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  • A woman and child walk past barbed wire in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Credit: Eduardo Fonseca Arraes.
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    How Sierra Leone abolished the death penalty and what others could learn

    By Makmid Kamara & Sabrina Mahtani
    November 2, 2021
    How decades of tenacious advocacy, political will and a smart legal strategy finally ended capital punishment. On 23 July 2021, Sierra Leone made history ...
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    How can countries continue to combat malaria during a pandemic?

    By Ciku Kimeria
    November 11, 2020
    With medical disruptions due to COVID-19 likely to kill more people in Africa than the disease itself, two countries provide interesting lessons. With COVID-19 ...
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    We must continue to scale up malaria programmes, despite COVID-19

    By Alpha T. Wurie
    August 4, 2020
    Malaria deaths could double if the fight against coronavirus detracts from anti-malaria efforts, warns Sierra Leone’s Health Minister Alpha T. Wurie.  In 2014, Sierra ...
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    They survived Ebola. Now they want to teach others to survive COVID-19. 

    By Osman Benk Sankoh
    July 8, 2020
    Ebola survivors across West Africa could be a very useful knowledge resource to governments in their pandemic response strategies. Will they take the opportunity?  ...
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    Freetown just implemented a new tax system that could quintuple revenue

    By Wilson Prichard, Abou Bakarr Kamara & Niccoló Meriggi
    May 21, 2020
    Here’s how it works. In the next few weeks, residents of Freetown are expecting to receive new property tax bills as part of a ...
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    Sierra Leone’s ban of pregnant school girls outlawed in landmark ruling

    By Sabrina Mahtani
    January 27, 2020
    The ECOWAS court ruling could have important implications for Sierra Leone, external partners and other countries with similar bans. Last month, in a milestone ...
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  • Sierra Leone sexual violence
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    Sierra Leone declared a state of emergency over sexual violence

    By Laura S. Martin & Simeon Koroma
    January 15, 2020
    Did it help? In February 2019, President Julius Maada Bio declared a State of Emergency over sexual and gender-based violence. He did this amid ...
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    Sierra Leone: How the SLPP took power. And then took some more.

    By Luisa Enria & Jamie Hitchen
    October 28, 2019
    Last year, the Sierra Leone People’s Party won the presidency but not parliament. Power was divided, but not for long. In Sierra Leone today, ...
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  • Sierra Leone politics: On the streets of the capital Freetown, Sierra Leone. Credit: Eduardo Fonseca Arraes.
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    Sierra Leone: The new government’s tense struggle for control a year on

    By Kars de Bruijne
    April 18, 2019
    The transfer of power from the APC to ruling SLPP has brought with it protests, walkouts, boycotts and low-level violence. A year since President ...
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    By Africa Insiders
    February 12, 2019
    African Arguments is and always will be freely-accessible to everyone. But we also have a separate spin-off product called the Insiders Newsletter. It consists of weekly emails with additional ...
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