Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2017 Presidential hopeful – Alie Kabba is calling on all members of the opposition SLPP to support yesterday’s Appeal Court ruling, which requires the party to conduct a re-run of all disputed constituency elections. This is what he said today in a statement: yesterday’s Court [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2017 The arrest of opposition politician – Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray has brought renewed sense of hopelessness and despair in democracy in Sierra Leone. The ruling APC has been criticised for its irrational use of police powers since it took office in 2007, and does not [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 June 2017 The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), yesterday announced that it has agreed to provide $224 million loan to the Koroma government of Sierra Leone, to help the country weather the economic storm that is causing much social and financial hardship for [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2017 Following yesterday’s landmark ruling by the Appeal Court in Freetown, calling on the SLPP party to conduct a re-run of all 39-disputed internal party constituency elections, reactions from across the party have been quite positive. This is what the Julius Maada Bio Media and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 June 2017 Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice of Sierra Leone has told the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph that he is “as eligible to contest for any position within the APC, including that of Flagbearer, as much as any other hopeful,” [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2017 The Court of Appeal in Sierra Leone has today ended months of uncertainty about where the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) should now be heading, if it is to be allowed by the Electoral Commission and the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) to participate [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 June 2017 Last Friday, 2nd of June 2017, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) signed an unprecedented Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that will see Israel investing one billion dollars across 15 countries in the West African sub-region to meet the electricity needs of those countries [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 June 2017 The highest decision-making organ of the ruling APC party of Sierra Leone – the National Advisory Council (NAC), met on Thursday, 1st June, to discuss and agree the rules and guidelines for the election of the party’s senior executive officers, including the Chairman and leader [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2017 A new report on the unacceptably high number of women dying during pregnancy or childbirth in Sierra Leone was launched this week in Freetown. Sierra Leone continues to have one of the world’s highest maternal mortality rates in the world. According to government data, there are an [Read More]
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