Yusuf Bangura (Nyon, Switzerland): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2023: The decision on 14 June 2023 by the Grammys to add an African category to their yearly awards is an improvement on the grouping of African music under the all-encompassing and nebulous category of Global Music. However, this new category [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2023: A new political row has broken in Sierra Leone, after the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) announced in a public notice that all security forces assigned to supervise the elections on June 24th, as well as Sierra Leonean Pilgrims leaving for Mecca, were [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2023: This afternoon, Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC held a press conference in Freetown, where they presented to the international community and the people of Sierra Leone, the party’s dissatisfaction with the election processes that have been put in place by the Electoral Commission, and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2023: We would like to draw your attention to the current situation regarding the arrest and detention last week of Mr Arthur E Pearce, former Western Area Chairman of the NGC, who recently defected to the APC and is now an integral member of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2023: Dozens of young people were arrested across Sierra Leone yesterday, following street protests against the Bio-led SLPP government. Many of those arrested were badly beaten by the army and police who were seen on video kicking and punching unarmed protesters. In one video clip [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2023: As political tension rises in Sierra Leone with the arrest today of several protesters calling for the sacking of the country’s chief electoral commissioner and for Electoral Commission Sierra Leone (ECSL) to establish an independent review of the Voter Register published last week, the [Read More]
Ivan Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2023: The Sierra Leone Police, the military, Electoral Commission Sierra Leone (ECSL) and the judiciary are laying the foundation for our country to slide back to conflict. The heads of all of these institutions were deliberately handpicked and appointed to serve the interest [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2023: As Sierra Leone’s presidential and general elections approach, the two political Argonauts – Maada Bio SLPP and Samura Kamara APC, are fiercely reaching out not only to their traditional supporters but the opponent’s stronghold, where they need to convince voters to vote outside the [Read More]
Leeroy Wilfred Kabs-Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2023: I belong to Sierra Leone and Liberia. Both are my countries, and I held their citizenship , though I am now a U.S. citizen . Therefore, anything that would hurt either of them is of primary and dire concern to me. [Read More]
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