Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 June 2021: Concerns are growing among Sierra Leone’s international development partners over the government’s inability to effectively implement much needed development programmes, despite hundreds of millions of dollars being pumped into the country to help the Bio-led government address growing poverty and inequalities. Opposition political parties [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2021: Sierra Leone’s Bank Governor, Professor Kelfala M. Kallon, the man that many in Sierra Leone had pinned much hope on, of helping the government turn the economy around but has so far failed, is in deep trouble with the judiciary after accusing the country’s [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki -Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 June 2021: We are thrilled to expand our Urban Farming initiative to an additional 200 women-headed households in Ojuku Junction and Kamayama. This has been done with funding from UN Habitat and implementation through CRS, FEDURP (the Slum Dwellers Association) and COHDISAPA. [Read More]

Diaspora Unity Campaign Group: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2021: The government of Sierra Leone is repressive and is denying and preventing citizens from exercising their constitutional right to host public protests, instead using the police to crack down and detain anyone who dares. Therefore, the Diaspora Unity Campaign Group [Read More]

Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden OOR: Siera Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2021: In the midst of accolades being showered on Sierra Leone’s President Bio as a so-called “Champion of Free Speech”, it is a fact that a young member of the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party, Mr. Michael Magba [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 June 2021: Last Wednesday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio was recognised as Press Freedom Champion by the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), whose leadership paid tribute to his government’s repeal of the 1965 criminal libel laws which have been used by successive governments – including [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2021: A disgraceful video showing a Racist Chinese worker in Sierra Leone, West Africa, violently attacking a Sierra Leonean employee has not only gone viral but has attracted massive condemnation and calls for the Chinese worker to be arrested, charged to court, imprisoned, and then [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2021: Yesterday, Sierra Leone’s Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) Mohamed Konneh, presented his annual report for 2020 and strategic plan for 2020–2024 to President Bio. Mohamed Konneh said that the 2020 report reflected a significant milestone in the evolution [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2021: The World Bank yesterday announced that it has approved $8.5 million grant in additional financing to support affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines in Sierra Leone. Early this year, Sierra Leone received 296,000 doses in total, with China supplying 200,000 doses,  and 96,000 [Read More]