Politics & Law

ARTICLE 19: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2021: ARTICLE 19 strongly condemns the security forces’ crackdown on the assembly of the Islamic Movement (IMN) in Nigeria also known as the Shiites that reportedly led to the death of at least eight people and police arresting at least 57 others on [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2021: Since coming to power in 2018 the government of president Bio has received over One Billion Dollars in external funding to pay for much needed public services, including healthcare, education and provision of water and electricity. Sierra Leone government debt has risen from Two [Read More]

Mohamed Kutubu Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2021: As the 2023 electioneering campaigns slowly begin in Sierra Leone, there is need to reflect on the campaign promises made by Mr. Julius Maada Bio when he sought the presidency, as well as particular focus on Mrs. Fatima Bio’s insatiable money [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2021: The fourth edition of the Africa Resilience Forum opened yesterday Tuesday, as the continent’s most vulnerable communities confront the triple challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change. An estimated 39 million Africans could slip into extreme poverty this year, as a [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2021: Yesterday Monday, 27th September, I visited the victims of the recent Kroo Bay fire which occurred on 20th September, destroying 137 households and displacing almost 500 people.  Sadly this is the latest of over 20 significant disasters to have afflicted Freetown [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2021: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning, Dr. Turad Senesie last week visited the far east of the capital Freetown where land grabbers have taken control of State lands and squatters occupying public properties. Accompanied by the Director of Surveys and Lands, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 September 2021: The editors of the Africanist Press – Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman have published more damning allegations of serious maladministration by the government of president Bio of Sierra Leone. In their latest story, the Africanist Press accuses the government’s finance [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2021: Last night – Mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, delivered a stunning speech on climate change at the Stuttgart Climate Premiere in Germany, before the start of the premiere of the play “Okozid”. The play is a court-room drama set in the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2021: Last Thursday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone held “a productive bilateral meeting” with the President of Vietnam, Nguyen Xuan Phuc, on the margins of the 76th UN General Assembly in New York, according to Freetown State House report. Bio commended President [Read More]