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Sierra Leone’s former Vice President Victor Foh acquitted of corruption charges

December 16, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2021: Court of Appeal Judge Reginald Fynn, yesterday acquitted and discharged Sierra Leone’s former Vice President, Victor Bockarie Foh, and two others – Abu Bakarr Carew and Ibrahim Fakeh of all corruption charges brought against them by the Anti-Corruption Commission. Justice Fynn however sentenced first [Read More]

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British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone and FCDO Director visit FCC projects funded by UKAid

December 15, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph; 15 December 2021: I am happy to have spent yesterday afternoon with HE Lisa Cheney, British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone and Madam Kobi Bentley – Director of Development, FCDO as we visited the sites of Freetown City Council (FCC) projects that were [Read More]

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Audit Report exposes serious lapses in governance – President Bio must come clean

December 15, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 11

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 December 2021: Sierra Leone’s Auditor General’s Annual Report for the financial year ending December 2020 which has been viewed with much dread by the government is out, and makes for unpleasant reading. Has President Bio (Photo above) lost the moral high ground in fighting corruption? Just [Read More]

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Dr Samura Kamara and others granted bail

December 15, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 December 2021: High Court Judge Adrian Fisher (Photo) yesterday granted Dr. Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara and three others bail in the sum of Two Billion Leones and two sureties each, at the Anti-Corruption Division of the High Court in Freetown. Saidu Nallo (1st accused), Adikali Foday [Read More]

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Opposition APC presidential aspirant – Samura Kamara in court today on corruption charges

December 14, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2021: Dr Samura Matthew Wilson Kamara – the 2018 presidential candidate for the opposition APC in Sierra Leone, has this morning appeared in court on corruption charges relating to the disappearance of millions of dollars meant for the reconstruction of the Sierra Leone Chancery Building [Read More]

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Sierra Leone police accused of brutaly beating a journalist

December 14, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2021: A TV camera operator working for Sierra Leone’s independent AYV media was attacked by at least eight police officers at their headquarters in Freetown yesterday, when he tried to investigate an outbreak of violence in the east of the city, after a serious accident [Read More]

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Sierra Leone opposition leader Dr Femi Claudius Cole and others  arrested and detained by police

December 13, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 December 2021: Sierra Leone police today arrested and detained the Eastern Regional Chairman of the country’s main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party – Ms Diana Finda Konomanyi and Ms Femi Claudius Cole (Photo above) who is the Chairman of the opposition Unity Party as well [Read More]

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President Bio addresses ECOWAS on roadmap to democratic rule in Guinea

December 13, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 December 2021: Yesterday, Sunday 12 December 2021, President Dr Julius Maada Bio addressed the 60th Ordinary Session of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Authority of Heads of State and Government, reaffirming his support for a return to democracy in Guinea, Conakry. “Sierra Leone [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s mid-term population census hampered by non-payment of staff salary    

December 13, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 December 2021: Statistics Sierra Leone yesterday Sunday, said it has taken steps to ensure that census enumerators across many districts in the country, particularly the Western Area are paid their outstanding salaries. Minister of Planning and Economic Development, Dr. Francis Kai-Kai is said to have spent [Read More]

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