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By Nasratu Kargbo

7 December 2010. Before cockcrow. Margaret Dumbuya and her husband sneaked out of Port Loko. She clutched their two-month-old daughter and they set off for Freetown. Reason: To save her from family members who believed that the child was an evil spirit and the cause of their hardship. They agreed she needed to be returned to the world beyond - a euphemism for killing her.

By Foday M. Daboh

Let us dispense with comfort and confront reality.

The 2028 election will not be won by nostalgia. It will not be won by entitlement. And it will certainly not be won by assuming that incumbency automatically converts into legitimacy.

If the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) intends to retain power in 2028, it must act now—with urgency, discipline, and strategic honesty. Otherwise, it risks learning a painful lesson that ruling parties across Africa have discovered too late: power expires when renewal disappears.

By Abdul Tejan-Cole

With profound sorrow, I mourn the passing of Berthan Macaulay Jnr, a colossus of our legal landscape, an incomparable mentor, a steadfast colleague, and a cherished friend. His passing on 24th February 2026, coming so swiftly after that of his dear friend, former Acting Chief Justice Valesius Thomas (VVT), feels like the closing of an era. Yet his legacy endures in the jurisprudence he helped shape, in the lives he touched, and in the principles he so faithfully embodied.

By Tanu Jalloh

Communications & Media Scholar |Associate Lecturer, University of Sierra Leone

M.A. Mass Communications (Political Economy) | B.A. (Hons) Media and Journalism (Governance)

February 2026.

By Foday M. Daboh
Public Policy Analyst | Political Economist
M.A. Public Policy | B.A. Political Science & International Relations

By Foday M. Daboh

There are policy mistakes you can reverse with a memo. And then there are mistakes that, once made, become a country’s reputation.

By Foday M. Daboh

The recent statement by the so-called “CSOs Consortium on Public Accountability” calling for the immediate dismissal of Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance, Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura, is a deeply flawed intervention that confuses economic hardship with economic mismanagement, and populist frustration with policy failure.