Sierra Leone women yet again have another reason to eulogise the President of Sierra Leone, His Excellency Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma. This time over his act to ensure that a critical obstacle to equality of women was removed from the countrys citizenship laws. Parliament has yesterday July 5th 2017 passed into Law the bill sent to them by Executive arm which now grants all Sierra Leone women the right to give citizenship to their children no matter in which country the child is born. Prior to yesterday, any child born of a Sierra Leone woman outside of the country could not get Sierra Leone citizenship unless the father was also a Sierra Leonean. This had caused many Sierra Leone women...
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