Voter re-registration ongoing in Kono

By Zainab Kanu

The Western Area Commissioner for the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Miss Maitta French, has confirmed that voter re-registration was ongoing in Kono because the data of some people were missing.

She also stated that they have displayed in all registration centres the list of those whose data have gone missing, [...]

NEC disrespects Journalists and political parties

By John Sesay

The National Electoral Commission (NEC) yesterday displayed the highest form of disrespect for Journalists, political party members and civil society organisations when a press conference that should have taken place at ten o’ clock in the morning was postponed to two o’ clock in the afternoon and again postponed to [...]

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By Bampia Bundu

The Sierra Leone Gullah Kinship Association on Wednesday, June 6 presented a peace communiqué to the National Electoral Commission (NEC) at the Commission’s Tower Hill headquarters in Freetown.

Addressing the gathering the Coordinator of the association, Mr. Densil Collier, commended NEC for their outstanding job for peacefully and fairly conducting [...]

Political parties assured of transparent voter registration matching

By Bampia Bundu

The eighteen man delegation comprising the eight active political parties, civil society, UNIPSIL, UNDP, and the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC), on Tuesday, May22, left the shores of Sierra Leone to observe the de-duplication matching process of the biometric voter registration process in Brussels, Belgium.

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18 to monitor biometric matching in Belgium

NEC boss, Dr. Christiana Thorpe

By Elklass I.L. Sannoh

The Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairperson of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Dr. Christian A. M. Thorpe has said on Friday, May 11 that the de-duplication analysis of the biometric matching and printing of the voter identity cards has been set to take place in [...]

NEW/IRN commends NEC

By Zainab Kanu

The National Elections Watch (NEW), in collaboration with the Independent Radio Network (IRN), has ended its Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) observation with commendation for NEC.

At a press conference held at the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) Headquarters in Freetown yesterday, the National Coordinator of IRN, Mr. Ransford Wright [...]

‘Christiana Thorpe has criminal intent’ – SLPP Charges

Christiana Thorpe

Christiana Thorpe

The National Chairman of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), Mr. John Oponjo Benjamin, has said that the Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Dr .Christina Thorpe, has criminal intent to rig the elections on November 17 this year.

Addressing newsmen at the party’s headquarters in Freetown [...]

Christiana Thorpe and the 2012 elections

John Baimba Sesay

By John Pa Baimba Sesay

The debate on the Aljazeera documentary should not be allowed to divert the attention of this Government from its determination to ensure that the 2012 elections are won. I have made my position clear that inasmuch as it was good they (Aljazeera) tried to help in the fight against [...]