Politics & Law

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]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2021: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, spoke at the 76th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, about the progress his government has made in improving the democratic space, governance, and prosperity of the people of Sierra Leone. In what many [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2021: Yesterday, 23rd September, Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards assured the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Advisory Mission on Elections of the Judiciary’s readiness and firm commitment to promote electoral justice to ensure free, fair and credible elections across the country. Chief Justice [Read More]

Former President Ernest Bai Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2021: The events of the last few days have been very historic for one of Sierra Leone’s, and indeed, one of Africa’s oldest and most successful political parties. The All Peoples’ Congress (APC) of Sierra Leone has endured more than [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph:  22 September 2021: Supreme Court Judge, Justice Alusine Sesay yesterday opened the September High Court Criminal Session in Freetown with 96 Cases – including 12 murder, 23 larceny and 20 robberies among other offences. Yesterday’s ‘High Court Call Over’ looked into cases which have gone through Preliminary [Read More]