Yoni Emmanuel Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: On 27 August 2026, the High Court issued an interim injunction restraining APC National Chairman Osman Foday Yansaneh and National Secretary General Lansana Dumbuya from performing their executive functions. On paper, this may look like a procedural order intended to preserve [Read More]
Albert David KAMARA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: What is unfolding inside the SLPP today is not politics, it is a full‑scale institutional hijack. The First Lady’s nationwide political parade, powered by state vehicles, state security, public funds, government media, and a carefully planted network of loyalists inside the [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: President Julius Maada Bio may soon face one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency: whether to sign a constitutional amendment into law, a step already shadowed by a serious procedural dispute before the Supreme Court. This is not merely [Read More]
Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: In an open letter dated 18th August 2026, lawyer Melron Nicol-Wilson argues that the passage of the 1991 Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2025 on 10th August 2026 was unconstitutional. The central objection is that the Speaker wrongly applied Section 91(1), which governs ordinary [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2026: Following last week’s political showdown in Sierra Leone’s parliament which saw the opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party, walking out of debate to amend the country’s 1991 Constitution that will see the introduction of sweeping changes, including the lowering of the voting threshold for [Read More]
Albert Olangba Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2026: A developing constitutional dispute in Sierra Leone is raising serious questions about the future of the country’s multiparty democracy, the independence of its electoral system and the safeguards governing amendments to the 1991 Constitution. The controversy follows the Sierra Leone Government’s [Read More]
Gibril Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2026: Sierra Leoneans have every right to ask uncomfortable questions about President Julius Maada Bio’s latest cabinet reshuffle. At the centre of those questions is the appointment of Karefa A. F. Kargbo as Minister of Finance, at a moment when the country is [Read More]
Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2026: For peace to reign in any country, the President and his followers must love and cherish peace. Peace does not begin in the streets. It begins at the very top. A country can have peace agreements, security forces, courts, constitutions and diplomatic [Read More]
Dr Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2026: I have read the statement issued by the All Peoples Congress on the Constitution of Sierra Leone (Amendment) Bill 2025. I support it. I support the constitutional guarantee of a minimum of thirty percent representation for women in political [Read More]
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