There has been a major boost for the media in Sierra Leone with President Julius Maada Bio promising the imminent repeal of the criminal libel and sedition laws and the creation of a fund to support journalists.
"Part Five of Sierra Leone's Public Order Act criminalises any publication that is deemed defamatory or seditious and has been used as a regime to unduly target and imprison media practitioners and silence dissident views," President Bio conceded while interacting with journalists during his maiden media cocktail meeting on December 5, 2018 in the capital, Freetown.
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