The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Augustine Sorie-Sengbe Marrah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2021: I am not saying that that we should trash politics from our governance. I am saying the deep-seated divisive partisan politics in our nation is our biggest problem. A few months ago, our law firm tried to hire an administrative secretary. [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: 19 October 2021: Last Saturday, 50 new recruits were welcomed into the FCC Metropolitan Police (Met Pol) Force at a ‘passing out’ ceremony held at the Sierra Leone Peacekeeping and Law Enforcement Academy in Hastings. The ceremony followed eight weeks of training in physical, mental and behavioural [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 October 2021: Since her controversial appointment as minister of western region by president Bio in May this year in a snap cabinet reshuffle, little has been seen of or heard about Mrs Nabeela Tunis who was sacked as foreign affairs minister to take over as minister [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 October 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio last Thursday held a meeting with Sierra Leoneans living and working in the United Arab Emirates, UAE, where he also launched the maiden edition of the Embassy’s Newsletter. Speaking to his fellow countrymen, he thanked them for the love [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2021: Elected councillors of the Freetown City Council along with the city’s Mayor – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, yesterday suspended a budget review the council was undertaking with central government, in reaction to what the mayor described as the government’s continuing efforts at sabotaging the council’s service [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2021: Last Thursday, 7th October, President Bio received a report on the findings of the Complaints and Dispute Resolution Committee that was mandated to investigate land disputes in the Western Area from April 2018 to January 2021. Committee chairman, Alhaji Mutada Sesay, who was representing [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2021: As President Bio of Sierra Leone who was democratically elected by the people of Sierra Leone in 2018 after he was branded “a brutal military junta leader” following the extra-judicial killing of dozens of people in 1992 in a coup d’état that brought down [Read More]

Office of Former President Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2021: Former President Ernest Bai Koroma has today Tuesday, 12th October, held a closed – door meeting with the British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Ms Lisa Chesney. This afternoon’s meeting is part of a flurry of diplomatic engagements the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2021: The newly appointed European Union (EU) Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Manuel Muller, has today, Tuesday 12th October, paid a courtesy call on Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma, at his Goderich residence in Freetown. The EU is one of Sierra Leone’s strongest partners [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone telegraph: 11 October 2021: In December 2019, I had the privilege of meeting former President of Liberia, Her Excellency Madame Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Palm Springs, California where we were both speakers at #TEDWomen. Two months later I had the honour of being invited [Read More]

Alim Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2021: SLPP government stands indicted – no hiding place for NaCSA boss and the chief minister. Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad are currently in  doubt over the on-going investigation of an alleged ritual murder matter involving an employee of the National Commissioner [Read More]