Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 February 2018 After losing its two protest hearings at the National Electoral Commission to ban Dr Yumkella from contesting the forthcoming elections, the ruling APC has now taken its anger and what many regard as a divisive plot to the country’s Supreme Court. The central point [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 February 2018: As general and presidential elections scheduled for March 7th 2018 draw closer in Sierra leone, political parties have long started their campaigning, although the National Electoral Commission announced the formal start of campaign last week. Most of the parties are now putting the finishing [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 February 2018 Nigerians, like citizens of many large countries, often prioritise news on domestic affairs over what goes on outside their borders. However, as regional or global powers, such countries also need to be well informed about developments around the world, especially in countries [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2018 Significant new financial commitments from donors and developing countries will enable new and improved support for the education of millions of children Ten current and three former heads of state and more than 60 ministers gathered at the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Financing [Read More]
Joseph F Kamara: 4 February 2018: Sierra Leone Telegraph: Dear Dr. Samura Kamara I have with keen interest read your article titled “Sierra Leone is at the cusp of irreversible development”, being circulated on social media by die-hard and overzealous members of the APC. I would have saluted you for [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2018 Dr. Kandeh Yumkella has won an appeal filed by the ruling APC at the head office of the country’s National Electoral Commission (NEC) in Freetown, against the decision of the Kambia District NEC Office to throw out an objection brought by the party’s candidate [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2018 Ahead of Sierra Leone’s multi-tier elections taking place on 7th of March 2018, the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI), Amnesty International and forty local civil society organisations in the country, are calling on the ruling APC, the opposition SLPP and the Republic [Read More]
Elias Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 February 2018 After sports, politics is next in line to whip up’ drama in the lives of people. Good or bad, the hype that follows and surrounds politics has huge implications which should be well managed, because unlike sports, the consequences are often far [Read More]
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2nd February 2018: It is true that in order to create decent quality of life for citizens in society today, requires massive investment in public services. But generating the revenue to pay for these services in a poor country like Sierra Leone is not [Read More]
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