Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 November 2020: The latest Ibrahim Index on African Governance (IIAG) report published by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation yesterday, shows a decline in overall progress across the continent, for the first time since 2010. There has been a decline in security and the rule of law in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2020: President Julius Maada Bio  of Sierra Leone today made good on his promise to review all ongoing cases of criminal and seditious libel in the country’s courts, of which there was only one – that of Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, following his government’s repeal [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2020: The 2020 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG), launched today by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, highlights a decline in African governance performance for the first time since 2010. The 2019 African average score for Overall Governance falls by -0.2 points below that of 2018, [Read More]

Chernoh Alpha M. Bah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2020: Few weeks ago, we reported in the Africanist Press how Leadway Trading Company used containers rather than cubic meters as a unit of measurement thereby violating Section 3 of the Finance (Amendment) Act of 2018, leading to a deliberate undervaluation [Read More]

CHRDI: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 November 2020: Political accountability means that the government, civil servants, and politicians are accountable to the public and legislative bodies such as the legislature in the case of Sierra Leone. Without political accountability, the systems may degenerate into autocracy and dictatorship. (Photo above: Mr Abdul [Read More]

Dauda Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2020: Pathologist Simeon Owizz Koroma last Thursday testified in the ongoing murder trial of journalist Ibrahim Samura that the deceased sustained a fracture to his skull and backbones. He said the fracture resulted from a blunt force to the head, and the cause [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2020: United Nations Deputy Secretary-General (DSG), Ms. Amina J. Mohammed will arrive in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Saturday, 14 November 2020, for a two-day official visit as part of her solidarity mission to West Africa and the Sahel region. The DSG is visiting Nigeria, Niger, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 November 2020: Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards on Tuesday, warned those serving in the country’s Judiciary to desist from bribery, corruption and abuse of office which he said will undermine sustainable reforms and growth of the Judiciary. His warning which is seen by many [Read More]

Concerned Citizen: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2020: Despite Trump’s shameful insistence to turn America’s democracy into a global laughing stock, you have to respect America’s institutions for their independence and strict adherence to their rules. Immediately it became clear that Biden is almost certainly going to win, the Secret [Read More]