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Year: 2021

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YAD Celebrates Annual Youth Cohesion Day in Kenema

25/12/2021 CEN

Loud, jam-packed, colourful and mesmerizing was the YAD’s Peace and Unity Hall in Kenema as hundreds of youth representing diverse youth groups converged on  Christmas eve to celebrate the annual [Read more]

Critique Column

The Paradox of Free Speech and the Libel Criminal Law.

24/12/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

The Sierra Leone Criminal Libel Law was introduced by Sir Albert Margai of the SLPP in 1965. Undoubtedly, it became one of the most draconian sledgehammers used to muzzle and [Read more]

Critique Column

YAD Inaugurates Community Toilets in Niawa Chiefdom

21/12/2021 CEN

The inhabitants of Niawa and Langurama Chiefdoms have started celebrating Christmas before due as they formally received today, Monday 20th December 2021, 49 blocks of community toilets constructed in all [Read more]

Critique Column

You Can’t Build A Peaceful Nation On Empty Stomachs and Human Misery.

19/12/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

It is an open secret that the price of goods and especially food stuff worldwide, has skyrocketed in the past two years. Many see these changes as not only coincidental [Read more]

Critique Column

You Cannot Choose Between Right or Wrong by Taking a Census

12/12/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

A census is generally described as the procedure of systematically calculating, acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.  Sierra Leone conducted a mid-term census on Friday, [Read more]

Critique Column

Much Ado About Nothing

02/12/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

President Bio has usually been accused of downloading and uploading a lot of bureaucrats and technocrats onto his administration. Since our nations independence, there has been a preponderance of “career [Read more]

Critique Column

Is There A Higher Law Than the Constitution?

26/11/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

Defining a constitution can be difficult, but for the purpose of this article, let’s say “a constitution is a body of fundamental principles or established precedents according to which a [Read more]

Critique Column

A President Cannot Defend a Nation if He is Not Held Accountable to Its Laws.

18/11/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

 “When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorises it [Read more]

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Young Philanthropist Raises Hope of Fire Victims

17/11/2021 CEN

A young professional and philanthropist, Mahawa Sandi in her own capacity has provided food and water to the medical teams and victims of the tragic fire incident that occurred in [Read more]

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David A. Kamara Honored As Humanitarian Goodwill Ambassador

17/11/2021 CEN

The Orphan Empowerment Society Sierra Leone (T.O.E.S SL) has awarded the CEO – A Call to Business Savings and Loans Limited, David A. Kamara as a Humanitarian Goodwill Ambassador at [Read more]

Critique Column

Nyali Foundation Donates to Fire Victims

17/11/2021 Francis Kamara

Saturday 13 November 2021 was a day of relief for families of the Wellington fire victims as Nyali Foundation collaborated with Abu Kai to make a huge donation of 100 [Read more]

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Citizenship: The Right to Have Rights

17/11/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

In a recent announcement, President Bio declared in a tweet that “Another promise made and delivered! My government has just approved and authorised the Attorney General to lay in parliament [Read more]

Critique Column

Put Salone Fos: Give to Caesar What Belongs To Caesar.

17/11/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

The life and reign of the late and former President Siaka Stevens would not be complete without a mention of the One-Party State he created and betrothed to our nation. [Read more]

Critique Column

Politics: The Theatre of Deceit, Where Ignorance Is Not A Handicap.

04/11/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

Democracy, like the mind is a beautiful thing, when left unadulterated. It is not perfect but can be the best form of government if promoted, protected, practised and implemented if [Read more]

Critique Column

You Cannot Fight Corruption Without Integrity and Transparency.

04/11/2021 Abdulai Mansaray

President Bio came to power in 2018, and made the fight against corruption, among others his signature vison and policy. But he wisely reminded us all, that the fight will [Read more]

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YAD Concludes Annual TVET Graduation in Grand Style

26/01/2026

On January 23rd and 24th, 2024, YAD added another chapter to its ongoing youth and women’s empowerment initiatives by hosting its annual TVET graduation in a spectacular fashion. Each year, [Read more]

Critique Column

The Silence of the Lambs: Why Sierra – Leone’s Legal Guardians Must Not Stand Aside: Comparative Lessons and Constitutional Theory for a Critical Moment

25/01/2026

n Sierra Leone’s debate over the 2025 Constitutional Amendment Bill, the most troubling feature is not the substance of the proposals themselves but the silence that has settled around them. [Read more]

Critique Column

Democracy After Empire: George M. Carew’s Case for Deliberation in Postcolonial Africa

25/01/2026

A familiar strain of Western political theory has long portrayed African states as inherently incapable of self-government—an outlook that endured both the rhetoric of colonial “civilizing missions” and the administrative [Read more]

Critique Column

BARMAGEDDON- (An E-Bar Exclusive) 004: A Constitution Rewritten for Order, Not for Liberty

25/01/2026

There is a peculiar habit in young democracies. They rewrite their constitutions not when liberty is openly threatened, but when authority feels insufficiently secure. The Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) [Read more]

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