Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 April 2019: Following a recent televised BBC documentary which shows China’s fishing fleet taking advantage of weak and porous monitoring systems in Sierra Leone, the government of Sierra Leone has this week passed a moratorium on all industrial fishing along its waters. The BBC documentary – [Read More]
Mohamed Massaquoi (Mass): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 April 2019: In the wake of that shocking electoral defeat in its traditional stronghold of Tonko Limba, the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC), was left in confusion and internal brawl, and with difficulty in focusing on anything productive but rather turning its [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 April 2019: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) will hold its flagship annual event, the Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW) from 4-7 April 2019, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire). This year, the weekend will focus on the key topic of African migrations. It will feature an African-led [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 April 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last Saturday, 27th March 2019, charged the country’s Director of Surveys and Lands at the Ministry of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment – with one count of Abuse of Office contrary to Section 42(1) of the Anti-Corruption Act [Read More]
Cyril Barnes: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2019: About a year ago the people of Sierra Leone decided to vote for the Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio as president, making him the fifth democratically elected President of the small mineral-rich West African nation. Dubbed the ‘actualization of a dream too [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2019: Last Friday, 29 March 2019, the newly appointed Solicitor General of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Lamin Tarawalley, took his oath of office in the presence of president Julius Maada Bio at a ceremony held at State House in Freetown. Shortly after taking his oath of [Read More]
Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2019: There has been much activity and quite a lot of discussions in the media about the recent decision of some prominent former members of the now ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) to return home. That is, to return [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2019: Details about yesterday’s road accident in Rwanda involving three Sierra Leonean members of parliament remain sketchy. But it’s been reported this morning that the vehicle they were travelling in careered off the road into a ditch outside Rwanda’s capital Kigali. It has also been [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2019: The Law Department at Fourah Bay College – University of Sierra Leone, will soon be offering Diplomatic and Consular Law as part of its LLB Degree course. The pioneers of this new development are Francis Gabbidon (Photo) – who has done a lot of [Read More]
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