Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 Febraury 2021: Editors of the US based Africanist Press – Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman, have today published more damning revelations about Sierra Leone government’s Chief Minister’s alleged financial impropriety. According to this latest story, Chief Minister Professor David Francis’ office accounts, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2021: There are allegations of the beating and stabbing of a young man in the Penguia Chiefdom in Kailahun last week by SLPP supporters, ahead of the hotly contested Constituency 010 bye-election in Kailahun. According to sources, the SLPP candidate took campaigners and police officers [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2021: Speaking in the southern provincial district of Pujehun last Friday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio said that in the next eighteen  months his government will build and furnish a Junior and Senior Secondary School of Excellence exclusively for girls. “It will cater for 300 [Read More]

Saffea Komba: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2021: Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden OOR, whilst addressing the Supreme Court in the matter of her Elections Petition case against the 2018 election of President Bio, has argued against the striking out of her Petition. Representing herself in person, she was speaking on [Read More]

Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2021: Sierra Leone is at cross-roads. For the first time in recent memory the opposition leaders in Parliament are holding the Presidency to account. It seems Chernor Bah and his colleagues in the Africanist Press have caused a seismic shift in our polity, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2021: The outgoing United States Ambassador to Sierra Leone – Maria Brewer, has ended her mission in Sierra Leone. She was at Presidential Lodge in Freetown yesterday, where she met the country’s president – Dr Julius Maada Bio to say goodbye. Speaking to the president, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph 18 February 2021: It is not often that Madam (Canon) Cassandra Garber who is the President of the Krio Descendants Union of Sierra Leone and overseas, comments publicly on matters of State in Sierra Leone. But she has this week broken her silence to join the large [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today concluded his two-day working visit to Conakry, Guinea where he and his Guinean counterpart signed an agreement to re-open the land border that has been closed since early last year. The communique states that: “Based on mutual [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2021: US based Africanist Press Media has today published another seriously incriminating report about grand corruption in the Bio-led SLPP government of Sierra Leone, as the country’s anti-graft agency – the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), is accused of waging a selective war on corruption. The Report [Read More]