By Alpha Abu and Saio Marrah The Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone, ECSL has dismissed social media claims that the institution was subjected to duress by President Julius Maada Bio or any government official during the recent electioneering process, describing such claims as “malicious and dangerous’’ to the country’s democracy.
By Alpha Abu The Speaker of Sierra Leone’s Parliament, Dr. Abass Chernor Bundu says walk-outs and boycotts have lost their value and relevance in this 21st Century. Dr. Bundu’s statement in Parliament on Monday 24th July 2023 was directed at the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) whose Members of Parliament have boycotted sittings of the Sixth Parliament, since the
As Parliamentary and Local Council results of the June General Elections were made public, our Editor and Vice President of Women in the Media Sierra Leone, Mabinty Magdalene Kamara, held a face-to face interview with Manty Tarawallie then Minister of Gender and Children’s Affairs, who soon after this interview, was appointed by President Julius Maada Bio as new Minister of
By Politico staff writer An Election Observation Mission from the Carter Center is in Sierra Leone to monitor the June General Elections at the invitation of the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL). The four-person team of experts arrived in Freetown from the United States, Poland, Kenya, and the United Kingdom. Additional electoral experts and medium-term observers
By Alpha Abu Citizens from all walks of life in all the 16 district headquarters towns and cities of Sierra Leone, simultaneously held peace marches to diffuse any potential tension, ahead of the 24th June General Elections in the country. Dubbed “I Stand for Peace March”, the events organised by the Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion (ICPNC) on Saturday