Pastor Mohamed Sesay Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 August 2017 President Koroma was elected to office in 2007 on the platform that his All Peoples Congress party had shaken off its bad habits of old under the despots – Siaka Stevens and Saidu Momoh; with him even naming the party “New [Read More]
Lansana Gberie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 August 2017: The calamity that struck Sierra Leone on August 14th, when Sugarloaf, the conical mountain overlooking the capital, Freetown, collapsed in a mudslide that swept away buildings and killed at least 400 people, was shocking but not entirely surprisingly. It is important to be blunt: The [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2017 President Koroma today, Monday 21st of August, visited the East-end of Freetown to take stock of flood-hit areas. Meeting flood affected persons from Mountain Cut, Culvert and Wellington communities who are now seeking shelter at Brima Attouga mini-stadium, President Koroma told residents that government [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2017 The Sierra Leone Telegraph has launched an Emergency Appeal to raise at least £50,000 to help victims of the flood disaster which took place on the 13th and 14th of August 2017 in Freetown. So far – in just one week, we have raised [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2017 (Photo: Vice president Victor Foh – head of the Hajj Committee). The people of Sierra Leone have been ordered by president Koroma to observe five days of mourning, in honour of hundreds of their fellow citizens, whose lives were cut short by a massive [Read More]
Abdul Fonti Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2017 “It might be too early however, to think or conclude that President Koroma is directly involved in this blatant human rights abuse of his people. His actions in the coming days against Hajj Committee members that seemed to have let him down [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2017 The dust or better still, the mud has not concretised yet, but questions as to the cause/s of the recent flood and mudslides that claimed the lives of hundreds of Sierra Leoneans are well underway. It is difficult to quantify or attempt [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2017 The terrible mudslides in Freetown, which have left more than 3000 people homeless and over 600 dead, is said to grimly illustrate the human cost of the Koroma government’s failure to implement basic housing, land and environmental protection policies, said Amnesty International. The damning [Read More]
Dr Julius Spencer Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2017 I have not expressed my views on national events for quite a while, but today I cannot but say something. For the past days, I have been quite tearful. In other words, I feel like crying a lot. I have not [Read More]
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