The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Abdul Kandeh Turay, Chairman Karene District Council The outcome of the eight-day engagement between the APC, the Government and the Moral Guarantors has generated mixed reactions across the country. While both the Government and the APC have claimed victory, what stands out clearly is the visible uneasiness on the part [Read More]

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Siera Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2026: The debate over whether Parliament can establish a Standing Committee on Electoral Matters has produced more heat than light. Brima Sannoh’s analysis in Cocorioko yesterday was fair-minded — but fairness without precision leaves the constitutional question unanswered. What Section 32(11) says [Read More]

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2026: The 55% threshold required for electoral victory in Sierra Leone, as stated in the country’s 1991 Constitution was no arithmetic accident. It was a deliberate act of political design—an attempt by the framers to confront, rather than merely ignore, the country’s [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 April 2026: As confidence and trust between the government of Sierra Leone and the country’s main opposition APC party continue to remain in short supply, the international community – including UK and Germany, have once again stepped in, calling on the Sierra Leone government and the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2026: After almost two months political standoff between the government of Sierra Leone and the country’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party, it seems there is light at the tunnel as the party’s elected members of parliament, local councillors and mayors end their boycott [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2026: Justice and civil liberty were murdered in Sierra Leone yesterday by a brutal president, who is known for committing some of the worst atrocities against his own people – especially political opponents, after Zainab Sheriff – a young female political activist was sentenced to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2026: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) Party held a high-level meeting with the international community yesterday in Freetown, where they expressed strong concerns about the government’s poor and dishonest implementation of the Agreement for National Unity (ANU) and the recommendations of the [Read More]

Olangba Albert Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2026: As Sierra Leone seeks to expand its security architecture, the real test is whether it strengthens democracy or concentrates power and how it shapes public trust ahead of the 2028 elections. Citizens must critically examine the growing push for expanded security [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2026: One of the most serious misgivings expressed by opponents of President Julius Maada Bio’s entry into politics as a retired head of a brutal military junta, was  the risk of him not respecting or suspending constitutional order, as he pleases. And since coming to [Read More]

Layemin Joe Sandi (JP: Siera Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2026: My interest in the current situation affecting local councils in Sierra Leone was drawn from a social media post issued by the National PRO of my party, the SLPP, and further reinforced by discussions on the Morning Coffee Programme I [Read More]