Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2019: Liberia’s constitution contains what’s known as a “Negro clause” which limits citizenship in the country to black people. Similar clauses were included in the laws of a number of other African countries, including Chad, Malawi and Mali, but all have been removed. The fact [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 February 2019: Some political scribes may have already started writing the political obituary of the APC Party. Amid the recriminations, accusations and several theories postulated to identify the reasons for its failure to win the 2018 elections, a significant part of the blame has [Read More]
Abdulai Braima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2019: Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland – Mr Tamba Lamina was addressing an energised gathering of a cross section of Kono residents in the UK, at a packed welcoming ceremony organised yesterday in South East London by an umbrella group [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last Friday said that it has indicted two senior officials in the Ministry of Information and Communication, over the alleged misappropriation of funds meant for sensitising the general public about the work of the Commissions of Inquiry which start [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2019: As political controversy and debate surrounding the legality of the Sierra Leone Commissions of Inquiry into the management of the country’s affairs by the former Koroma-led APC government heightens, Chief Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards has spoken. He says the Commissions of Inquiry are legal. [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 February 2019: The last general election in Sierra Leone was one of the most memorable ones in recent memory. This was largely thanks to a lot of precedents set, following the outcome of the much-debated process. It is no secret that the outcome may [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: The Executive Chairman of the Environment Protection Agency, Sierra Leone, Prof. Foday Moriba Jaward, last week met with officials of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in a move to establish a strong partnership between the two institutions. The meeting took place in the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: Ghana rolls out the red carpet to encourage resettlement in the motherland. In Washington, D.C., in September 2018, Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo declared and formally launched the “Year of Return, Ghana 2019” for Africans in the Diaspora, giving fresh impetus to the quest to [Read More]
Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2019: Freetown City Council has installed street rubbish collection bins across the capital Freetown, to help combat the problem of waste collection and disposal. Speaking on Radio Democracy FM 98, Mayor Aki-Sawyer said garbage collectors will be collecting garbage from houses and take [Read More]
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