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Patricia Sia Ngevao 1 day ago A man shovels sand into bags on Mahera beach. Image by Patricia [...]

A Nation Cannot Rise When Its Leadership Fails the Test of Principle By Sorie Ibrahim Koroma, ABA [...]

Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court has struck out a motion by the Attorney General and Minister of Justice seeking to dismiss the constitutional [...]

How Europe’s most wanted cocaine trafficker turned Sierra Leone into the world’s first true narco state View image in fullscreen Drawing on dozens of interviews with intelligence and police officers [...]

*JFK, Contempt of Court, and the Uneasy Boundary Between Advocacy and Authority* By Oumar Farouk Sesay The confrontation between Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice, [...]

⚖️ SIERRA LEONE JUDICIARY UNDER SCRUTINY! 🇸🇱 FORMER ATTORNEY GENERAL CHARLES FRANCIS MARGAI CRITICIZES HANDLING OF JFK MATTER Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice Charles Francis Margai has reportedly [...]

APC Counsel and former Justice Minister Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara has tendered an apology that has been accepted by the Chief Justice, resulting in the dismissal of his contempt case. [...]

The Supreme Court of Sierra Leone resumes today, Tuesday 13th October 2026, the landmark hearing into the controversial Constitution [...]

By Oumar Farouk Sesay Arguably, the politics of revenge—colloquially captured in Sierra Leonean parlance as “you do me, ah [...]

By Oumar Farouk Sesay When the Sierra Leone Law School was established in the late 1980s, amid opposition from some members [...]

CHIEF JUSTICE KAMANDA’S DECISION ON JFK: IF NOT HANDLED PROPERLY, IT COULD DEEPEN POLITICAL TENSIONS AND THREATEN SIERRA LEONE’S NATIONAL STABILITY By Haroun Olu Zubairu The detention of Joseph Fitzgerald [...]

JFK’s Detention, Judicial Independence and Sierra Leone’s Constitutional Crossroads By Gibril Bangura Sierra Leone is facing a defining constitutional test. The detention of Hon. Joseph [...]

By Kabs Kanu Chief Justice Judge Komba Kamanda today ordered the arrest of former Attorney General and Minister of Justice , Lawyer Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara ( JFK) for the tense [...]

Another big political drama broke out in Freetown yesterday , this time between the Supreme Court and the lead attorney of the opposition All People’s Congress ( APC ) , [...]

WHEN DEVELOPMENT FINANCE BECOMES LEVERAGE* By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Friday, 2 October 2026 The European Union’s decision to withhold Sierra Leone’s 2026 budget support has suddenly acquired a far more [...]

Guest Writer THE CONSTITUTION MUST NOT BE A CASUALTY OF POLITICAL CONVENIENCE By Sayoh Kamara (077622501) President Julius Maada Bio’s decision to withhold assent to the controversial Constitutional Amendment Bill [...]

By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Friday, 2 October 2026 A dispute over Musa Tarawally’s SLPP membership has opened a larger question: if he was not constitutionally [...]

By Emmanuel Swarray Today, Sierra Leone will watch. Not merely because Parliament, the Executive and political parties have a profound interest [...]

THE CONSTITUTION AT THE BAR By Mahmud Tim Kargbo Tuesday, 6 October 2026 Sierra Leone’s constitutional amendment dispute has reached the Supreme Court, with a basic question at its centre: did Parliament use [...]

The Lawyers’ Society of Sierra Leone has called on the Government to withdraw statutory instruments relating to the [...]

APC MUST DO THE RIGHT THINGS TO BE ABLE TO BEAT SLPP AND RETURN TO POWER IN 2028 By Kabs Kanu A lesson many political parties do not learn is [...]

BY Oumar Farouk Sesay In 2002, shortly after Sierra Leone emerged from a devastating civil [...]

By: Jamil Sahid Fofanah Introduction The judiciary’s public notice that the Supreme Court will hear all matters relating to the [...]

By Oumar Farouk Sesay Sierra Leone has never lacked brilliant people. Our deeper failure has been our inability to build institutions that can multiply [...]

By Cornelius Oguntola Melvin Deveaux It’s Monday, October 5th, 2026. I find myself deeply unsettled by a reality that feels [...]

AMSTERDAM, Oct 1 (Reuters) – The European Commission has suspended its financial aid to ​Sierra Leone over the country’s refusal to arrest and hand ‌over European cocaine kingpin Jos Leijdekkers, [...]