Feature

By Kemo Cham

The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) has returned for phase II of its media development project in Sierra Leone.

IWPR, an independent not-for profit organisation, works with media and civil society to promote positive change in countries in transition, especially those in conflict or crisis. In 2014, it ran a one year long project in the country which saw journalists trained on freedom of information legislation and access to government information.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

Civil society organizations have welcomed the reappointment of the head of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara with caution.

News of the extension of the term of the ACC boss was revealed over the weekend in a statement from the anti-graft agency.

“President Ernest Bai Koroma has reappointed Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara to serve another five-year term as Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC),” reads part of the statement sent to Politico.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

The public health emergency declared to stem the spread of the Ebola virus has taken a political dimension, amidst indication from the presidency to maintain the increasingly controversial status quo.

By Ibrahim Sheriff, Houston, Texas, USA

I am inclined to weigh in on the Sierra Leone People’s Party’s (SLPP) internal problems revolving on social media and other Sierra Leonean media and social spaces. Let me weigh in NOT as an operative of an independent radio station that I found and direct, and which is called Sherix Webradio, but as a Sierra Leonean who has the God-given right to freely participate in the affairs of the country.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

By Allieu Sahid Tunkara

Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital is well known for its sprawling and congested slums which have become an eyesore to almost the entire citizenry of the country as disease outbreaks usually claim dozens of lives in such settlements. The clustered bungalows in these sprawling slums represent the symbol of leadership failure, coming out of the direct consequence of neglect by successive central and local government authorities.

By Joseph Lamin Kamara

“BE IT ENACTED by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the House of Representatives in this present Parliament assembled . . ,” the 1965 Public Archives Office (PAO) Act of Sierra Leone, enacted when Sir Henry Josiah Lightfoot Boston was Governor-General of Sierra Leone, reads.