Saidu Bangura & Donald Doherty: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2026: Fourah Bay College (FBC), celebrates today, February 18, 2026, one hundred and ninety-nine (199) years of existence as the first Western-modelled tertiary institution in West Africa. Many Sierra Leonean academics, alumni and non-alumni of the University of Sierra Leone [Read More]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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