In Focus

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2017 If the whole point of banning jogging along the streets of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown was simply to prevent violence and criminality, then it seems the police may have an ulterior motive, critics of police chief Francis Munu say, after football gang violence erupted [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2017 Today, August 3rd 2017 marks the 185th anniversary of the birth of EDWARD WILMOT BLYDEN (3 August 1832 to 7 February 1912). All over the world from the Caribbean where streets and monuments are named after him – to the USA where whole buildings [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 July 2017 There is mixed reaction to last week’s announcement by Sierra Leone police to arrest any group of people jogging in the streets of the capital Freetown, without first obtaining permission from the police. Many in Sierra Leone say that in the light of rising [Read More]

Claudia Anthony (with additional content by the Sierra Leone Telegraph) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 July 2017 On this glorious day fourteen years ago, a wicked and monstrous rebel war lord by the name of Foday Saybanah Sankoh died of pneumonia in the custody of the Special Court for Sierra Leone. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 July 2017 The battle for leadership and control of the affairs of Sierra Leone’s capital city Freetown has not yet started, but already there are at least three candidates that have appeared in the frame – all from the ruling APC party. Freetown has had its [Read More]

Shirley Walter Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 July 2017 The debate about the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and whether they are likely to be achieved  has begun, after the significant failure of many sub-Sahara African nations – including Sierra Leone, in meeting their Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Two weeks ago, [Read More]

Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI ) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2017 Our findings have revealed that due to very high levels of corruption in the education sector, university students and school going children have come to believe that school or university admission and marks can be [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2017 According to Sierra Leone’s State House Communication Unit, last week president Koroma presented what could be his last and final report on what the government refers to as the President’s Recovery Priorities Programme, which was put in place immediately after the end of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 July 2017 Sierra Leone is slowly catching up with 21st century standards of human rights, including the right of women to wear whatever they choose to wear – including trousers, and enter the precincts of the country’s law courts without being arrested and or assaulted by [Read More]