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Sierra Leone’s Voter Registration Data discredit the Mid-term Census Data – implications for the coming Presidential election

Yusuf Bangura (Nyon, Switzerland) : Sierra Leone Telegraph : 18 April 2023 : Statistics Sierra Leone carried out a mid-term population and housing census in December 2021. The declared purpose of the census was to review the country’s development status since the previous census of 2015 and update the base maps and enumeration [Read More]

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ECOWAS and African Union delegation in Sierra Leone on pre-election fact-finding mission amid rising political tension

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2023: On Wednesday, President Bio received a delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union (AU), as concerns grow over rising political tension and pre-election violence.  Presidential and general elections are due on 24th June 2023. Leader of the [Read More]

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Former president Koroma calls on opposition leaders in Nigeria’s presidential elections to take their concerns to the courts – not the streets

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 March 2023: Head of the Economic Community of West African States Elections Observer Mission (ECOWASEOM) to Nigeria – former Sierra Leonean President Ernest Bai Koroma, and the head of the African Union Elections Observer Mission (AUEOM), former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, yesterday held [Read More]

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APC Bola Tinubu declared winner of Nigeria’s Presidential election amid angry protest by opposition

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2023: Bola Tinubu – the presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) party has been declared the winner of Nigeria’s closest presidential election since the country’s return to democracy in 1999, after decades of military interegnum. Tinubu won 8.8 million votes against the People’s [Read More]