$500.000 in financial support for the presidential and parliamentary elections set for 24 June has been approved by Economic Community of West African States Commission

The case of Zainab Sheriff, a young female activist sentenced to four years and two months on counts of 'incitement and use of threatening language', contrary to national law, has stirred debate as she reportedly only expressed views about electoral fraud

A growing number of corpses are being found in public spaces; Freetown started burials for sanitary and humanitarian reasons and asked government to investigate on the use of drugs as cause of death, but the matter was solved issuing 'removing' policies

Citizens expressed dismay following the release of 2024 Auditor General Report, which shows that one of the key institutions they anticipated could be implicated in the embezzlement of public funds, the Office of the President, was not in the document