Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2020: The International Civil Aviation Organization’s West and Central Africa Regional Office (WACAF), Dakar has provided remote technical assistance to Sierra Leone in the implementation of the 2019 Universal Security Audit Program (USAP) Corrective Action Plan (CAP) in Aviation Security and Facilitation. The three-day technical [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2020: Founder and leader of the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) party in Sierra Leone – Charles Francis Margai, has written to president Julius Maada Bio – using the country’s Right to Access Information Act No. 2 of 2013 , asking the president to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2020: The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) yesterday urged Sierra Leoneans to demonstrate unwavering support for ongoing anti-corruption efforts in the country. Writing in a statement published yesterday, CARL said that the scourge of corruption remains a binding constraint to the country’s [Read More]
Article 19: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2020: Two weeks ahead of the presidential election, ARTICLE 19 warns that the government of Guinea by appointing a President of the media regulatory authority ‘Haute Autorité de Communication (HAC)’ has taken steps that undermine the independence of the media. The new Parliament [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 October 2020: Two weeks ago, leaders of the West African regional block – ECOWAS, agreed to continue their economic embargo imposed on Mali after the country’s military leaders overthrew the government and arrested the president. But since then, there has been a gradual return to normality, [Read More]
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6th October 2020: Again, Ernest Bai Koroma and his fellow All People’s Congress have cast a shadow on the Sierra Leonean project, reminding us just how fragile – some might say flawed – our institutions and constitutional order is. We are a country of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2020: President Bio has today suspended all civil servants and public officials accused “of acting improperly with respect to the use of public funds” by the Commission of Inquiry. Two of those affected by the president’s decision, are his minister of agriculture – Dennis Vandi [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2020: The U.S. embassy in Freetown, Sierra Leone today published a security alert advising its staff and American citizens to avoid the central districts of Freetown the country’s capital, and Makeni in the north – hometown of the former president Ernest Bai Koroma. According to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s speaker of parliament – Dr Abass Bundu, has reacted badly to perception survey results published by two of the country’s most reputable civil society groups, which show that parliamentarians are the second most corrupt officials in Sierra Leone after police officers. (Photo [Read More]
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