Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2025: In Sierra Leone, free speech is not a Western abstraction. It is a lived and dangerous aspiration, often bruised by the whims of the powerful and betrayed by the very institutions meant to protect it. At stake is not just the [Read More]
Mahmoud Ali Youssouf: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2025: Today, we celebrate African Union Day with pride and renewed commitment to our shared vision of a united, prosperous, and peaceful Africa. This day commemorates the Sirte Declaration of 9 September 1999, when African leaders agreed to establish the African Union. [Read More]
Dr. Columba Michael Joe Blango: Sierra Leone Telegraph: I have spent the past five weeks in Sierra Leone, mostly in Freetown, with short journeys to other parts of the country. The picture I carry with me is layered, contradictory, and deeply troubling. On the surface, there is an image of [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2025: “Democracy is not a spectator sport – It is a shared inheritance that must be defended by all.” The term imperial presidency was once an American cautionary tale – an oxymoron meant to warn against the overconcentration of power in the [Read More]
Syl Cheney-Coker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2025: With the failure of so-called intellectualism in helping to shape Siera Leone’s public morality, there is no point dwelling on the remaining aspects of the disastrous Stevens’ years; except that, with the grandiloquent extravagance for the OAU convention, he ensured that this [Read More]
Syl Cheney-Coker: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: It was inevitable. This fall from grace, our descent into the whirlpool of amorality, after our independence from colonialism. It was inevitable that we would allow the best inherited virtues, institutions and laws to collapse, after they fell into the hands of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 July 2025: Weeks after governments promised bold action to protect the ocean at the UN Ocean Conference in Nice (June 2025), the International Seabed Authority (ISA) Council and Assembly meetings have concluded with no moratorium on deep-sea mining and a widening gap between promises and performance. [Read More]
The Youth Charter: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 July 2025: This pan-African tribute charts the journey of Madiba, freedom fighter, reconciler, and visionary, whose belief in the power of sport helped shape the very foundations of the modern Sport for Development and Peace (SDP) movement. From the resistance and unity forged [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura (Switzerland): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2025: I’m very sad to learn about Kadi Sesay’s passing. She was not in good health after the massive stroke she suffered about ten years ago. The tribute that is in circulation (“Farewell to a Trailblazer—Dr. Kadi Sesay (1949-2025)”) accurately summarises her [Read More]
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