Category: Features

From Horror to Healing: Why Sierra Leone Needs Remembrance Day

Freetown, 1st December 2025- Memorialization is a form of symbolic reparation that honours the memory of those lost in a post conflict society and it acts as a reminder of the past.  After the end of the Civil War in Sierra Leone, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission acknowledged the need for symbolic reparations and recommended the holding of commemoration ceremonies, symbolic reburials of those lives lost in the war by traditional and religious leaders, citing that symbolic reparations provide public acknowledgement.

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐚 𝐋𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐜 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐟𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐬: Why Lectures and Festivals About Loving the Country Will Never Replace the Feeling That the Country Loves You Back

By: Joel Abdulai Kallon Freetown, 24th November 2025- Sierra Leone’s renewed civic education push...

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Debt Olympics: Sierra Leone Aims for Gold

Freetown, 17th November 2025 — If debt were a sport, Sierra Leone would be sprinting toward the gold medal, not in repayment, mind you, but in the Olympic discipline of fiscal gymnastics. According to the latest World Bank–IMF Debt Sustainability Analysis, the country is now officially at high risk of debt distress. Translation:  the national wallet is so thin, it’s practically translucent (you can see through it).

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