As Sierra Leone’s politics oscillates between the SLPP and APC, it sometimes takes a lot of effort, reflection and in most cases ...

A study, conducted by the Brennan Center for Justice found that most local election officials fear for their colleagues’ ...

A former military coup leader has won the first round of Sierra Leone's presidential election. Julius Maada Bio secured 43.3% of the vote, short of the 55% he needed to avoid a second round run-off.

Sierra Leone became the first country in the world to use blockchain technology to verify votes in its most recent election. Swiss-based company Agora logged and verified each paper ballot ...

Sierra Leone's opposition candidate, Julius Maada Bio, has rushed to take his presidential oath in a hotel after winning the run-off election. Mr Maada Bio is a former military ruler who briefly ...

secured 50.80 percent of the nearly 1.94 million votes certified so far from Saturday’s election - a lead of about 30,000 votes over Julius Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP ...

Dr David Moinina  Sengeh, has set a precedent by boarding the local bus in Freetown, popularly called “ Waka Fine”, together ...

Top media practitioners, political and business leaders, diplomats, scholars, activists and other stakeholders will, on ...

It is encouraging to learn that President Julius Maada Bio and his Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) government are ...

Sierra Leone emerged from a brutal civil war in 2002 and has remained largely peaceful since then. However, flare-ups occur around election time, and memories of a conflict in which more than ...

Bio, of the Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP), narrowly beat ... Turnout has ranged between 76 and 87 percent over the past three elections. Voters will also elect members of parliament and ...

Sierra Leone made significant progress in 2002. On January 18, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah declared that the decade-long civil war had ended, and on March 1, he lifted the four-year state of ...