Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 November 2019: As parliamentarians prepare to receive the SLPP government’s 2020 Budget and Financial Statement tomorrow Friday, 8 November, to be delivered by finance minister Jacob Jusu Saffa, president Bio has today announced a snap cabinet reshuffle. Although a cabinet reshuffle was expected after calls from [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 November 2019: Last Friday, president Julius Maada Bio received the latest report of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) into the government’s performance in managing the affairs of the country. According to the report, which was presented to the president by Maria Brewer – the American ambassador [Read More]

Audit Service SL: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2019: The Auditor-General of Sierra Leone wishes to inform the public that the Performance Audit Report on Assessment and Issuance of Building Permits by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and the Environment (MLHE) has been tabled in Parliament on Tuesday 29th October, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2019: Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone, one of the two most important ‘swing regions’ in the country’s political and electoral landscape, is believed to be increasingly going ‘green’ – the colour of the ruling SLPP party, as well as becoming more ecologically conscious, since [Read More]

Patricia Scotland – Commonwealth Secretary-General: Sierra Leone Telegraph:1 November 2019 Access to justice for everyone in all communities is an important right and requirement for building fair and peaceful societies – yet this objective has been achieved in few if any nations, and the consequences are damaging for social, economic [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 November 2019: The problem is that politics has power; religion has only love, peace and the experience of the divine. Politics can easily interfere with religion; and it has been interfering all along, to such an extent that it has destroyed many religious values [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 November 2019: In Sierra Leone, the long-awaited inquiry into the assets of former president Koroma and other senior public officials in his APC government, will commence sitting on Monday, 11 November 2019. The inquiry will look into the financial affairs of former president Ernest Bai Koroma, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 October 2019: Parliament of Sierra Leone yesterday debated a Bill put forward by the Anti-Corruption Commission to amend existing corruption laws, in a bid to strengthen the hands of the commission in tackling what many believe is the most single contributor to widespread poverty in Sierra [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2019: Political temperature and popularity were tested by two leading politicians in Sierra Leone on Friday, but in the wrong place – a Mosque. This is just not any old Mosque, but one of the most politicised Mosques in the capital Freetown, if not the [Read More]