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Month: February 2019

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Sierra Leone Parliament Approves State of Public Emergency on Rape

24/02/2019 CEN

Yesterday, Friday 22nd February 2019, the Parliament of Sierra Leone debated and approved with some dissenting voices, a presidential proclamation on the commission of rape against women, girls and babies [Read more]

Critique Column

Grave Concerns over Declaration of State Of Emergency on Rape and Sexual Violence

24/02/2019 CEN

The Declaration of a State of Emergency by H.E. Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio in an attempt to seemingly address the increasing spate of the incidence of rape, has raised [Read more]

Critique Column

When Political Correctness Legislates For Intolerance, It Only Organises Hatred

23/02/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

  There has been a flood of condemnation following the visit of President Bio and his entourage to The Gambia last week.  It is obvious that his visit, among other [Read more]

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Global Citizenship: When Life Rewards Brave Goodbyes With A New Hello.

20/02/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

Mikael Gorbachev has always been credited as the “father of Perestroika” in the USSR. One of the aims of this process was to bring the USSR out of its crisis [Read more]

Critique Column

National Youth Service Partners with UNFA to Train Corps on Sexual Reproduction

14/02/2019 Elkass Sannoh

With support from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the National Youth Service (NYS) yesterday trained over fifty corp members on sexual reproductive health and rights and the demographic dividend [Read more]

Critique Column

Sierra Leone: Don’t Lose Your Temper: Nobody Wants It.

12/02/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

There is an insidious trend of behaviour that is creeping on to our public life, and this is evidently so on our media platforms today. It has become increasingly common [Read more]

Critique Column

The Betrayal Of Trust Carries A Heavy Taboo.

03/02/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter (M. L. King). Some political scribes may have already started writing the political obituary of [Read more]

Critique Column

When Strife of Interests Masquerade As a Contest of Principles.

02/02/2019 Abdulai Mansaray

The last general election in Sierra Leone was one of the most memorable ones in recent memory. This was largely thanks to a lot of precedents set, following the outcome [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]

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]

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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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