In Focus

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 April 2026: There are moments in the legislative history of a nation when a single Bill reveals everything about the political culture that produced it. The 2026 National Security and Central Intelligence Bill is one such moment for Sierra Leone. On its face, [Read More]

Grace Yei Moore-Sourie: Siera Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2026: There is a hard truth many of us are not ready to face, which is… The same silence we were forced to learn as children is the same silence destroying us as a nation today. Because the more you look at [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2026: A book by the first Chief Minister in the post-colonial era on governing Sierra Leone should be essential reading for governance experts. In expatiating his views and experience in the Office of Chief Minister, Professor David Francis’s in his book GOVERNING A [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2026: Today Friday 20th March 2026, marks the end of thirty days of fasting for Muslims all over the world, with prayers and celebrations. And in the capital of Sierra Leone – Freetown, where today has been declared a public holiday, the capital’s Mayor Yvonne [Read More]

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2026: In Sierra Leone, public service often ends the way it begins – with a story. Not a balance sheet. Not a report card. A story – told after the fact, polished by memory, and usually centred on one brave figure who [Read More]

John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 March 2026: There was a time not long ago when the streets of Freetown began revealing a disturbing and heartbreaking trend: an alarming number of corpses were being found in public spaces. For any city, such a development is both a humanitarian crisis [Read More]

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2026: In Sierra Leone, national troubles rarely make the headlines. They arrive as errands. A mother plans her morning around whether the tap will run. A student studies by phone torchlight, rationing battery life and hope. A trader budgets for the “extra” [Read More]

Alhaji Umar Modou N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2026: I love my country Sierra Leone so dearly and therefore enjoy all its contradictions. You declare a holiday to mark International Women’s Day and at the same time involved in silencing the voices of women. Voice and agency are fundamental [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 March 2026: Commonwealth Day is being celebrated across the world today, 9th of  March 2026, with people taking part in cultural events, school activities and faith-based services in the 56 member countries. Observed annually on the second Monday in March since 1977, the day brings together [Read More]