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By Mabinty M. Kamara

Days after the release of the controversial provisional result of the 2021 Mid-Term Housing and Population Census, the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) has in a letter requested for the provisional population figures per district and the provisional population figures per council/localities for action.

This according to the letter addressed to the Statistician-General of Statistics Sierra Leone on the 2^nd of June, 2022 is to help the commission in the review of electoral boundaries.

Tunisian president has according to a report by Television Station France 24  sacked 57 judges on Wednesday, accusing them of corruption and protecting terrorists in a purge of the judiciary that comes as he seeks to remake the political system after consolidating one-man rule.

In a televised address President Kais Saied said he had “given opportunity after opportunity and warning after warning to the judiciary to purify itself”. Hours later the official gazette published a decree announcing the dismissals.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The provisional result of the just-concluded midterm census shows that the population of Sierra Leone increased by four hundred and forty-nine thousand, five hundred twenty-eight (449,528) 6 percent more, from the last data recorded in 2015.

By Nasratu Kargbo

On the final day of the debate on President Bio’s recent speech to open this session of parliament, opposition MPs attacked the Proportional Representation system because, according to them, it makes political parties more powerful than the people. They argued that the PR system “does not give the citizens the opportunity to choose their parliamentary representatives directly”.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The Parliamentary Committee on Internal Affairs oversight has engaged the Assistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) East and its personnel, at the police headquarters Eastern Region. The aim of the engagement was to analyze their functions and give advice accordingly, where necessary.

By Politico staff writer
The Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Mines and Mineral Resources, in the Parliament of Sierra Leone, Saa Emerson Lamina, who also doubles as the leader of the Coalition 4 Change (C4C) in Parliament, has urged miners to act diligently in their mining activities together with all the mines and minerals laws of the country.

He said, if they act with due diligence in their mining activities, the government would improve on the already created enabling environment for them.

By Abass Jalloh

The 2021 Open Budget Survey (OBS) Report launched by Budget Advocacy Network (BAN), indicated that most of Sierra Leone’s government budget reports were not timely published for public access. This was said to have covered the period 2012 to 2021.

The focus of the survey was Pre-Budget Statement, Executive’s Budget Proposal, Enacted Budget, Citizens Budget, In-Year Reports, Mid-Year Review, Year-End Report, and Audit Report.