Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai

A socio-legal scholar teaching law at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone. Published in governance, human rights, international law, public and private international law, freedom of information and corruption.

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Papers by Emmanuel Saffa Abdulai

Electoral Politics, Laws and Ethnicity in Africa

Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 2021

IALS Student Law Review, 2020

A military coup in the Republic of Mali, a West African nation, leading to the resignation, arres... more A military coup in the Republic of Mali, a West African nation, leading to the resignation, arrest and detention of the democratically elected sitting president in August, 2020. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) sent an envoy demanding for restoration of constitutionally order and democracy. It was in the same direction that, on the 19th January 2017, ECOWAS, launched operation ‘Restore Democracy in Gambia’ and mobilized a standby force - from six nations - to militarily intervene in a member state, if diplomacy failed to persuade former President Yayah Jammeh to step down and accept presidential elections result. This is not the first time that ECOWAS has intervened in a member country to restore democracy and provide humanitarian protection for civilians. In 1999, led by Nigeria, ECOWAS restored the democratically elected government of ex-President Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone, who had been illegally toppled by his military. This article looks at whether there...

The conceptualisation of a state of emergency has emerged in the discourse of politics, internati... more The conceptualisation of a state of emergency has emerged in the discourse of politics, international human rights and constitutional law as the most potent threat to the full realisation and implementation of constitutional and international human rights. During the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, state of emergency has become a tool for the violation of fundamental human rights not only in the West African region, but globally. This article seeks to examine the concept of state of emergency in international law and constitutional jurisprudence in order to understand whether recent claims of many governments declaring states of emergency can be justified. This article analyses and reviews the constitutional history of the use of state of emergency in Europe, United States and eventually three West Africa counties in Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

Freedom of Information Law and Good Governance, 2021

Pharmacognosy Communications, 2021