Sierra Leone’s education system is in the throes of a crisis. Once lauded for its bold promise, it now stands accused of perpetrating radical exclusion. Over 40,000 pupils across 620 schools have been barred from taking the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) due to missing Continuous Assessment Scores (CASs). This amounts to nearly a third of all registered candidates; …
Since seizing power in a September 2022 coup, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, Burkina Faso’s 37-year-old transitional president,…
In April 2025, a court in Abidjan struck Tidjane Thiam, a leading opposition figure, from Côte…
The narrativisation of our individual and collective pasts—what scholars often term history—has rarely prioritised problematising those…
Established in 2002 to root out the corruption strangling our nation, Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC)…
The Trump administration has just announced the cancellation of a $17 million USAID-sponsored project that was…
International development and aid flows are in unprecedented turmoil. The US Trump administration issued a stop-work…
The numbers are in, and they are searing. The World Meteorological Organisation, alongside NASA, the UK…
One hundred days have passed since the tragic and mysterious death of Victor Effion Johannes Onie-Williams,…
In the early 2000s, as Sierra Leone emerged from a devastating civil war, the country was…
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