In Focus

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 January 2017   Rights advocacy group in Sierra Leone – Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI), last week published what it says is a damning report alleging serious corruption within the country’s anti-graft agency – the ACC. According to the CHRDI report, “…the ACC [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 January 2017 When the three Wise men visited baby Jesus at this time of the year, they brought with them gold, frankincense and myrrh. The three gifts had a spiritual meaning: gold as a symbol of kingship on earth, frankincense (incense) as a symbol [Read More]

Alie Kabba Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2017 Fellow Sierra Leoneans, I want to wish you all a truly happy and hope-filled 2017. May the peace and blessings of the Almighty abundantly flow in the direction of those who are genuinely doing everything to make our country a better place [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 December 2016  Every year as the world says goodbye to the end of the year and welcomes the new, after Santa Claus has come and gone, it seems some people’s brain go into overdrive, as they struggle to reconcile reality from fiction. It is also a [Read More]

Benjamin Talton Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2016 A Donald Trump presidency has grave implications for US relations with Africa. His meteoric political ascension ushers in an era of right-wing domestic  extremism  and  international disregard. Trump has exhibited an unabashed lack of interest in Africa. This is a continent where numerous [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2017 The growing sense of disillusionment across Sierra Leone’s social and political landscape is fast becoming palpable. From official to unofficial, private to public, and all along the diversified strata of our society, there are pockets of dissatisfaction that is slowly simmering under [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2016 Any society which neglects its culture is bound to fail. African societies were founded on the principles of society cohesion, where the left hand knew what the right was doing. With kingdoms, Chieftains, fiefdoms and clans, historians would have you believe that [Read More]

Albert Momoh Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2016   As the results of the crucial constituency elections come flying in, amidst a thickening cloud of ‘camp-ish’ recriminations, the rhetoric keep rocketing high where goodwill should have taken firmer grip and served as a safe landing platform to cool down frayed [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 November 2016 A twenty-three year old female student – Theresa Mbomaya, was last weekend arrested and detained at the maximum security prison in Freetown, for sharing a WhatsApp message she herself did not create. According to the Koroma government, she committed a crime against the state, [Read More]