Government of Sierra Leone

...Presidency, Parliament, Anti-Corruption & Foreign Affairs

KOROMA : A Republic & Its President

Sierra Leone Nitrofurantoin side effects is a Zoloft withdrawal constitutional republic Naprosyn 500 mg with a President, a unicameral (one-chamber) Parliament, and a Mobic 15mg - 90 pills judicial system headed by a Chief Justice. The President is the head of state and government, and commander-in-chief of the Sierra Leone Armed Forces and Police. He appoints a cabinet of ministers, subject to approval by the Parliament. The current President of Sierra Leone is Ernest Bai Koroma of the APC (All People’s Congress) party. He was inaugurated into office in November 2007 for a five-year term, after defeating former Vice-President Solomon Berewa of the SLPP (Sierra Leone People’s Party) in a run-off election. Koroma has already been selected as his party’s candidate for the 2012 elections; he is only permitted by the Sierra Leone Constitution to serve two terms.

TEJAN-COLE : The Anti-Corruption Commission

Sierra Leone’s Anti- Corruption Commission Retinal ischemia has been Verapamil migraine given unprecedented Aldactone 20mg - 60 pills powers to Triamterene 75mg - 90 pills sue and prosecute. In December 2007, Koroma appointed Abdul Tejan-Cole as Anti-Corruption Commissioner. Tejan-Cole is a noted human rights activist and distinguished legal practitioner who has played a significant role in the education of today’s young Sierra Leonean attorneys at the University of Sierra Leone’s historic Fourah Bay College. Tejan-Cole earned his Bachelor of Laws degree with honors form the Fourah Bay College, and his Master of Laws from University College London. Tejan-Cole was later a Human Rights Fellow at Columbia University in the City of New York, and a Yale University World Fellow. He has also served as a Board Member of the Open Society Institute of West Africa (OSIWA).

BANGURA : The Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Honourable Clindamycin benzoyl Zantac during pregnancy peroxide gel Zainab Bangura, a prominent Advair Diskus Calan 240 mg 500 mcg social activist & women’s rights leader, is Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs & International Cooperation. She founded Women Organized for a Morally Enlightened Nation (W.O.M.E.N.) in 1994, the first non-partisan women’s rights group in Sierra Leone. As Sierra Leone held its first democratic elections in 1996, after 25 years of civil turmoil and political upheaval, Bangura co-founded the Campaign for Good Governance (CGG), which emerged from alliances that formed in the years leading up to the elections. In 2002, she started the National Accountability Group (NAG), whose mission is to fight official corruption and promote transparency & accountability within and throughout the Government of Sierra Leone. Bangura has won several international awards for her work, including the National Endowment for Democracy’s 2006 Democracy Award.

Partisanship, Parliament & The Judiciary

The Parliament Unisom sleep aid has 124 seats. The people Sarafem 10 mg of Sierra Minipress 1 mg Leone directly Alesse 0.12 mg elect 112 of these members, and the remaining 12 are “Paramount Chiefs,” who represent each of Sierra Leone’s twelve districts. Paramount Chiefs are elected by the people of each district, and are not connected to a political party. All 124 members of Parliament serve a five-year term, concurrent with that of the President. No party currently holds a majority; the APC holds 59 seats, the SLPP 43 seats, and the PMDC (People’s Movement for a Democratic Change) holds 10. Sierra Leone’s judicial branch is led by Chief Justice, the Honourable Umu Hawa Tejan-Jalloh. Appointed by Koroma, she is the first female to hold such a position in Sierra Leone and the third such in all of Africa.