Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2020: Yesterday Thursday, president Dr Julius Maada Bio commissioned four inshore patrol boats at the White Man’s Bay Navy Headquarters in Murray Town, Freetown. Speaking at the ceremony to mark the occasion, Commander of the Maritime Wing, Captain Navy Philip Juana, said that the role [Read More]

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission (NEC) has finally published the date for the conduct of the controversial Parliamentary re-run bye election in constituency 110 which was marred by violence. It comes over a year after the last polling results were cancelled. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today launched the 2020 Poppy Remembrance Week in honour of all military servicemen and women who lost their lives in the line of duty. Co-Chairman Remembrance Day Planning Committee, Commissioner Rashid Thomas II, said remembering the Poppy Day [Read More]

APC Legal Communications: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2020: Lawyers representing the APC Members of Parliament that were removed from Parliament immediately after the general elections in 2018, yesterday October 20th 2020, told the Court of Appeal that they have instructions from their clients not to file synopsis or argue [Read More]

Judiciary of Sierra Leone Communications Unit: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2020: Yesterday, the Court of Appeal presided over by Hon. Justices Sengu Koroma JSC, Ansumana Ivan Sesay JA and Tonya Barnette J. struck out the election petition case brought forward by Hon. Osman A. Timbo and nine others on [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 October 2020: After the failure of successive governments of Sierra Leone to convince the US government funded Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to include Sierra Leone in their short list of African countries that have received hundreds of millions of dollars in grant-aid to help pay for [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s minister of planning and economic development, Dr. Francis Kai-Kai has reiterated his call for effective coordination, ownership and people cantered processes that are critical to achieving the objectives of the government’s Medium-Term National Development Plan (MTNDP) 2019-2023 at the local community level. [Read More]

Mubin Adewumi Bakare: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2020: Cote d’Ivoire is one of six ECOWAS member states scheduled to hold elections in 2020. The 31 October vote will be the fifth presidential election since the death of the ‘pere foundateur de la nation’ (father of the nation) Felix Houphouet [Read More]

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 October 2020: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established in 2002 urged the Government of Sierra Leone to give “serious consideration” to the creation of a “new constitution”, in order to contribute to human rights and democracy in the country. All the political [Read More]