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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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
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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The following is a letter sent to Secretary of State, Anthony John Blinken requesting the United States government to remind the government of Sierra Leone of its obligation to investigate and address threats made Africanist Press staff and determine what steps the government has taken regarding the reported threats and cyber harassment of Africanist Press
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By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman About a dozen Sierra Leonean officials are due to arrive in New York early next week to inspect the Chancery Building of the Sierra Leone Mission. The building previously served as the headquarters of Sierra Leonean diplomats assigned to the United Nations in New York.
The Africanist Press publishes the following statement from the Lunsar Advocacy Group in the United States of America to express our solidarity in the ongoing defense of the rights of Professor Sheikh Umarr Conteh who is currently detained without charge in Sierra Leone. Read the full statement below: “Our lives begin to end the day
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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 –
By Bill McKibben The strangest thing about the coronavirus is that we can’t help one another through it. We can’t lay on hands, we can only wash them: in fact, the way we’ve been explicitly told to help is to stay away from one another. That makes epidemiological sense, but it also makes us a
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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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Escrito por Michel Tapia Muchos años atrás desde el Chile post dictadura de Pinochet (1990) que diferentes actores esperábamos un estallido social producto de un sistema capitalista excesivo en el escenario mundial. Excesivo en súper explotación y concentración de la riqueza(salarios sin relación con el costo de vida mínimo, sostenido por endeudamiento junto con altos
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