Human Rights Watch (HRW): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2025: Malawians will go to the polls on September 16 to vote for the president and Members of Parliament. At this juncture, Malawi finds itself in an unenviable environment with questions about the impartiality of its electoral commission, and the protection [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 September 2023: President Bio of Sierra Leone, his ruling SLPP party leadership, heads of security forces, and officials of the country’s electoral commission are under serious pressure, after the United States government two days ago announced that it is imposing a visa ban on all those [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 August 2023: The United States government has today announced that it has placed visa restrictions on all “those believed to be responsible for, or complicit in undermining democracy in Sierra Leone, including through the manipulation or rigging of the electoral process; intimidation of voters, election observers, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 August 2023: The military in the West African State of Gabon have taken power from President Ali Bongo (Photo above), after the country’s electoral commission declared Bongo the winner of presidential election which took place last week. The opposition leader has disputed the results of the [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2023 US Ambassador to Sierra Leone – David Reimer has today made it clear to the Bio-led government of Sierra Leone that the United States government has not and does not accept the results of the June 24 presidential and general elections announced [Read More]
Patrick Merloe: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 July 2023: Held a day apart, elections in two widely differing countries illustrate the struggle for genuine elections versus entrenched elites seeking to impose their will over the people’s choices. Guatemala’s June 25 election saw reformer Bernardo Arévalo come in second, earning a surprise [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2023: As the post-election political crisis continues to bedevil President Bio’s government and threatening to cause economic turmoil, Western countries including the European Union are refusing to endorse the election results announced by the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) last month. (Photo above: President [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 July 2023: As elections crisis in Sierra Leone rumbles on following the controversial declaration of President Bio as the winner for another term of office, pressure is mounting on the country’s electoral body to publish all Results Reconciliation Forms (RRFs) for all polling stations to prove [Read More]
Sylvanus Koroma: 18 July 2023: It is now over three weeks since the June 24 Elections ended in Sierra Leone and even with the heavy demand from contestants and very key observers (including the International Community) for the publication of the disaggregated results by the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone [Read More]
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