Sorie Fofana: Sierra Leone telegraph: 3 December 2019: A press release from State House dated 26th November, 2019 reads, “His Excellency the President has returned the Finance Bill, 2020, through a Memorandum to the Clerk of Parliament, pursuant to Part V, Section 106(7). In the Memorandum, the Secretary to the [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2019: The Sierra Leone Telegraph published an article this month, “Sierra Leone Parliament to discuss repeal of seditious libel laws next month”. It chronicled a recently gazetted Bill entitled “The Public Order (Amendment) Act, 2019”, in a bid to seek “to amend the [Read More]
Puawui – Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2019: I spend a lot of my leisure these days on Social Media, especially on WhatsApp, where many of the posts are biased political innuendos depending on which party the subscriber supports. Other posts could quite frankly be described as [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2019: Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to China, Ernest Mbaimba Ndomahina and Major General Ci Guowei, Chief of the International Military Cooperation Department of the Ministry of the National Defence of the People’s Republic of China, last Thursday signed an Agreement between Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Defence [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2019: Honourable Ibrahim Tawa Conteh is fast living up to his “Tawa” name, taking up issues that may be anathema to most of his colleagues. It would seem that more lately, he has been on a personal “Jihad” against what he considers poor [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2019: Following the conclusion today of the three-day visit of the joint peace mission to Cameroon, led by Baroness Patricia Scotland – Secretary General of the Commonwealth; the Chairman of the African Union (AU) Commission – Moussa Faki Mahamat; and the Secretary-General of the Organisation [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2019: Sierra Leone’s ministry of information and communications yesterday, 27 November 2019, engaged with key local state actors to discuss and map the way forward, to enhance national dialogue about the impact of the proposed repeal of Part 5 of the 1965 Public Order Act, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2019: Sierra Leone’s elections watchdog – the National Election Watch (NEW), has published its report into the conduct of the bye-election in Kasirie, in the Kambia district, which was won by the opposition National Grand Coalition (NGC) party, amid allegations of violence by supporters of [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2019: While some will see journalism as “organised gossip”, the majority will agree that it’s a force for progressive social change that maintains democracy. The role of journalism in any given society is so central that, it is often fondly described as the [Read More]
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