Politics & Law

Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2021: As Sierra Leoneans we can be quite fickle and so easily manipulated by politicians for their own political ends and personal interests. We are in real danger of elevating the political brouhaha over the Mayor of Freetown’s unfortunate and unguarded comments into [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2021: Africanist Press editors – Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman last night published another shocking report of alleged unbridled corruption and abuse of office by president Bio and his wife Mrs Fatima Bio. According to this latest expose by the Africanist [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2021: Sierra Leone’s National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) continues to lead the response to the Freetown Susan Bay fire disaster that consumed the homes of thousands of slum dwellers. The incident has been classified as a level two national disaster, prompting massive humanitarian support from [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2021: It would have made life much easier for Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr if she had not made those statements captured on audio that seem to have got her into hot waters. On the face of it, many have considered her tribe-related references inappropriate. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2021: Questions are being asked about the whereabouts of over seven Billion Leones that cannot be accounted for by Sierra Leone’s ministry of finance, who in a press statement said that it gave 8.8 billion Leones to the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA), a claim [Read More]

Mahmoud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2021: It appears President Julius Maada Bio has drawn up his victory plan for 2023, and it looks like an enhanced version of the successful plan laid out by his former campaign manager Alie Kabbah in 2018.  But this time around, it [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 March 2021: Yesterday morning, in the wake of the fire disaster that destroyed hundreds of properties, leaving thousands destitute in the Susan Bay slum community in Freetown, Mayor Aki-Sawyerr joined the Director General of the newly formed National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), Lieutenant General (Rtd) Sesay, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 March 2021: On Tuesday, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning, Dr. Turad Senesie visited the Mount Sugar Loaf Community, where a major landslide caused by heavy rains and soil erosion in 2017 killed over a thousand people, most of whom where children sleeping [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2021: President Dr. Julius Maada Bio today responded to the Report on the Targeted Review on Health Governance and Covid -19 Response in Sierra Leone. Speaking to eminent leaders from across the continent at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown, this is what President Bio [Read More]