Africanist Press @africanistpress
We are a platform for high quality, frontline journalism on the African continent. We defend media freedom, expose corruption, and promote democracy in Africa. africanistpress.com Philadelphia, USA Joined March 2014-
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The privatization program in postwar #SierraLeone was supposedly advanced by international financial institutions – the World Bank, IMF, African Development Bank – as a multi-sectoral development strategy aimed at reducing poverty and corruption, and improving economic growth and…
Check out the MCC, DFC Deception and Electricity Corruption in #SierraLeone from #AfricanistPress Podcast Service on Amazon Music. music.amazon.com/podcasts/dfa23… #AmazonMusic
#AfricanistPress Editor to join Brown University’s Watson Institute africanistpress.com/africanist-pre…
In this episode, we discuss how hidden competition between British financed corporations and United States-backed companies for control of non-transparent service-related contracts and corruptly awarded critical infrastructure projects in Sierra Leone have worsened the country's…
In #SierraLeone , civil servants, politicians, law officers, and banking officials have been plotting to criminalize free speech and independent media. @USEmbFreetown @StateDept @LisaJChesney @UKinSierraLeone @FCDOGovUK @USAID
Two years on, the attacks on #AfricanistPress staff, orchestrated by both SLPP and APC politicians and financed by foreign corporations, are still ongoing in #SierraLeone. @USEmbFreetown @UKinSierraLeone @StateDept @LisaJChesney @FCDOGovUK
In this episode, we examine the impacts of non-transparent debt-financing arrangements on #SierraLeone’s democracy and electoral politics. We @highlight the key questions below for our @followers. 1. We ask: why the United States Development Finance Corporation (DFC) approved…
This episode demonstrates how foreign diplomats and SLPP/APC politicians excluded political parties & civil society voices in a bid to protect a two-party hegemony in #SierraLeone. @USEmbFreetown @LisaJChesney @StateDept music.amazon.com/podcasts/dfa23…
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The international community's decision to fund the SLPP/APC's Tripartite Committee does not advance democracy in #SierraLeone, but excludes the majority of political parties contested the June 2023 elections.@USEmbFreetown @StateDept music.amazon.com/podcasts/dfa23…
I'm calling on citizens of the US & #HumanRights organizations to help us hold the govt of #SierraLeone accountable.-Chernoh Bah @africanistpress @StateDept @MCCgov @SecBlinken @ChrisCoons @SenatorRisch @USAID @UNHumanRights
"The United States has a responsibility to investigate the $ that has been used to embolden dictatorship, the $ that has been used to finance an operation that is eroding democratic rights..."-Chernoh Bah @africanistpress #SierraLeone @StateDept @MCCgov @ChrisCoons @SenatorRisch
Oh shit. Council members and tenants just burnished the stage to demand a rent decrease!
Electoral Commission of #SierraLeone awarded two procurements contracts worth over US$10 million to two Freetown companies that did not show technical capacity to supply the requested voter registration technology and software for the country's upcoming elections in June 2023.
#SierraLeone: Evidence shows that finance officials authorized the transfer of over £94,000 to London for President Bio’s visit ahead of the August 10th protest. @USEmbFreetown @UKinSierraLeone @EUinSierraLeone @CiFAR_EU @LisaJChesney
Today, HR/VP @JosepBorrellF joins EP Vice-President @EvaKaili, former President of Costa Rica @Laura_Ch and invited guests at the @Europarl_EN to examine the role of #ElectionObservation in defending democracy. 🔴 #StayTuned and follow live, here on twitter, at 14H CET
73% of women journalists have experienced online violence or death threats. Attacks on journalists are attacks on freedom of expression. Many women journalists face all forms of violence as they deliver facts to the world. #16DaysOfActivism #SayNoStopVAW #OrangeTheWorld
#SierraLeone: Chernoh Bah of #AfricanistPress will discuss the role of #Parliament and Second Term Agenda. Discussion will be live on #Facebook and #YouTube platform of “Then & Now Media.” @EUinSierraLeone @USEmbFreetown @StateDept @LisaJChesney
In the 2018 #SierraLeone presidential elections, Yumkella got 174,014(6.9%) and Sam Sumana got 87,720 (3.5%) In total, both NGC and C4C got 261,734. Four days ago, ECSL has alleged that nearly 260,000 registered voters are reportedly underage and would be potentially deleted.
#SierraLeone: #AfricanistPress editor, Chernoh Bah continues his public lecture on the weaponization of the ACC during presidential elections since 2012. @USEmbFreetown @EUinSierraLeone @LisaJChesney @StateDept @DemocracyIntl
Rewatched the story of Drs. Vivian Thomas, Helen Taussig, and Alfred Blalock - Something the Lord Made. Deeply moved. Again. Taussig went on to fully develop the Harriet Lane pediatric clinic. @JohnsHopkinsSPH @JohnsHopkinsSPH @HopkinsMedicine @africanistpress
I will be 60 in two weeks. That’s why I was thrilled when a new PhD student told me today that we hadn’t met bc I was on maternity leave last semester (actually med leave). I thought, honey, I’m almost 20 yrs past that, but YOU are my new fave student.💜
#AfricanistPress editor, Chernoh Bah will be at the @IMFNews and @WorldBank annual meetings in Washington DC this October. We’ll be running a special series on this year’s annual meetings!!
Today there was zero internet on campus. All day. I taught old school with a chalkboard. I loved it and I’m going back to that.
It’s semester week 2 … how y’all doing? Me?
#SierraLeone: Lawyer Lansana Dumbuya says police have denied detained opposition politicians and supporters access to family and lawyers since their arrests before and during August 10th protests. @USEmbFreetown @UKinSierraLeone @EUinSierraLeone
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