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May 2018

Various civil societies and opposition parties have expressed dismay over the physical and verbal attack on Freetown’s elected Mayor, Madam Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, by hooligans of the ruling Sierra Leone people’s party (SLPP). Many Civil Societies

One of the Sierra Leonean sensitive Disk Jockeys, DJ Clef who met his sudden death through the hands of wicked ritualists has clocked three years today in the grave. Speaking to Sierra Express Media, an investigative

The Director of Social Protection Secretariat at the National Commission for Social Action (NACSA), Idriss Turay has assured survivors of the August 14th 2017 mudslide that the institution is very much passionate about their welfare. Mr.

After a year of research involving 594 communities, 80 wards and 40 chiefdoms from all 14 districts in Sierra Leone Strengthening Accountability, Building Inclusion (SABI) has on May 24th 2018 launched the Citizen Perception Survey

Local council election candidates for the ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) and the main opposition, All Peoples Congress (APC), Mohamed Amara Koroma and Mohamed Lamah Bah, respectively, have disclosed that they will utilize the

When  I first heard it, I did not believe. I did not want to believe that we have sunk so low in a few months to the point we will beat a whole Mayor of

IN SIERRA LEONE - VIOLENT ATTACKS AND THUGGERY HAVE BECOME THE TOOLS TO SILENCE  DEMOCRACY AND FAIR PLAY    The attack yesterday against the Mayor of Freetown reportedly by thugs of the seating government in Sierra Leone 

Freetown May 24th, 2018: The attention of the National Secretariat of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has been drawn to an incident on 23rd day of May 2018 in which it is alleged that

The Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) condemns the rising spate of violence against women in politics in Sierra Leone, before and after the general elections. We view such violence against women in politics

Cecilia Mattia, a fearless, experienced civil society activist, and a woman of integrity that works for the Sierra Leone Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (SLEITI) has chosen to uphold transparency and integrity (virtues worth emulating across

Having woefully failed in their several attempts to make this medium become one of the bootlickers of the current government, Sierra Express Media, one of Sierra Leone’s isolated media voices, if not the only voice

Over 40,000 students preparing to take the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) have suffered in long queues since last week to purchase scratch cards from the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank (SLCB) and the

It was like a judgment day among senior and junior staff of Youyi Building when His Excellency President Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio paid an unannounced visit to know if Government workers going for duty

The Deputy Chairman of the Western Rural Urban District for the All Peoples Congress (APC), Mohamed Kamara commonly call Med Kay has expressed strong determination to support the APC Members of Parliament ahead of the

State House, Freetown, Sierra Leone -His Excellency President Bio has always warned in his public speeches that this Government is not going to be business-as-usual politics and on Wednesday, 23rd May, he demonstrated that with