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]
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]
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