Politics & Law

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2026: “The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig from pig to man again, but already it was impossible to say which was which”. This excerpt from George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” was published on 17 August 1945. One [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 June 2026: This has been a troubled week for Mrs Fatima Bio, the wife of Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, desperately defending her position on female circumcision, following a bruising interview with the BBC the previous week, answering questions about her relationship with Europe’s most [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2026: Beyond the sad fact that President Julius Maada Bio and his SLPP government have brought shame and suffering to the poor people of Sierra Leone who are ranked one of the poorest in the world, in a country that has no business being poor [Read More]

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 07 June 2026: The removal of Auditor-General Lara Taylor-Pearce on 20 December 2024 was not the conclusion of a lawful accountability process. It was the last act of a three-year constitutional bypass. While the Executive initiated the assault and Parliament sanitized it, the failure [Read More]

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 June 2026: The June 6 Sierra Leone Bar Association (SLBA) election is existential. Beyond administrative stakes, the legal profession faces a crisis of legitimacy. The “Kenema Debacle” was the alarm; the real threat is the silent surrender to executive gravity. The Judiciary is [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 June 2026: There are worrying reports in Freetown of police officers yesterday Monday afternoon, storming the office of Voice of Salone Newspaper and requested that the Editor accompany them to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to make a statement regarding the newspaper’s publication titled, “Mystery Surrounds [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 June 2026: The Dutch government is planning to move a motion at the European parliament caling on the European Union to stop sending development aid to Sierra Leone, because of President Bio’s complicity in the growing global narcotics trade and protection of cocaine baron – Bolle [Read More]

Abdul Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 June 2026: Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister’s remarks in UK reflect a deeply concerning attempt to minimize the growing international narcotics concerns associated with Sierra Leone. (Photo above: President Bio and Chief Minister Sengeh). It is troubling that, rather than directly addressing the serious reputational [Read More]

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]