In Focus

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 June 2026: In 2008, following the unauthorised landing of a plane carrying cocaine at Sierra Leone’s Lungi international airport, the country’s response was a radical strike against impunity: a Certificate of Emergency to enact the National Drugs Control Act. The Act redeemed the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 07 June 2026: The Commonwealth Observer Group to the 30 April 2026 general elections in Antigua and Barbuda has released its final report, calling for urgent reform of constituency boundaries while commending the overall peaceful and transparent conduct of the polls. The Group reiterated concerns first raised [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2026: As drugs addiction among young people in Sierra Leone continues to destroy lives and impact the economy and the wider society, Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr met some of these youth to talk about their lives. “A sad reality is that hundreds of kush [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 June 2026: Africa’s most renowned actor and film producer – Idris Elba, has this week been awarded knighthood by King Charles III in the New Year Honours for services to young people, the BBC reported. He’ll now be known as Sir Idris Elba. Idris received the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 June 2026: At a time when human trafficking, modern slavery and anti-migrant sentiment are increasing across parts of Africa, Catholic leaders, civil society organisations and law enforcement agencies are strengthening collaboration to protect the most vulnerable and restore dignity to victims. In an interview after attending [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: On the occasion of Africa Day 2026, Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), and Mr. Évariste Ndayishimiye, President of the Republic of Burundi and the Chairperson of the African Union, have issued a united call for accelerated integration, global [Read More]

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: Some pandemics don’t strike the body—they slash the tongue. They spread through prosecutions and public warnings, and through the quiet calculations people make before speaking. Sierra Leone is living through that contagion: a pandemic of fear, marked by lowered voices, deleted [Read More]

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: Many of you have likely seen the video—women stripped bare in the street, their bodies turned into public property, their pain turned into public entertainment. It is a violence so obscene it seems to knock the breath out of language itself. [Read More]

Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: For years, Sierra Leone’s authorities dismissed allegations that the country was becoming a strategic transit hub for global cocaine syndicates. Every major seizure linked to Freetown was met with the same institutional reflex: denial, deflection, and carefully worded press statements. But [Read More]