Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2020: The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sierra Leone now stands at 10, following the discovery of two new cases today. Yesterday’s 8th case is believed to be a South African lady who has been in quarantine. Yesterday, neighbouring Guinea recorded 18 new cases, [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: 11 April 2020: In a WhatsApp message, purported to have been written by Dr Sylvia Blyden, (Not verified), she appears to praise President Maada Bio “for many aspects of this fight against the outbreak of the Covid-19 in Sierra Leone”. She praises the government’s “proactiveness, farsightedness and alacrity” [Read More]

Kandeh Yumkella MP: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2020: With all due respect to all of us in this noble House, who are all in this forum, a string of press releases from State House, various ministries, departments and the police do not constitute “regulations” for  a State of Public Emergency [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 April 2020: President Bio has today issued a new directive, ordering  the restriction of people movement between districts with effect from midnight Saturday, 11th April 2020, for a period of fourteen days. Although this is not a national lockdown, the restrictions exempt the transportation of goods [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 April 2020: President Julius Maada Bio has today given an account of the successes, challenges and lessons learnt from the three days national lockdown which ended last night, as he encouraged all Sierra Leoneans to help with the increased surveillance at community levels, and for more [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 April 2020: As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Sierra Leone this morning rises to 7, and the people of Sierra Leone end their three days State imposed lockdown, the Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki Sawyerr, is under immense pressure from calls for her [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2020: President Cyril Ramaphosa of the Republic of South Africa, and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) convened a second and follow-up teleconference meeting of the AU Bureau of Heads of State and Government, on 3 April 2020, to discuss the African response to the Covid-19 [Read More]

Patricia Scotland: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2020: Public parks have been gated shut, beaches emptied and stadia deserted, as an unprecedented 2.5 billion people across the world are told to sit at home. Times are tough. The Coronavirus is real and as it spreads its tentacles across the globe [Read More]

Sulaiman Stom Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2020: On the 19th March 2020, the Criminal Investigations Department of the Sierra Leone Police, started its investigation into alleged claims that the Former Defense Minister – Paolo Conteh, walked into State House with his gun, to attend a scheduled meeting with [Read More]