Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 March 2018: With less than a week to the March 7 elections, Sierra Leoneans have been asking whether any party will get 55% of the votes to avoid a second round of voting. A document believed to have been drawn up by the All [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 March 2018: Yesterday’s Supreme Court petition hearing, which is to determine whether Kandeh Yumkella can contest next week’s elections, was postponed to today, 1st March 2018. However, the Sierra Leone Telegraph has learnt that the hearing will now take place next Monday, 5th of March. Is [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2018: Yesterday, 27th February 2018 was the final NGC campaign rally in Freetown. It was declared a Freedom March. But there was none of the Paopa grandstanding about one million people, being asked to flood the streets of Freetown. It was simply the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2018: Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court is sitting today to hear and make judgement on a petition filed by the ruling APC, requesting that the court declare Dr. Kandeh Yumkella unqualified to contest the presidential and general elections taking place next week. If the petition is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2018: Last week’s elections campaign violence in a northern district of Sierra Leone, three weeks before elections are held in the country, does not augur well for Sierra Leone’s democracy and its hard won peace, after ending ten years of brutal civil war. Although there [Read More]
Sankara Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2018: If Kandeh Yumkella loses the presidential election, ignorance, illiteracy and tribalism would be the main reasons behind such a fiasco. Otherwise, Kandeh Yumkella is the best man for the job. I have seen several rotten governments in Sierra Leone, and the political [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2018 An ECOWAS Mission of fifty-five election observers have arrived in Sierra Leone for the country’s March 7 presidential, parliamentary and local council elections. The ECOWAS Observation Mission is led by Liberia’s former Interim President, Professor Amos Sawyer. According to a press release from ECOWAS, [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2017 The general election in Sierra Leone is slowing inching its way to the climax. The declarations have been made. The registrations, aspirations, conventions, and nominations have all concluded. The campaign season is now in full swing. But amidst turning and turning in [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2018 Sierra Leone has made tremendous progress over the years, especially in sustaining the gains she had made in the areas of peace, socio-economic growth and with resounding democratic credentials. Politically, the country continues to enjoy an enabling environment, with multiparty democracy [Read More]
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