Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 May 2020: Sources close to the family of Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, who is the former social welfare minister in the Koroma led APC government, have confirmed in the last hour that Dr Blyden has been arrested by armed police officers, who arrived at her residence [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 May 2020: The political fallout between Sierra Leone’s ruling SLPP and the main opposition APC over the killing of eleven prisoners, with dozens more injured, has begun. It started yesterday when the chairlady of the ruling SLPP Women’s Wing – Fatmata Sawaneh , spoke in an audio [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2020: There is heightened tension and heavy presence of armed military security in Freetown today, as the aftermath of yesterday’s rioting by prisoners at the country’s main prison located in the west of the capital unfolds. Dozens of prisoners were gunned down by heavily armed [Read More]
Alhaji M. B. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2020: Sierra Leone has set a deadline for all its recalled diplomats who are still abroad to report at the Foreign Ministry in Freetwon on or before 31st July, 2020, according to a circular from the Office of the Director General, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 April 2020: In the last few hours, there have been serious rioting and shooting at the male correctional Pademba Road prison in Freetown which houses some of the most dangerous prisoners , as well as a group of high profile political detainees in the country. Some [Read More]
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]
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