus (also known as novel coronavirus) is now present across every continent, excluding Antarctica, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) The WHO declared the outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern on January 31, 2020; raised its global risk assessment from “high” to “very high” on February 28, and …

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CPJ launches 2019 #FreeThePress campaign

The Committee to Protect Journalists today launched its annual #FreeThePress campaign to raise awareness of jailed journalists globally. The campaign will highlight the plight of several journalists via CPJ’s Instagram account. In dictatorships and developing democracies alike imprisonment has become an effective method to silence the press, with record numbers jailed globally in the past three …

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HIV Researchers authorize widespread use of PrEP

By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah  A new research presented at the HIV Drug Therapy Conference in Glasgow today shows that pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) could be given to millions of people worldwide with no increased risk of safety issues during treatment.  PrEP is a combination of two drugs that people can take before sex to prevent …

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