Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2021: There has been resounding condemnation of Sierra Leone police brutality,  following Monday’s protest by students at the IPAM campus which became violent, as heavily armed police officers fired teargas and smoke bombs. A young female student – Fatmata Binta Jalloh was stripped by police [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2021: Junior doctors across Sierra Leone yesterday decided to go on strike after a female colleague doctor – Dr. Catherine Jackson-Cole was assaulted by senior government offcials in the ministry of health. Dr Catherine Jackson-Cole was pounced upon at a peaceful protest organised by health [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2021: Sierra Leone’s police force has established a bad reputation for itself in its fight against peaceful civil protests. It is now resorting to beating and removing the tops of female protesters during arrests, before being thrown into open police trucks like sacks of flour, [Read More]

Abdul B Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2021: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Local Government – Mr. Tamba Lamina has been instructed by president Bio to immediately suspend the people’s Mayor – Her Worship the Mayor Mrs Yvonne Aki – Sawyer (OBE). As I write, a committee has been established [Read More]

James Samba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2021: Despite decades of reforms in education especially school improvement initiatives, large number of pupils were still underachieving, failing or being pushed out of school in Sierra Leone. Clearly, a distinctly new approach was needed, the time for a serious government and policymakers [Read More]

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2021: In a bid for the city of Freetown and Kanifing municipality of the Gambia to explore avenues to formalize and strengthen ties with each other, the Mayor of the Freetown City Council, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr last Friday 9th April 2021 signed a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2021: Serious doubts are once again being expressed about the integrity and credibility of Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio who is now caught up in accusations of misogyny, as well as lying about being refused entry into hotels in Japan as president because of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has addressed a cross-section of citizens at the Bintumani Hotel in Freetown, in what his media advisers describe as “the first ever presidential town hall meeting” to be held in the country. The event was moderated by journalist – [Read More]

Dr. David Moinina Sengeh & Jacob Jusu Saffa: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2021: Just over a year ago, Covid-19 drove the world into lockdown, leaving more than one billion children and students in developing countries shut out of school. Many countries cut short the academic year, hundreds of thousands [Read More]