The Sierra Leone Telegraph

What have they done in office to make the change we now crave?

July 20, 2017 1

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 July 2017 Change is not easy, and admittedly, for years people had given up hope and dared only to dream of a major roll of the dice, one fine day. But we brought ourselves here, and trust me, the solution must be in [Read More]

Sierra Leone children’s affairs minister Sylvia Blyden facing death threats

January 28, 2017 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2017 Despite serious and credible death threats to stop today’s programme, Hon. Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden will at 1:00pm today Saturday, 28th January, 2017, break her silence on the CFN issue live on AY TV and radio, surrounded by children from western area, Kailahun, Kenema, [Read More]

Kenyan voters need to resist the allure of voting for the usual suspects

April 28, 2017 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 April 2017 In a few months Kenyan voters will have the chance to make choices that could change the political landscape. Historically voters have tended to sacrifice this right at the altar of tribe, money or personality. But, writes Yvonne Rowa Woods, Kenyans can turn their [Read More]

President Koroma is an effective leader says Maada Bio at State House

October 12, 2015 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2015 Julius Maada Bio – the 2012 presidential candidate for the Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP), returned home yesterday, 11th October, after pursuing his doctoral studies at the Bradford University in the UK. But it is not certain whether he has finally completed and obtained [Read More]

Time to salvage our democracy

April 9, 2017 0

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9th April 2017 Self-delusion is bad – but collective self-delusion is truly the ultimate. (Photo: Selling the presidency to the highest bidder?) It is clear that the government of Sierra Leone cannot be trusted to exhibit or stand with integrity. But whether the abnormal, [Read More]

The calamity of an APC government stewardship of the Sierra Leone economy – post 2018 elections

July 7, 2017 9

John Mannah Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 July 2017 One of the prime reasons why citizens of democratic sovereign states enter into ‘social contract’ with their elected government, and entrust their sovereignty, individual liberty and freedom to the ruling political party is for that government to in turn promise to promote [Read More]

Ebola may be gone but political repression is entrenched in Sierra Leone

December 24, 2015 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 December 2015 Over a month ago, the World Health Organisation declared Sierra Leone free of the Ebola virus that had taken the lives of over 4,000 people and robbed millions of their dignity. Corruption and poor governance are the root causes of the spread of Ebola, [Read More]

Women in Sierra Leone can now wear trousers to the country’s law courts without facing arrest

July 13, 2017 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 July 2017 Sierra Leone is slowly catching up with 21st century standards of human rights, including the right of women to wear whatever they choose to wear – including trousers, and enter the precincts of the country’s law courts without being arrested and or assaulted by [Read More]

Kandeh Yumkella’s political odyssey – hemmed on all sides

July 13, 2017 2

Andrew Keili Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 July 2017 I had initially resisted airing any views on the Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella issue as I would probably not be viewed as a dispassionate and disinterested player in the whole saga. This issue has however dominated the news to such an extent that [Read More]