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Month: January 2019

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A Leopard Never Changes Its Spots.

27/01/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

  The gunshots started raining down the streets of Harare on 14th November, 2017, and by the 21st, Emmerson Mnangagwa, the then former Vice President and former trench mate of [Read more]

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Should Ernest Koroma Protect His Legacy By Resigning From Politics?

27/01/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

The long awaited Commission of Enquiry in Sierra Leone is due to commence this week, and this is against the backdrop of accusations and counter-accusations that have dogged the whole [Read more]

Critique Column

Is Victor Foh a Blessing or a Curse To Sierra Leone Politics?

27/01/2019 By Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray

A basic principle of democracy is that parties have to accept that their opponents are sometimes going to win. Fight the election hard, maybe even bitterly, but at the end [Read more]

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Nonviolence: The Answer to The Crucial Political Moral Questions Of Our Time. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

23/01/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

President Julius Maada Bio and his Vice President Dr Juldeh Jalloh   have recently concluded a major segment of their national Thank You Tour in Kono District which many and especially [Read more]

Europe

Italy and France at Diplomatic War Over Continued Colonization of Africa

22/01/2019 CEN

“We would be hypocrites if we just continued to talk about the effects without looking for the causes. If today we have people coming from Africa it’s because some European [Read more]

Critique Column

Journalism Can Never Be Silent: A fault or a virtue?

22/01/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

There has been a spate of reported attacks on journalists recently, with the latest taking place against AYV reporters in Makeni. This took place when the CID officers visited the [Read more]

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YAD Commissioned Its National Headquarters And Multipurpose Youth Resource Centre In Kenema

15/01/2019 By Saffa B. Moriba in Kenema

Youth in Action for Development (YAD), a voluntary youth serving agency based in the eastern administrative capital of Kenema, has on Saturday, 12th January, 2019 inaugurated its newly constructed headquarters [Read more]

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Is Honesty the Best Policy in Sierra Leone’s Politics?

08/01/2019 By Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray

It was in 1996; the country was returning to a fragile state of stability, the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC) had been kicked out [Read more]

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Non Violence: The Summit of Bravery.

02/01/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

If Gibrill Bangura ever wanted popularity by means of his inalienable right to freedom of speech, he has done the opposite by ranking up his notoriety in the Sierra Leone [Read more]

Breaking News

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]

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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]

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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]

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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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