Recent arguments suggesting that the Electoral Commission should not be subject to parliamentary oversight, based on the 1991 Constitution, raise important questions about how we understand democracy—not just as it was designed, but as it must evolve.
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Freetown, 27th April 2026- Adama Koroma, 78, has watched 65 Independence Days come and go from the same doorway in the East End of Freetown. She was a schoolgirl in 1961 when the Union Jack came down at Brookfields Playground and Sir Milton Margai a quiet doctor who became a founding father accepted the instruments of sovereignty from the Duke of Kent. She remembers her mother weeping. Not from grief. From joy.
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Black Johnson Village, Western Area Rural District, 23rd April, 2026- Sierra Leone has launched construction of its first industrial fishing port, a project valued at US$55 million, funded through a grant from the Government of China.
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Freetown, 22nd April, 2026- Ahead of the signing of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Pandemic Agreement, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) has joined African civil society groups in demanding binding equity provisions to guarantee enforceable benefit-sharing during pandemics.
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Sierra Leone has taken another bold step toward unlocking its offshore petroleum potential, signing a Petroleum Licence Agreement (PLA) with Nigerian-based Marginal Energy Limited. The deal, announced at the Invest in African Energy Conference in Paris, grants the company exclusive rights to explore, develop, and produce hydrocarbons across five offshore blocks covering 6,800 square kilometres.
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