In Focus

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2017 The Parliament of Sierra Leone last Tuesday, 11th of April, 2017, overwhelmingly approved the appointment of Mr Melron Nicol-Wilson as the country’s new Ombudsman. His appointment to the office of Ombudsman by president Koroma, comes as a replacement for the incumbent Justice Edmond Cowan, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2017 When the vice president of Sierra Leone who is also one of the most influential politicians in the country went to his local electoral ward over a week ago to register his intention to vote at next year’s elections, the Sierra Leone Telegraph asked: [Read More]

Dr. Kandeh Yumkella Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2017 Over the last few months, I have observed that many people do not fully understand why the cornerstone of the peace process was the fate of the thirty-nine (39) plus constituencies where Abass Bundu and Manso Dumbuya created parallel executives and [Read More]

Kerstin Carlson Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2017 On May 30, 2016 an ad hoc tribunal in Dakar found the former Chadian head of state Hissène Habré guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and torture. Part domestic, part international, the hybrid Chambres Africaines Extraordinaires sentenced him to life in prison. Habré’s trial was [Read More]

Sierra Leone telegraph: 24 March 2017 When those elected to run the affairs of state and to manage the complex and sometimes basic needs of society, instead decide to turn their weapons out of anger and frustration at the very people that gave them power, it becomes obvious that they [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2017 As so often the case in Sierra Leone in the past twelve months, there is only one consistent voice of outrage in defence of the poor and oppressed people of Sierra Leone, whose lives are being cut short by those elected to serve them [Read More]

Jonathan Tengbe Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2017 After several letters were sent to all presidential aspirants of the SLPP, and also to the various party stakeholders, we were finally able to hold the first conference at the Bank of Sierra Leone complex. The main aim was for flagbearer aspirants [Read More]

Abdul-Jalilu Ateku Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2017 Black Africa’s first independent nation celebrated its 60th independence anniversary this week. A pioneer in many ways, Ghana was the first country in sub Saharan Africa to secure independence from Britain on March 6, 1957. Ghana’s post-independence experience is also in many ways the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2017 Sierra Leone Presidential hopeful Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella has arrived back in Freetown, after attending the inauguration of the Obasanjo Presidential Library in Abeokuta, Nigeria. In 1941 US President Frankliyn D. Roosevelt dedicated the first presidential library in America. Since then, the establishment of [Read More]