Politics & Law

Sierra Leone’s Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee condemns unlawful extension of Netpage passport deal

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2026: In March 2025, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) faulted Sierra Leone’s Immigration Department and the Ministry of Internal Affairs for what can best be described as gross negligence and bastardisation of the 1991 Constitution. This condemnation comes after the renewal and extension [Read More]

Politics & Law

Commonwealth citizens to benefit from stronger legal protections agreed by law ministers

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2026: Commonwealth law ministers concluded their meeting in Fiji last Thursday, 12 February 2026, by committing to new measures aimed at strengthening legal protections for people amid growing democratic, economic and climate pressures. The commitments, set out in an outcome statement issued on 11 February [Read More]

Politics & Law

Constitutional Amendment Bill 2025 and the judicialization of election processes – Op ed

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2026: What Section 7 of the Constitution of Sierra Leone Amendment Bill, 2025 proposes is what I term the judicialization of the election, a dangerous compression of constitutional rights into rigid procedural timelines that may ultimately weaken, rather than strengthen our [Read More]

Politics & Law

Nigeria and UK deepen defence cooperation to mitigate contemporary security challenges

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2026: In a strategic effort to strengthen Nigeria’s response to evolving security challenges through sustained international defence collaboration, the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) General OO Oluyede on 6 February 2026, received Dr Richard Montgomery, the United Kingdom High Commissioner to Nigeria at Defence Headquarters, [Read More]