Politics & Law

Lansana Fofanah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2021: Demonstrating leadership by example, the President of Sierra Leone, His Excellency, Julius Maada Bio, his Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, and key government officials are among the first Sierra Leoneans to take the first dose of newly arrived Coronavirus vaccines. This [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 March 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today shown leadership by taking the first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine at the launching of the country’s Covid-19 vaccination programme held in State House, Freetown. The President led a throng of other high-profile politicians, including Vice President [Read More]

Joe B. Swarray: 14 March 2021: This is just plain common sense. The law and the letters speak for themselves. Audit service is independent. The law says so and the Government lawyers have said so. Former Attorney General Kamara said so. Solicitor General Martina Koroma also wrote that the Audit [Read More]

Concerned Sierra Leoneans: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 March 2021: We write to formally draw your attention to our growing concerns with respect to the unmitigated violations of human, civil and political rights, and the industrial scale corruption within the echelons of the current government led by President Julius Maada Bio. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2021: The long-awaited investigations by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Sierra Leone, into allegations of corruption in the county’s parliament have ended and the report is now out. Though the conclusion of the report is clear, it is likely to trigger further debate. According to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2021: The High Court in Freetown, presided by Justice A. K. Musa, yesterday acquitted and discharged former Mayor of Freetown – Mr. Herbert George-Williams and Abu Bakarr Daramy, who were accused of murder and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm, following the death of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 March 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio today joined the First Lady – Fatima Maada Bio and other eminent Sierra Leonean women to discuss “Women in Leadership”, at a video conference commemorating International Women’s Day. Mrs Bio said that the women of Sierra Leone are pleased [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 March 2021: Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Lands yesterday announced, “It has observed that while the Ministry is in the process of establishing a dispute resolution committee to address the overwhelming concerns raised by the public over the manner in which lands were administered or allocated, certain [Read More]

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2021: The Auditor General of Sierra Leone has come under very serious attack from the Ministry of Finance. Investigation mounted by this author, reveal a consistent pattern in the Finance Ministry to exert “control” over the office of the Auditor General in order [Read More]