CHRDI: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2019: The Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) is calling for an overhaul of Sierra Leone’s Judiciary; and immediate action to be taken by government to ensure that the long list of delayed matters before the courts are addressed with the speed, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 January 2019: New Year’s Day is always an opportunity for the president to speak to the people of Sierra Leone about the solemn promises he has made and the challenges ahead for his government. President Julius Maada Bio was elected ten months ago in a close [Read More]
The Mo Ibrahim Foundation: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 January 2019: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is following with increasing concern the recent political developments in Sudan, where peaceful protests by Sudanese people have escalated into violence and a heavy security crackdown. This has so far resulted in several arrests of political [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 January 2019: Last week, a Sierra Leonean living in America – Gibril Bangura, published a video on social media calling for members of his All People’s Congress (APC) party to march to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) in Freetown, Sierra Leone and burn down [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2019: On Friday, 28th December 2018, National Secretary General of the opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party – Osman Yansaneh, issued a public statement, stating that his party will not subject itself to any Kangaroo court style commission of inquiry. Osman Yansaneh said the commission [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2019: Sierra Leone’s former minister of defence – Palo Conteh, who was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last week, has been freed on bail pending further investigations. Conteh is alleged to have been involved in the misappropriation of tens of millions of dollars in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 December 2018: Last weekend president Julius Maada held talks with the country’s security chiefs at a dinner hosted by his wife – the First Lady – Mrs Fatima Bio at the Presidential Lodge, Hill Station, West of the capital Freetown, where he called for more and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2018: Sierra Leone is one of the wettest countries in sub-Sahara Africa, with 75% of the land classed as arable land, but only 20% of the land is cultivated, making the country heavily dependent on food import. Rice and palm oil are the two most [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2018: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commissioner – Mr Francis Ben Kaifala, this week handed-in a cheque for over Seven Billion Five Hundred and Seventy-Eight Million Leones to president Julius Maada Bio at State House, after several public officials agreed to settle their corruption cases out of [Read More]
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