Is Sierra Leone’s Police Force still a ‘Force for Good’?
Keith Biddle recalls his time as Sierra Leone’s first post-war police boss
Sierra Leone
How a group of single mothers is changing lives in Sierra Leone
By Joshua Lew McDermott Just south of Bo, the second largest city in Sierra Leone, lies Tinkonko, a bustling and largely-rural chiefdom home to about 54,000 individuals. Like the rest of Sierra Leone, Tinkonko has a high prevalence of single mothers, especially teenage mothers, and at-risk children and orphans. A 2013 United Nations report states …
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The APC’s Dance Parade Does Not Indicate an Election Victory
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Much has been said about the All Peoples Congress (APC) dance parade this past Friday. In particular, ruling party propagandists and their supporters have celebrated the dancing crowd, including the violence that accompanied the masquerade. They are claiming that the crowds that trooped into the streets of Freetown on Friday …
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How NGC and Kandeh Yumkellah Plunged Themselves into a Legal Mess
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah When NGC officials confirmed Kandeh Yumkellah as their party’s presidential candidate in late 2017, little did they realize that they had plunged their party into a deep kettle of a mess. In the course of the confirmation, NGC officials noted that Yumkellah had renounced his foreign citizenship status in November …
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Electoral Politics of the Dual Citizenship Debate in Freetown
By: Chernoh Alpha M. Bah Ernest Bai Koroma and his APC are now fully convinced that they will not win the upcoming elections in a free and fair contest. APC presidential candidate Samura Kamara is extremely unpopular and has failed to electrify the APC base. The divisive and anti-democratic actions of the Koroma regime over …
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Yumkellah’s NGC: Windshield Wiper Politicians and Social Media Vigilantes
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah In early December 2017, the Sierra Leonean political scientist Zubairu Wai, in an incisive social media comment titled “the dilemma of a ghost,” characterized Kandeh Yumkellah as “a parachute politician who believes he is doing the country a favor by running for president.” Wai notes that Yumkellah’s militant desire for …
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Kandeh Yumkellah and the Political Jihadists of the NGC in Sierra Leone
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah The people of Sierra Leone are fed-up with the excruciating pain, economic hardship, and political disaster that the government of Ernest Bai Koroma and his kleptomaniac gang of rogue politicians have inflicted on the country. If there is one thing that we are all united in, as pro-democratic forces …
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Sierra Leone President Violates Election Laws
The Chairman Political Parties Registration Commission Tower Hill Freetown Sierra Leone December 21, 2017 Dear Sir; PRESIDENT ERNEST KOROMA’S VIOLATION OF PUBLIC ELECTIONS RULES & POLITICAL PARTIES CODE OF CONDUCT I write in reference to the above subject matter and to particularly draw your attention to the obvious violations by the leadership of the All …
From Illegality to Jungle Justice: The Crisis of Fourah Bay College Continues
By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah The crisis of Fourah Bay College (FBC) reached the apex of its surreal drama this weekend. In what many have described as an unprecedented situation in the more than one hundred year history of the institution, the Court of the University of Sierra Leone announced Friday that it has “summarily …
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