The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Contempt of court or contempt of due process? The detention of former Attorney General of Sierra Leone – Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara

October 12, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: The unfortunate events of 7 and 8 October 2026, involving the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, Justice Komba Kamanda, and former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK), during the Supreme Court proceedings concerning the Constitutional Amendment Bill, raise fundamental questions about [Read More]

Contempt of court or contempt of due process? The detention of former Attorney General of Sierra Leone – Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara

October 12, 2026 0

Chief of Staff of ECOWAS standby force pays courtesy call on the Nigerian Chief of Army Staff

October 12, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: The Chief of Staff, ECOWAS Standby Force (COS ESF), Brigadier General Sheikh Massaquoi and the Commander, ECOWAS Logistics Depot (ELD), Lungi (Photo above), Navy Captain Idenyi Jude Akpa, accompanied by staff officers of the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) and the Peace Support Operations Division [Read More]

Cameroon advocates for lifting of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) suspension in Brussels

October 12, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: Cameroon’s Minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development – Professor FUH CALISTUS Gentry, met last Friday with Mrs Maria van der Hoeven, Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Board, to advocate for the lifting of Cameroon’s suspension. Held on the sidelines of [Read More]

Merck Foundation CEO, Dr. Rasha Kelej highlights the importance of changing community expectations to empower girls through education

October 12, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: As part of her virtual Mentorship and Leadership Platform, “Beyond Power; Leadership, Global Influence and Impact,” Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation, has shared a new leadership article titled “Before a Girl Can Reach Her Potential, Her Family and Community Must Believe She [Read More]

Turning experience into action for women’s health and empowerment

October 12, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: As we celebrate Black History Month here in the UK, today we honour a remarkable Sierra Leonean, living and working in London. She is Adama Nyama Bah. By any measure, Adama Nyama Bah has lived a remarkable life. Born in Kabala, the headquarters of [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s prickly Chief Justice Komba Kamanda lost his rag and ordered the arrest of senior opposition lawyer for contempt of Supreme Court

October 9, 2026 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2026: There was drama at Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court yesterday, as the senior lawyer for the country’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party – Barrister Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK) who himself is a former Attorney-General, was asked by the Chief Justice – Komba Kamanda [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s dilemma – National Election Watch, a constitution in dispute, and 2028 on the horizon

October 5, 2026 0

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2026: In 2002, shortly after Sierra Leone emerged from a devastating civil war and began the difficult work of rebuilding its democracy, 494 registered civil society organizations formed the National Election Watch (NEW). Its mission was both ambitious and essential: to monitor, [Read More]

Sierra Leone – A sum of errors

October 5, 2026 0

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2026: Sierra Leone has never lacked brilliant people. Our deeper failure has been our inability to build institutions that can multiply that brilliance. (Photo: Dr Davidson Nicol was the first black African elected as a Fellow of a Cambridge college – a [Read More]

President Bio’s protection of wanted global narcotics baron puts Sierra Leone’s economy at risk as EU stops aid

October 3, 2026 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2026: Hundreds of millions of dollars planned investments to Sierra Leone by foreign companies, may now be at risk as the European Union (EU) this week decides to halt its financial aid to the country. The EU’s decision comes following President Bio’s reluctance to extradite [Read More]

Call for nominations for Sierra Leone Diaspora Excellence Awards

October 3, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2026: Members of the global Sierra Leonean community can submit nominations across 12 distinct categories celebrating impact across sectors. Investor of the Year Recognizes the highest verifiable capital deployed into local, job-creating ventures in Sierra Leone. Returnee Trailblazer Honors returnees who have built and sustained [Read More]

ECOWAS, European Union, and GIZ initiate new regional energy governance and information system for West Africa

October 3, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2026: The new Regional Energy Governance and Information System in West Africa (REGIS-WA) kicked -off with a workshop, marking a decisive step towards harmonizing regional energy governance, reinforcing data architecture, and accelerating cross-border clean energy integration across West Africa. The project implemented under the Directorate [Read More]

Dangote calls on Africa to keep its capital at home as industrialization takes centre stage at Unstoppable Africa

September 23, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: Africa must stop sending its capital abroad and start investing in its own industrial future, Aliko Dangote, President and CEO of Dangote Group, told global business leaders at Unstoppable Africa 2026 yesterday, as he set out an ambitious vision for African industrialization backed by [Read More]

Alamein Africa Forum to bring together key political and business leaders

September 23, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: The inaugural Alamein Africa Forum will take place from October 2-4 in the historic city of Alamein on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast in parallel with the 2026 African Union mid-year summit. Established in response to a mandate from the African Union, which called for a [Read More]

USTDA supports reliable power for Africa’s Lobito corridor

September 23, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: The U.S. Trade and Development Agency is strengthening power infrastructure along the Lobito Corridor, a strategic logistics route in Central and Southern Africa vital to diversifying America’s critical minerals supply chains. (Photo above: L – R Thomas R. Hardy, USTDA Deputy Director and Brian [Read More]

AfDB and GCERF join forces to strengthen prevention, resilience and development investment in Africa

September 23, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: The African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Global Community Engagement and Resilience Fund (GCERF) have signed a Letter of Intent to establish a framework for closer cooperation, aligning community-led prevention efforts with development investment in fragile and conflict-affected settings across Africa. The Letter of [Read More]

Abidjan hosts pivotal water governance talks as West Africa prepares for first-ever regional water forum

September 23, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: Home to 28 shared river basins covering nearly 71 percent of its total land area, one of the highest levels of water interdependence anywhere in the world, West Africa opened a defining chapter in its water governance calendar in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, on 22 [Read More]

East African Community (EAC) steps up regional infectious disease outbreak preparedness, calls for more support

September 23, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: As the region continues to grapple with recurring outbreaks of highly infectious diseases such as Ebola, the East African Community (EAC) is stepping up efforts to ensure every Partner State has frontline health workers equipped with the capacity to detect, contain and clinically manage [Read More]

President of Kenya convenes committee to advance Africa’s common position ahead of 31st Conference of the Parties (COP31) in Antalya

September 23, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: Yesterday, at the Permanent Observer Mission of the African Union to the United Nations in New York, and on the margins of the 81st Session of the UN General Assembly, William Samoei Ruto, President of the Republic of Kenya and Coordinator of the Committee [Read More]

African Union and UN renew agreements to strengthen strategic partnership in operational support

September 23, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2026: At a ceremony at UN Headquarters in New York, on 21 September, H.E. Selma Malika Haddadi, Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, and Mr. Atul Khare, Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support, signed the renewed Memorandum of Intent on cooperation in operational support and Memorandum [Read More]

General Birame Diop and Ambassador Marc Fonbaustier discuss cooperation between ECOWAS and France

September 21, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 September 2026: The two leaders addressed the security challenges hindering peace and stability in West Africa, including terrorism, organized crime, insecurity, cybercrime, cross-border crime, misinformation, and disinformation. Marc Fonbaustier reiterated France’s commitment to further supporting ECOWAS’s efforts to address these challenges and promote regional peace, security, [Read More]

State capture in real time: How a criminal empire turns Sierra Leone into a narco‑hub

September 21, 2026 0

Albert David KAMARA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 September 2026: Sierra Leone today stands at a danger zone of governance where criminal enterprise, political fragility, and institutional decay collide with devastating force. What began as whispers of foreign “investors” arriving with unexplained wealth has expanded dangerously into a full‑scale national security [Read More]

Sierra Leone – A sum of errors

October 5, 2026 0

President Bio’s protection of wanted global narcotics baron puts Sierra Leone’s economy at risk as EU stops aid

October 3, 2026 4

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