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Ordinary Life Resumes in Sierra Leone After Violent Protests: What Happened and Why?_我的网站
A | Dozens of businesses, government offices, vehicles, and at least three police stations went up in flames in Freetown, Makeni, Kamakwie, and other cities across Sierra Leone from August 10 through 12, with over 113 people arrested and police introducing an emergency nationwide curfew and deploying tear gas and live ammunition to disperse crowds.,The curfew was lifted on August 13, with banks, businesses, government offices, and most stores reopened and communal services beginning to clear the damage. However, ramped-up security measures, including federal troop deployments to assist police, have been left in place.,What Happened?,Sierra Leone is one of the poorest nations in the world, ranking 186 out of 198 in a recent GDP purchasing power parity ranking. An estimated 80 percent of the population lives in poverty, many of them in the country’s rural areas. Like other nations in Africa, the country has faced special difficulties amid the global economic calamity brought on by COVID, and exacerbated by Western restrictions on Russian exports of agricultural goods and fertilizers amid the security crisis in Ukraine, which has caused a major jump in food prices.,AfricaAnti-Russia Sanctions Left Africa Without Access to Grain and Fertilisers, African Union Chief Says3 June, 11:13 GMT,As a net importer of both energy and food, Sierra Leone is especially vulnerable to global economic conditions, and along with food and fertilizers, fuel and electricity costs have also soared. Food prices alone have jumped by over 40 percent over the past few months, with a bag of rice once costing 350 leones now going for over 500. The country’s Central Bank recently removed three zeros from the national currency in a bid to restore confidence. The country has also been overcome by weeks of strikes by government workers, including doctors and teachers, and by small traders protesting poor conditions.,Coup Plot?,However, President Julius Maada Bio has also accused protesters of having ulterior motives beyond the cost of living crisis.,“This was not a protest against the high cost of living occasioned by the ongoing global economic crisis. The chant of the insurrectionists was for a violent overthrow of the democratically-elected government,” Bio said in an address on August 12 after returning to the country from a holiday in London.,Local media pointed to the chants of “Bio must go” among protesters as they gathered in the capital, and the president accused some of the demonstrators of consisting of “APC Warriors,” a reference to the opposition All People’s Congress party, which governed the country from 2007 until 2018, when Bio’s Sierra Leone People’s Party won national elections.,No doubt mindful of the violent civil war which shook the country between 1991 and 2002, claiming as many as 70,000 lives and displacing over 2.5 million people, Bio vowed that “in the coming weeks and months, [the] government will undertake necessary security actions meant to guarantee the peace and security of all citizens.”,“The security forces will, and must, act with great restraint and within their professional codes of service. But be assured that my government will crack down hard on violent insurrectionists, their collaborators, their sponsors and their supporters. My government will relentlessly fight those who would rather use terror and gruesome violence to achieve political goals,” the president said.,As a government, we will continue our engagement with Civil Society as we strive to promote sustainable peace, national cohesion and socio-economic development in Sierra Leone. #newdirectionagenda— President Julius Maada Bio (@PresidentBio) August 18, 2022,Bio did not elaborate on who these “sponsors” and “supporters” were, or whether they included any foreign actors.,Geopolitical Context,Like other African nations, Sierra Leone recently rejected calls by Washington and Brussels to show solidarity with the West and Ukraine and impose sanctions on Russia. But even before the escalation of the Ukraine crisis, relations between Freetown and Washington were tense at times. Last year, US President Joe Biden snubbed Bio by refusing to invite the African leader to the US’ so-called “Democracy Summit.” No reasons were given. However, neighboring Liberia, which faced mass civil unrest of its own between 2019 and 2020, and whose officials have been sanctioned by the US over suspected corruption, did get an invite.,While Sierra Leone maintains economic and political ties with its former British colonial masters, and remains a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, Freetown has sought to expand its partnerships with other geopolitical power centers, including Russia and China. President Bio attended the Russia-Africa Summit in Sochi in 2019, where he discussed ways to strengthen economic cooperation between the distant nations. In February 2021, Freetown signed onto Moscow’s efforts to prevent the deployment of weapons in outer space. In May 2021, Bio spoke by phone to President Xi Jinping of China, where they discussed the friendly, “brotherly” relations between the two nations, as well Chinese assistance to Freetown in measures against COVID, and agricultural and economic development.,In this context, the reactions of major foreign powers to this month’s unrest have been telling. While the United States, Britain, and the European Union collectively expressed “grave concern” over the “disturbing reports of violence” and urged the parties to “stay calm, promote accountability and ensure respect for human rights,” China’s Embassy smoothed over the protests altogether, refraining from wagging its finger at Freetown and instead trumpeting the expanding cooperation between the two countries.,We are gravely concerned by reports of violence surrounding today’s demonstrations in Sierra Leone. We urge all parties to stay calm, promote accountability, and ensure respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.— Bureau of African Affairs (@AsstSecStateAF) August 10, 2022,Similarly, while UK High Commissioner to Sierra Leone Lisa Chesney lectured President Bio about how “violence has no place in a democracy and the necessary investigation into August 10 can sit alongside de-escalation,” the Russian Embassy in the Republic of Guinea, which concurrently serves as the Embassy in Sierra Leone, only presented a bare bones report on the situation in the country, Bio’s meetings with community and tribal leaders, and indicated that an internal “debriefing” was being created “regarding the causes, course and consequences of the riots on August 10.”。 入沪研学 赋能成长 ——昆山市市校合作项目推进活动 上海师范大学闵行实验幼儿园 为进一步推动市校合作步伐，提高区域内骨干教师的专业素养，2025年1月9日，在昆山市花桥中心幼儿园徐莺园长带领下，花桥四园骨干教师一行来到了上海师范大学闵行实验幼儿园。 实地观摩 经验交流 在上海师范大学闵行实验幼儿园李青园长的引领下，园长、老师们观摩了户外活动。
B | 观摩过程中，老师们拍照记录、相互交流，为后续优化自身园所的户外活动积累宝贵经验。 随后，大家还参观了园所环境和班级环境，班级内富有童趣的互动式情绪环境、充满幼儿独一无二的表征的园所环境以及富有意义的区域设置，都给老师们留下了深刻的印象。 专题交流 成果分享 上海师范大学闵行实验幼儿园李青园长进行了《聚焦社会情绪教育 追寻课程温度》的专题交流，她从关注焦点——幼儿社会情绪教育的缘起入手，介绍了全园在课题引领下寻找课程温度，不断完善幼儿社会情绪学习课程构建的过程，呈现了相关研究成果如“关注每一个、接纳全情绪、支持积极行动”的幼儿社会情绪教育观、“从情绪觉察、情绪认知到情绪问题解决”为主线的特色活动内容框架体系等，最后在新一轮市级课题中围绕“教师话语”开展的研究续进。
C | 通过面对面的交流与分享，双方在课题研究与课程建、教研训一体化对教师专业成长的推动、幼儿教育的理念与实践上达成了更多的共识。 专家讲座 引领发展 上海师范大学学前教育学院朱晶晶副教授开展了《幼儿情绪能力发展与培养》的专题讲座，朱教授从幼儿情绪发展的特点、影响因素以及培养策略等方面进行了系统阐述，结合生动的案例和前沿的教育研究成果，为老师们提供了科学的理论指导和实用的方法建议。 上海师范大学附属嘉定幼儿园 2025年1月14日，在上海师范大学基教处周燕菊科长陪同下，花桥四园骨干教师一行来到了上海师范大学附属嘉定幼儿园开启学习之旅。 实地观摩 经验交流 在上师大附属嘉定幼儿园金春亚园长和陈尧霞副园长的分组带领下，教师们参观园所环境，了解办园理念，共同观摩了各年龄段的低结构游戏活动。观摩过程中，教师们仔细观察、积极交流，为今后提升自身园所的教育教学质量和丰富游戏活动形式积累了重要经验。 聚焦课程 案例分享 上师大附属嘉定幼儿园陈尧霞副园长围绕“完美乐园 共享成长”的办园理念，以开展户外玩美活动的实践探索进行了主题汇报。在玩美课程的理念下，在户外支持的环境中，让幼儿直接体验，以玩为形式，美为目标，通过感知、探索、欣赏、表现、交往、分享等方式多元体验，使幼儿获得”五美”发展。 上师大附属嘉定幼儿园何晓兰、周莹莹两位老师分享了两个案例，为老师们提供了宝贵的实践范例和教育启示。 专家讲座 引领发展 上海师范大学学前教育学院罗文蔚副教授开展了《未来已来：技术融合保教实践之上海经验》的专题讲座。罗教授聚焦上海学前教育领域数字化转型的最新趋势和实践创新，探讨了如何利用信息技术促进学前教育的发展，提升幼儿园教师的数字素养，推动儿童全面发展的思考与做法，为老师们提供了科学的理论指导和宝贵的实践经验。 有一种力量是携手前行 有一种引领是资源共享 有一种交流是凝聚共识 有一种成长是不断突破。
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