In a small, sunbaked community where tradition often speaks louder than a girl’s dreams, a teenage girl, Kadijatu Lamarana Shunem Barrie, made an impossible choice: her books over her blood, her father over her future and her voice over a wedding she never wanted.
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Following the conclusion on 20th April 2026 of the Third Joint Assessment Mission of the International Moral Guarantors on the implementation of the Agreement for National Unity and the recommendations of the Tripartite Committee’s Report, the Independent Commission for Peace and National Cohesion has taken note of reports circulating on social media and in public discourse regarding statements allegedly made by senior political figures in recent days, regarding these reports with the utmost seriousness.
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The African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council (AU-ECOSOCC), in partnership with Reform Initiatives, the ECOSOCC Sierra Leone National Chapter, and the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI), has convened a high level multi-stakeholder dialogue at the Sierra Palms Hotel in Lumley, Freetown, under the theme: African Charter on Democracy, Elections and Governance (ACDEG).
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His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has told Africa’s youth that the continent’s leaders owe them institutions that work, economies that include them, and a continent that refuses to waste them, not just speeches.
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Sierra Leone marked its 65th Independence Day with a stirring call for renewal, as Dr. Ibrahim Bangura, Leader of the DIB Movement and flagbearer aspirant of the All People’s Congress (APC), urged citizens to “heal, unite, and build” a nation that lives up to the promise of April 27, 1961.
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