Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2021: In the past, politicians in Sierra Leone would invoke sections of the notorious Public Order Act that criminalized libel to suppress free speech and the press. Several sections of that Act were repealed in 2020. But the proposed cyber-crime legislation that has been tabled [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2021: The Residual Special Court Prosecutor said today that it is investigating allegations in Liberia and Sierra Leone of unlawful contacts with witnesses who testified before the Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL), including offering bribes to witnesses to recant their previous testimony. In a [Read More]
Lansana Fofanah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2021: The death of John Pombe Magufuli, President of Tanzania, has brought shock waves not only in Africa, but across the world with some countries declaring a national mourning in honour of his benevolent leadership. After serving as a Chemistry and Math teacher, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2021: President Julius Maada Bio yesterday told Sierra Leoneans living in Senegal that it is the collective effort of all Sierra Leoneans to make the country attractive. President Bio was speaking during a town hall meeting with a cross section of members of the Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2021: Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice who also serves as the Chairman of the Council of Legal Education – Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards, yesterday admitted 140 newly qualified lawyers to the Sierra Leone Bar, after successfully passing their Bar final examinations. Introducing the Chairman, Supreme Court [Read More]
Winstanley R. Bankole.Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2021: The last few weeks have heralded a series of scathing, besmirching and wholesomely puerile media outbursts directed more particularly against the Auditor General Mrs. Lara Taylor-Pearce in particular, than the institution (Audit Services Sierra Leone – ASSL) from which she draws [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2021: Former President of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, last Thursday convened a second virtual Round Table meeting under the auspices of the Horasis Community. During the discussions, the former president and Sierra Leonean statesman re-echoed his calls for an African Engineering Peace Corps [Read More]
Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden OOR: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2021: One of the saddest outcomes of the RUF rebel war and ensuing civil strife is the re-writing of this country’s history. The narratives have been so twisted that I sometimes gasp in horror. Many of those who have pushed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2021: Editors of the Africanist Press – Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman have published another damning allegation of corruption and abuse of office at Sierra Leone’s National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT), where according to the editors – millions of dollars [Read More]
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