Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 March 2020: As the saying goes – “desperate situation calls for desperate measures”. That is the message from the government of Sierra Leone and from many living in the country, in response to Sierra Leoneans living and working abroad who are now being held in a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March, 2020: Yesterday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio had discussions at State House with the former members of the National Ebola Response Programme, as part of his government’s preparedness for the onset of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country. Sierra Leone, unlike her neighbouring West African [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 March 2020: The presidency of Maada Bio has been accused of many things and everything. But despite these, one can see a lot of snippets that may belie some of these accusations. There is no doubt that most of our normal lives in Sierra [Read More]

Elkass Sannoh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 March 2020: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, yesterday announced the appointment of a new Inspector General of Police, following the retirement of Inspector General Dr Richard Moigbe. The newly appointed Inspector General of Sierra Leone Police, Ambrose M. Sovula, until his appointment [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2020: Executive members of the All Political Parties Association (APPA), yesterday presented a joint communiqué to President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House,  signed by twelve registered political parties – though not all, agreeing to maintain peace and stability in Sierra Leone . Three [Read More]

Dr. Lans Gberie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 March 2020: Former Vice President Solomon Ekuma Berewa, who has died aged 81, was not a great politician. Still less was he a particularly likable or charismatic public figure. Indeed, he was rather humourless, and was rather easily caricatured or misunderstood. But no [Read More]

Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2020: One of Sierra Leone’s vibrant civil society activist, Thomas Moore Conteh, who was arrested on the 5th March 2020 by the police during a peaceful protest by some disenchanted students of the Limkokwing students, appeared in a jam-packed Magistrate Court in Freetown [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio, today held talks at State House in Freetown, with the World Bank Country Director for Sierra Leone, Liberia and Ghana – Pierre Frank Laporte, about the country’s preparedness for any possible Coronavirus outbreak in the country. Presenting the World [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2020: By all accounts, the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) seems to have been doing a good job. NCRA has responsibility for the continuous, permanent and compulsory recording of occurrences and characteristics of vital events including births, deaths, marriages, divorces, nullities, adoptions etc. [Read More]