Josef Skrdlik / Oliver Dunn (OCCRP): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2026: Wife of Sierra Leone’s President – Fatima Bio is again under fire as she holds onto her subsidized flat more than a year after OCCRP and The Times exposed her tenancy at the property. A British lawmaker has [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2026: While Many in Sierra Leone are struggling to put food on their table and cope with the daily grind of electricity power cuts that is crippling the nation’s hospitals and small businesses, President Julius Maada Bio has once again arrived in London, this time [Read More]
Yankuba Gbassa Kai-Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2026: Given the unprecedented frequency of President Bio’s overseas trips to attend meetings, there is significant public concern that public funds are being wasted. Critics accuse him of seeking validation abroad while failing to deliver for the people at home. Why not [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2026: Sunday, 10th May 2026. Your Excellency President Julius Maada Bio President of the Republic of Sierra Leone State House, Freetown. Dear Mr. President, AN OPEN LETTER TO HIS EXCELLENCY PRESIDENT JULIUS MAADA BIO ON THE GROWING INTERNATIONAL DRUG TRAFFICKING LINKS TO SIERRA LEONE As [Read More]
Mohammed Kroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2026: On 12 May 2026, the British High Commission in Freetown issued a public statement distancing itself from a report in Sierra Leone’s Global Times newspaper. The report had alleged that unnamed UK diplomats warned that visa applications from twenty-three Sierra Leoneans — [Read More]
Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 May 2026: When the government slipped the National Security and Intelligence Act 2026 through the cracks, they told us it was to safeguard Sierra Leone’s internal and external security. The Act created a “War Cabinet.” (Part II Section 4(2)(e)) Seated at this table [Read More]
Bai Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: On behalf of the West West District of the council APC affiliate groups, we are appalled but not surprised by the international report of a record cocaine seizure linked to a vessel from Sierra Leone. This is the direct consequence of over 8 years of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 May 2026: The Sierra Leone Parliamentary Female Caucus has intensified national advocacy for gender inclusion and women’s rights within the ongoing constitutional review process through a two-day engagement held on Thursday, 7th May 2026, at Committee Room One, Parliament Building in Freetown. The engagement, co-funded by [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2026: The European Union in Sierra Leone on Monday held an “insightful meeting with the leadership of the main opposition All People’s Congress party (APC)”, according to EU Ambassador – Jancek Jankowski, urging the government and the opposition APC to honour the eight points resolution [Read More]
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