Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2021: Last Thursday, 7th October, President Bio received a report on the findings of the Complaints and Dispute Resolution Committee that was mandated to investigate land disputes in the Western Area from April 2018 to January 2021. Committee chairman, Alhaji Mutada Sesay, who was representing [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2021: As President Bio of Sierra Leone who was democratically elected by the people of Sierra Leone in 2018 after he was branded “a brutal military junta leader” following the extra-judicial killing of dozens of people in 1992 in a coup d’état that brought down [Read More]

Office of Former President Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2021: Former President Ernest Bai Koroma has today Tuesday, 12th October, held a closed – door meeting with the British High Commissioner to Sierra Leone, Ms Lisa Chesney. This afternoon’s meeting is part of a flurry of diplomatic engagements the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2021: The newly appointed European Union (EU) Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Manuel Muller, has today, Tuesday 12th October, paid a courtesy call on Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma, at his Goderich residence in Freetown. The EU is one of Sierra Leone’s strongest partners [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone telegraph: 11 October 2021: In December 2019, I had the privilege of meeting former President of Liberia, Her Excellency Madame Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Palm Springs, California where we were both speakers at #TEDWomen. Two months later I had the honour of being invited [Read More]

Alim Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2021: SLPP government stands indicted – no hiding place for NaCSA boss and the chief minister. Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad are currently in  doubt over the on-going investigation of an alleged ritual murder matter involving an employee of the National Commissioner [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2021: Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards last Friday assured President Bio  that the Judiciary under his watch will fully apply the Abolition of Death Penalty Act of 2021. “We in the Judiciary note the change and are ready to apply the new law, [Read More]

Jarrah Kawusu-Konte & Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9th October 2021: Following former President Dr Ernest Bai Koroma’s decoration with the award of the Medal of Merit in Leadership by the African Bar Association (AfBA) on Monday 4th October, instant, commendations and congratulatory messages have been pouring from across [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2021: Sierra Leone has today joined the long list of nations that no longer use State retributive justice to take away the lives of those that are found guilty of committing murder, after President Julius Maada Bio signed the expunging of the death sentence into [Read More]