Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 July 2021: President Bio is being accused by cross section of the country’s religious community of using bully tactics, after announcing new covid lockdown measures on national television and radio without consulting the council of religious leaders. The lockdown measures include the banning of religious service [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 July 2021: Meet Franca Jalloh, a mother of three beautiful daughters, a non-profit business executive, an educator, an advocate and most of all, a respected member of the Greensboro community in North Carolina, USA, who is campaigning to win local council election in Greensboro, North Carolina. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 July 2021: The proposed Kinshasa Declaration, launched this week at the Generation Equality Forum in Paris, outlines concrete actions for African Union member countries to advance gender equality in Africa by 2030. The proposed Kinshasa Declaration calls for doubling the number of women’s organizations that can [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 July 2021: President Julius Maada Bio has this evening made a nationwide TV and Radio broadcast, after an exponential rise in the number of recorded Covid cases and deaths. In the last four weeks, more than one thousand people have contracted the virus, according to the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 July 2021: It is difficult to assess the accuracy of the number of Covid related deaths reported by the government of Sierra Leone, in a country where hundreds of deaths are unreported daily to the authorities. In the last week alone, there have been dozens of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2021 Women, Peace and Security (WPS) stakeholders from across West Africa, will meet both physically and virtually, at the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) on July 7th. The conference aims to facilitate fruitful exchanges on the past implementation of the WPS Agenda, its [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 June 2021: The shocking death of the younger brother of the wife of the President of Sierra Leone – Mrs Fatima Bio last week, has sparked controversy and police investigations, after Fatima Bio accused a local beach bar restaurant in the outskirt of Freetown of his [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 June 2021: Mr. Speaker, I write in connection with the above subject and in my capacity as Chairman and Leader of the National Grand Coalition Party (NGC). The NGC’s representation in Parliament comprises four MPs headed by our Parliamentary Leader, the Hon. Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2021: The Sierra Leone Bar Association (SLBA) has held talks with the Minister of Lands and Country Planning on diverse issues, including the current non-signing of survey plans, the unacceptably long delays in inspection of lands by officials before  issuing building permits, and the right [Read More]