Tag: democracy
What I’ve learned about Sierra Leone‘s Startup Democracy since 2018: The end of the elections ...
Long before the 2018 March Elections I believed we needed a change of government. Sierra Leone had strayed from the path to progress. Beyond a desire for my homeland to be a ...Sierra Leone: President Bio’s sacking of civil servants with tenure to appoint SLPP cronies is ...
Press Statement – for immediate Release Civil Society is concerned over the dismissal of Civil and Public Servants in disregard of due processes of the law Freetown, SL 26.06.2018: The Standing Together ...Sierra Leone says rumors of Koroma 3rd term are false, but will review 1991 consitution
The Office of the President of Sierra Leone has today released a statement that the rumors that Mr. Koroma who was re-elected for a second term in November 2012 will seek a ...Ghana’s President John Mahama re-elected with 50.7 percent of votes
In his first statement just hours after being declared winner of Ghana’s national elections, President John Dramani Mahama thanked the people for their confidence in him. “Ghana is the winner,” he says. ...BREAKING NEWS: Sierra Leone’s President Ernest Bai Koroma re-elected with 58% of votes
Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission has just announced that the President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma has been re-elected for a second term in office. Just under a week ago Sierra Leoneans went ...Sierra Leone’s electoral commission responds to rumors and voter fraud allegations
By Alpha B Kamara in Freetown The chairperson of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Dr. Christiana Thorpe, says the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) and the Peoples Movement Democratic Change (PMDC) should ...Sierra Leone elections 2012 in Pictures
Sierra Leoneans stood in long queues on November 17th to choose presidential, parliamentary, and local council candidates to govern the nation for the next 5 years. The National Electoral Commission had 9,493 ...Facebook roundup Diaspora Sierra Leoneans: They cant vote but they want peaceful elections
While many Sierra Leoneans in the diaspora have used Facebook to express their political views, a day before the elections several shared messages calling for a peaceful elections. With no absentee voting ...Inaction on Gender Bill means less women in parliament after Sierra Leone’s elections
Sierra Leone’s 30 percent women’s movement has failed. The Gender Equality Bill did not make it to parliament before the last session closed. The Bill would have mandated that all political parties ...Liberia’s Leymah Gbowee from peace champion to “disgrace to womanhood”
Wherever Lehmah Gbowee is right now she is probably feeling very alone. She resigned her post as Liberia’s Peace and Reconciliation Commissioner last week and said that President Johnson Sirleaf is nepotistic and ...
