Dr. Samura M.W. Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 April 2020: Since His Excellency the President, Julius Maada Bio declared a State of Public Health Emergency (SPHE) on March 24, 2020, there has been a plethora of orders from individual state functionaries and various institutions of government restricting our fundamental rights [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 April 2020: Five new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Sierra Leone in the last twenty-four hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 104, as two people are reported to have also recovered from the virus. The total number of those recovered now [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 April 2020: The Emperor Donald J. Trump has reportedly cancelled his daily White House briefings, complaining that its “not worth the time and effort”. And who can blame him? These briefings have not gone his way. We know that he is sympathetic to torture, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2020: Sierra Leoneans are more or less used to the unofficial cancellation of celebrations marking the nation’s Independence Anniversary, and today will go down in history as in the 2014/2015 Ebola pandemic; and in the dark troubling days of the ten-year rebel war which started [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2020: Love her or loathe her, the First Lady Fatima Bio is an enigma. What makes it tellingly so, is the backdrop against which her life has been gauged, scrutinised, vilified and equally glorified at various levels. She is the wife of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2020: Sierra Leone’s Inspector General of Police (IGP) – Ambrose Michael Sovula and the Chief of Defence Staff (CDF) Lieutenant General Brima Sesay, last Sunday were out and about visiting various road checkpoints put in place to enforce the two weeks COVID-19 restrictions on inter-district [Read More]
HRCSL: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 April 2020: On 1st April 2020, the Interim National Coordinator for the COVID-19 Response Team announced on behalf of government, a three-day lockdown which took place on 5th – 7th April 2020. This was in a bid to track, trace and break the chain of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: Africans living in China are facing appalling discrimination and violation of human rights as China tightens the screws, in its effort to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus in the country. But the Chinese are now experiencing huge condemnation from citizens across the [Read More]
SLAJ: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2020: The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) is deply concerned about the inhumane treatment of journalist Fayia Amara Fayia, in the hands of some personnel of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF), the Sierra Leone Police (SLP), and the Kenema District [Read More]
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