The manifestos that don’t manifest: Interrogating commitment to gender and climate change
Few weeks to the June elections, the two leading political parties for the June 24 elections, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) and the All People’s Congress (APC) have finally published their long-awaited manifestos. While this is welcoming news, the documents ) fall short of the detail and rigour expected of a national political party […]
“Caring” leaders do not increase data prices in the middle of an economic crisis
The past week or so has seen a flurry of activity in the motherland: the announcement by the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone to conduct the 2023 national elections under a Proportional Representation (PR) system; the increase in fuel price; and the government’s scattergun approach to the floor price for telecommunication data services. These are […]