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12th August 2022: Barely forty-eight hours have passed and there is rising political and regional tension once again in Sierra Leone, after a massive street protest brought the country to a chilling halt, with demonstrators calling for the resignation of President Bio, who was holidaying in London with his family. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2022: Sierra Leone Police headquarters today published its interim report into yesterday’s street protests which saw four police officers and several civilians killed, as President Bio returns home from his holiday to face a nation ripped apart by hate and political discord. Tonight, as the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2022: Sierra Leone’s main opposition political party – the APC, last night issued a statement condemning yesterday’s violent protests which saw the killing of civilians and security officers. Widespread rioting brought the country to a standstill. The main opposition APC is being accused by supporters [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2022: Reactions to yesterday’s deadly violence in Sierra Leone which claimed the lives of security forces and civilians have been swift. Mayor of Freetown, whose efforts and campaign to develop the country’s capital as a place that is fit for work, enterprise, living and leisure, [Read More]

Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2022: DO we need to catalogue all the bloodshed President Bio has committed in Sierra Leone since his NPRC days and since he came to power in 2018 for anybody to understand why many Sierra Leoneans rejoiced today for the first strong open [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2022: The international community in Sierra Leone, led by United Nations Resident Coordinator in the country – Babatunde Ahonsi, this afternoon called for calm in the aftermath of violent confrontation in many parts of the country between the police and angry youths who took to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2022: Three people, including two civilians and one state security personnel have been killed in Freetown today, as the city is brought to a standstill by angry protesters, calling for the resignation of President Julius Maada Bio who is on holiday in London with his [Read More]

Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 August 2022: Our President, Retired Brig. Maada Bio, recklessly left the nation suffering, with doctors and nurses going on strike and travelled out to the UK to attend his SLPP party’s fundraising dance. And during the party, President Bio said that the SLPP was [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 August 2022: Allegations of misappropriation of almost One Hundred Thousand Pounds by Sierra Leone’s ministry of finance to fund the president’s latest holiday abroad – with the country in economic turmoil, will not make for comfortable reading for President Bio who is currently in London with [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 August 2022: Last Friday, the government of Sierra Leone signed a deal with the Turkish government to strengthen Sierra Leone’s military capability. The agreement was signed by Sierra Leone’s Minister of Defense, Brig. Gen (Rtd) Hassan Kellie Conteh and the Turkish Minister of National Defense, Hulusi [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 August 2022: After sixty years of procrastination, the Parliament of Sierra Leone has today passed into law “The Customary Land Rights Act 2022”, which the government says will address deep inequalities and discrimination in the ownership and control of land, especially in the provinces. Presenting the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 August 2022: President Bio’s victory at the last elections in 2018, was hailed by opposition parties as the result of massive voter fraud and ballot rigging by elections officials sympathetic to the SLPP party. This accusation which almost brought chaos and violence to the streets, prompted [Read More]