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Politics & Law

The people of Kono must use their votes to remove APC from office in 2018

January 4, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Noorudin KaiKai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2018: I am of the opinion that Freetown and Kono would probably decide who gets to be President in the upcoming elections, because they hold the highest percentage of swing voters in the country. However, I do not believe that the APC party [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone gets second woman to ever head a political party’s regional operations

January 4, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2018: The Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has yesterday, January 3rd 2018, constitutionally elected Mrs. Emma Kowa-Jalloh, as the party’s new Southern Regional Chairperson. This was after the previous holder Edward Soluku stepped down to contest his old parliamentary seat in [Read More]

Election Watch

Maada Bio to end speculation about presidential running mate

January 3, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 January 2018: After months of dithering and shuffling of chairs on the decks, the opposition SLPP will tomorrow Thursday, 4th January 2018, announce the name of the party’s presidential running mate to accompany Julius Maada Bio to the March 7, 2018 elections. Rumours are rife as [Read More]

Economy & Business

Four months on – Sierra Leone mudslide survivors have nowhere to live

January 2, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Agence France-Presse (AFP): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 January 2018 Four months after the landslides that killed her husband and more than a thousand others, Mariama Kamara has returned to the mountainside that collapsed onto their home to live in an unfinished building. Kamara is one of the hundreds of Sierra [Read More]

Election Watch

President Koroma delivers his final New Year’s address to the people of Sierra Leone

January 1, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2018: As presidential and general elections approach, president Koroma has spent the last few weeks traversing the entire country, in what has been described by the ruling APC party as a ‘thank you tour’. But his ‘thank you tour’ is controversial and causing political tension. [Read More]

Politics & Law

Samuel Paul Itam is to contest the Freetown mayoral election for NGC

December 30, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2018 Among the flurry of big announcements coming out of the offices of the opposition National Grand Coalition (NGC) in Freetown this week, is the decision by the party to nominate Mr. Samuel Paul Itam as the party’s candidate for the 2018 Freetown Mayorship election. [Read More]

Election Watch

Kandeh Yumkella is a man who can lead – a man of purpose and conviction – says Andrew Keili

December 30, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2017 Yesterday, Friday, 29th December 2017 – just four days after Christmas was celebrated across the World – signifying a rebirth; in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the opposition National Grand Coalition (NGC) party announced the name of the man who will run the final lap in [Read More]

Obituary

Sierra Leone loses a great grandad of the country’s post-independence politics

December 29, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2017 The Sierra Leone Telegraph regrets to report the sad death of Professor Solomon AJ Pratt, who passed away peacefully yesterday, Thursday, 28 December 2017, at 5:50 pm in London. He was 97 years old. Professor Solomon AJ Pratt, who is commonly known as Jolliboy [Read More]

Breaking News

Kandeh Yumkella chooses Andrew Keili as presidential running mate

December 29, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 11

Anthony Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2017 Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, National Grand Coalition (NGC) presidential nominee has named Engineer Andrew Keili as his running mate for the upcoming Sierra Leone elections, slated for March 7, 2018. Today’s announcement has ended weeks of speculation, and effectively sets the stage [Read More]

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