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The Commissioner of the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Francis Ben Kaifala Esq., has on 4th May 2021, responded to concerns raised by political parties related to the fight against corruption in Sierra Leone. The event, which took place at the Cathedral Hall, 3 Gloucester Street, Freetown, was organised by the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in collaboration with the ACC. The engagement is a follow-up meeting with the ACC on emerging issues relating to corruption and public accountability from the initial rounds of the Inter-party...

April 15, 2021 * The Publicity Secretary of the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC), Sidi Yahya Tunis and the National Grand Coalition (NGC) party Chairman, Dr. Denis Bright have showered commendable praise on the Executive Director of Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA), Ibrahim Sannoh and the Director General of the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA), Mohamed Massaquoi for their innovative leadership to digitalise their institutions. Their commendations came in the wake of the CRVS and Identify Management Stakeholders’ Meeting held on Tuesday, 13th April 2021 at th...

As the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) updated the public that the High Court of Sierra Leone presided over by Hon. Justice A.T. Ganda on 25 February convicted Bockarie Sheku Mattia, a supervisor on contract with Statistics Sierra Leone’s Bo office on one count of soliciting an advantage of one hundred thousand leones, which is less than ten US dollars, Dr. Denis Bright has told Beyond Borders that corruption does not only belong to yesterday. The convicted Mattia was ordered to pay a fine of Fifty Million Leones (Le: 50,000,000), within a period of one month, effective the date of the jud...

Denis Bright Early returns from the special senate vote in Georgia on 5 January 2021 do suggest that Vice President Kamala Harris may have the casting vote in a deadlocked US Senate. The result is so close for the second contested spot in Georgia that NBC News has not called the final seat in race between John Ossoff (Democrat) who is narrowly in the lead against David Perdue (Republican incumbent) by less than 18,000 votes across a divided Georgia. Having control of the Presidency and the Congress is essential for Joe Biden to implement the national mandate he received on 5 November 2020. T...

Denis Bright The arrival of the New Year is an appropriate time to check the prospects for greater stability across the Middle East Region. The strength of the Morrison Government’s strategic ties with Israel adds an added layer to Middle East politics with the opening of Australia’s Defence and Trade Office at 20 King George Street, Jerusalem. New layers have been added to strategic ties between the US and Israel since President Trump lost office on 3 November 2020. The evolving game plan seems to offer a shared hegemony between Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia over the Middle East Region...