Obituary

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2025: The Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone has tonight issued a statement saying it has learned with great sadness of the death of Courtenay Griffiths, KC. Mr Griffiths represented former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor during his war crimes trial before the Special Court [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 June 2025: Tributes are pouring in from across Sierra Leone’s political and social divide, after the reported death yesterday of Dr Kadi Sesay, who is described as a feminist, scholar, politician, and pro-democracy advocate. Dr Kadi Sesay is reported by family sources to have passed away [Read More]

Murtala Mohamed Kamara & Jonah B Mulbah Snr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2024: Johnson gained global attention in 1990 when his rebel forces captured and killed former Liberian President Samuel K Doe. The senator, known as the Godfather of Nimba County, died last Thursday after falling in his home [Read More]

Jesmed F Suma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2023: On Saturday January 7th, 2023, hundreds of Americans and Sierra Leoneans of all works of life including senior political leaders of the State of Maryland converged at the Annapolis area in MD to bid a befitting farewell to our brother and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2022: Pele, the Brazillian football legend passed away peacefully in his sleep in hospital in Brazil yesterday – 29th December 2022, after losing a long battle with cancer, aged 82. The hospital released a statement which read: “The Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein regretfully confirms the [Read More]

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2022: When you die, the good is oft interred with the bones. So said Shakespeare in Julius Caesar. The comments over the death of Veteran Journalist Phillip Neville, have reached a new level of political diatribe and hate. Some misguided members of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 December 2022: Sierra Leone’s veteran journalist and media mogul – Philip Neville, passed away early this morning –  Wednesday, 28th December, 2022 at the Choithram Memorial Hospital in Hill Station, Freetown, after sustaining severe head injuries in a hit-and-run motor bike accident. According to reports, Philip [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2022: Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma yesterday visited the residence of the British High Commissioner in Freetown, where he signed a book of condolence in memory of the late Queen Elizabeth II. The former president drove from his hometown of Makeni to pay [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 September 2022: Britain’s longest-serving monarch and head of the Commonwealth – Queen Elizabeth II, has died aged 96. She passed away peacefully at Balmoral yesterday, Thursday afternoon, two days after appointing the country’s 15th Prime Minister of her 70-year reign, Lizz Truss. Prince Charles who is [Read More]