Politics & Law

Ambassador Maria Brewer: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 08 January 2021: The United States Congress has completed its Constitutionally mandated count of the Electoral College vote and affirmed the election of Joseph R. Biden, Jr. and Kamala D. Harris.  They will be sworn into office and a peaceful transfer of power that [Read More]

April Simpson: Center for Public Integrity: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 08 January 2021: “Not since the War of 1812 has our Capitol seen a mass breach by armed combatants. We only begin to scratch the surface this week of understanding how a mob of white supremacists, waving Confederate flags and incited [Read More]

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 08 January 2021: Questions are today being asked about the credibility of evidence presented by Sierra Leone’s Covid Response body – NaCOVERC to the country’s auditor’s, whose 2019 Report found massive evidence of misappropriation of public funds. Many are also questioning the validity of the [Read More]

ACC Publicity Office: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 07 January 2021: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) hereby informs the general public that in addition to the identification and recovery of all 47 Laptops that were stated to be missing in the COVID-19 Audit Report 2020, it has also received the sum of Le [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 January 2021: In the last two days – Monday and yesterday Tuesday, Sierra Leone recorded over 56 new cases amid fears of an exponential rise in the transmission of the covid-19 virus, as the country’s Chief Minister – Dr David Francis (Photo above) and other senior [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 January 2021: Twenty-two years ago, Sierra Leone was up in flames. The capital Freetown was under siege, as rebels belonging to the Revolutionary United Force (RUF) and former renegade soldiers of the country’s army – the AFRC, turned their guns and machetes on innocent civilians. Thousands [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 January 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today granted Sierra Leonean citizenship to 22 African Americans who traced their origin to Sierra Leone through DNA results, most of them with roots to Bo and Tonkolili districts. Handing over Sierra Leone’s passports to the newly pronounced [Read More]

ACC Public Relations Office: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 January 2021: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) hereby informs the general public that it has recovered the sum of Five Million, Two Hundred and Sixteen Thousand, Four Hundred Leones (Just over Four Hundred Pounds Sterling), which, according to the COVID-19 Audit Report 2020, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 January 2021: President Julius Maada Bio last Friday ordered the release of hundreds of prisoners across the country who are serving sentence for various crimes, including the country’s former minister of defence – retired Major Palo Conteh. Palo Conteh was serving a two-year jail-term, after he [Read More]