In Focus

John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2026: Sierra Leone must align local government mandates with adequate funding to protect service delivery, accountability and democratic participation (Photo above: Mayors of local councils). The figures are staggering. Freetown City Council alone spends approximately Le1 billion (old Leones), equivalent to Le1 [Read More]

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2026: After the law kneels, institutions follow. (Photo above: President Bio of Sierra Leone). After institutions kneel, character bends. And when character bends long enough before power, the next to kneel is the nation’s soul. That is the final tragedy of orders [Read More]

Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 July 2026: Thabo Mbeki’s Africa Day Lecture on May 26, 2026 at the Thabo Mbeki Foundation in Johannesburg is a major pushback against the current xenophobia by Black South Africans against African immigrants—a phenomenon that has generated the term Afrophobia. It systematically throws the [Read More]

John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 June 2026: This week, Freetown Mayor and C40 Cities Global Co-Chair, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, championed the vital role of cities in delivering climate solutions at the London Climate Action Week 2026. Key engagements included a closed-door roundtable with the United Nations Secretary-General António [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2026: President John Dramani Mahama has called for a new phase of global engagement on reparatory justice, urging the international community to move beyond acknowledgment of historical injustices towards meaningful action, truth-telling, and reconciliation. Speaking at the opening of the Next Steps High-Level Consultative Conference [Read More]

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2026: Sierra Leone’s former Chief Minister and Foreign Minister – Professor David Francis, has written a book. It is titled Governing a Poor Country. Do not be fooled by the academic polish. This is not a study. It is a defence. Francis [Read More]

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 June 2026: In 2008, following the unauthorised landing of a plane carrying cocaine at Sierra Leone’s Lungi international airport, the country’s response was a radical strike against impunity: a Certificate of Emergency to enact the National Drugs Control Act. The Act redeemed the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 07 June 2026: The Commonwealth Observer Group to the 30 April 2026 general elections in Antigua and Barbuda has released its final report, calling for urgent reform of constituency boundaries while commending the overall peaceful and transparent conduct of the polls. The Group reiterated concerns first raised [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2026: As drugs addiction among young people in Sierra Leone continues to destroy lives and impact the economy and the wider society, Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr met some of these youth to talk about their lives. “A sad reality is that hundreds of kush [Read More]