The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2026: Commonwealth law ministers concluded their meeting in Fiji last Thursday, 12 February 2026, by committing to new measures aimed at strengthening legal protections for people amid growing democratic, economic and climate pressures. The commitments, set out in an outcome statement issued on 11 February [Read More]

Commonwealth citizens to benefit from stronger legal protections agreed by law ministers

Justice in Sierra Leone: The remand of APC Secretary General Lansana Dumbuya – Op ed

Basita Michael: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2026: On February 12, 2026, we witnessed an unsettling moment at Pademba Road Magistrate Court No. 1, one that should give every citizen pause, regardless of political affiliation. Lansana Dumbuya Esq., National Secretary General of the All Peoples’ Congress (APC), stood before Magistrate [Read More]

The paradox of Donald Trump’s foreign policy for Africa

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2026: When Donald Trump referred to African countries, Haiti and El Salvador as shithole nations during a meeting on the 12 January 2018, the whole of Africa’s 1.55 billion people was up in arms for his unfiltered audacity and impudence against such a [Read More]

Granting bail is a constitutional safeguard for everyone in Sierra Leone – Op ed

Dr Alie Kabba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2026: In 2015, under the APC government of former President Ernest Bai Koroma, I was arrested in what I can only describe as a grave abuse of state power. With the cooperation of willing hands within the system, I was denied bail [Read More]

African leaders call for sustainable malaria financing as progress stalls and funding crisis deepens

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2026: Against a backdrop of stalled progress, declining international funding, and intensifying threats, African Heads of State and Government yesterday 14th February 2026, issued a unified call for a new era of malaria financing at the 39th African Union Summit in Ethiopia. The African Union [Read More]

Constitutional Amendment Bill 2025 and the judicialization of election processes – Op ed

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2026: What Section 7 of the Constitution of Sierra Leone Amendment Bill, 2025 proposes is what I term the judicialization of the election, a dangerous compression of constitutional rights into rigid procedural timelines that may ultimately weaken, rather than strengthen our [Read More]

Sierra Leone – Who Killed Valentina Kamanda?

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2026: The nation has been thrown into deep mourning following the tragic killing of Mrs. Valentina Bisodun Catherine Kamanda (née Nicol), a respected matron and lecturer at the Faculty of Nursing, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS), University of Sierra [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s PPRC suspends opposition APC over unpaid NLe350,000 fine

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2026: The Political Parties Regulation Commission (PPRC) has suspended the country’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party, with effect from 8:30 a.m. today for failing to comply with a NLe350,000 fine imposed on the party, the political parties regulatory body has said. [Read More]

Baba Malick Ba appointed regional director of ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2026: The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has appointed Mr. Baba Malick Ba as Regional Director overseeing Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, The Gambia, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde and Guinea, effective February 1, 2026. Mr. Baba Malick Ba is a senior finance professional with extensive [Read More]

How access to information changes Umu Koroma’s market life

Kadiatu Kabia: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2026: Umu Koroma is a household food trader at the bustling Low-Cost Market in Kissy, where she sells food and other daily essentials to families in her community. Like many traders, Umu faced daily challenges caused by poor sanitation in the market. Waste [Read More]

Kono leaders fail workers amid Koidu Holdings crisis in Sierra Leone

Rev. Dr. Andrew T. Gbandeh-Mitta: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2026: In the devastating aftermath of Koidu Limited’s (formerly known as Koidu Holdings) abrupt shutdown in May 2025, which resulted in the mass layoff of over 1,000 local workers amid bitter disputes over wages, exchange rates, working conditions, and inadequate [Read More]

The Education Collaborative joins Africa.com Knowledge Partner Network to advance education leadership across Africa

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2026: Africa.com today announced a new Knowledge Partnership with The Education Collaborative, a pan-African network dedicated to strengthening education systems through locally grounded research, collaboration, and leadership development. Founded and convened at Ashesi University, The Education Collaborative brings together educators, policymakers, researchers, and practitioners from [Read More]

Gambia’s President Barrow inaugurates ECOWAS funded infrastructures

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2026: The inauguration which began on February 7, 2026, at Njongon, will be held from February 7 – 15, 2026 at several locations across The Gambia. Declaring the inauguration ceremony officially open, Gambian President Adama BARROW, described the electricity access project as an “unprecedented achievement [Read More]

Free quality education in Sierra Leone: Promise, progress, and the hard truths we must face

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Donald Doherty & Saidu Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 February 2026: When Sierra Leone launched the Free Quality School Education (FQSE) in 2018, it was more than a policy announcement. It was a moral declaration, described as one of the most ambitious social policies in Sierra Leone’s post-war history. In [Read More]

How Chernor Ojuku’s journalistic instinct brought us joy – Op ed

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John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 February 2026: Today, I reflect on the life of the late Chernor Ojuku Sesay, a former colleague now resting in the world beyond, whose memory remains vivid among us. Chernor who passed away six years ago, was one of the five of us [Read More]

Nigeria and UK deepen defence cooperation to mitigate contemporary security challenges

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2026: In a strategic effort to strengthen Nigeria’s response to evolving security challenges through sustained international defence collaboration, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General OO Oluyede on 6 February 2026, received Dr Richard Montgomery, the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Nigeria at Defence Headquarters, [Read More]

Sierra Leone – the irony of APC’s 2028 elections bid – Op ed

Alusine sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2026: At the All People’s Congress (APC) party’s mammoth gathering held at the Atooga Stadium in Freetown, one striking feature of the address delivered by the party’s Acting Chairman, Pa-Yansaneh, was his persistent and emphatic invocation of a single term: TRIPARTITE. Indeed, the [Read More]

Freetown’s electricity conundrum – Op ed

Trevor Young: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2026: I had a very promising and honest conversation with Edmond B Nonie – Deputy Minister of Energy I. It was good news mixed with hard truths about why electricity remains unstable in Freetown, the Western Area, and across Sierra Leone. Freetown’s population [Read More]

Sour relationship as Sierra Leone Electoral Commission bars elections watchdog

Kelvin Jay (Voices of Salone): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2026: Tensions between the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) and National Elections Watch (NEW) have reportedly deepened following the controversy surrounding the 2023 General Elections, with NEW accusing the Commission of deliberate exclusion and attempts to silence independent election [Read More]

ECOWAS and African Development Bank hold high-level consultation meeting to deepen regional integration

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS Commission) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have ended a high-level consultation meeting on the extension of the Regional Integration Strategy Paper (RISP) for West Africa (2020–2027). The three-day meeting, which took place from 4 to [Read More]

Nigeria signs electric vehicle factory agreement with South Korea

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2026: Nigeria has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea’s Asia Economic Development Committee to establish an electric vehicle manufacturing plant and nationwide charging infrastructure. The project is intended to support local EV production with a planned annual capacity of 300,000 vehicles. According to [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s PPRC suspends opposition APC over unpaid NLe350,000 fine

Baba Malick Ba appointed regional director of ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development