Politics & Law

Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 September 2019: The government of Sierra Leone has waived the requirement for a prospective visitor to the country to first apply for an Entry Visa before travelling. The government’s press release states that it’s a strategy aimed at encouraging more foreigners to visit Sierra [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2019: Yesterday, Sierra Leone’s president  Julius Maada Bio who is also Commander-In-Chief of the country’s Armed Forces, RSLAF, met  newly recruited female soldiers at the Benguema Barracks, where he congratulated and  warned them against politics. The president was attending the passing-out parade and commissioning ceremony [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: 8 September 2019: Africa is unquestionably a beautiful continent, with wonderful landscapes, good climate and all the beauty that nature has to offer. Sadly, the continent is more often than not remembered for the ills that afflict human nature. The continent has unfortunately become a synonym for drought, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2019: Last Friday, 6 September 2019, a special representative of president Xi Jinping of China, Mr. Yang Jiechi, met with president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone at State House in Freetown, where he assured president Bio of China’s commitment to further deepening and strengthening [Read More]

PUAWUI   DR SAMA BANYA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2019: Most readers of Social media must have seen the video by now. It is reported to be events at a political campaign meeting in the Falaba and Koinadugu districts of Northern Sierra Leone. I do not recognize the speaker at [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2019: Dr. Kandeh Yumkella (MP), parliamentary leader of the opposition National Grand Coalition (NGC) party, swapped a career in the upper ranks of international diplomacy for the rough and tumble of politics in his homeland, Sierra Leone. And even though he’s no stranger to international [Read More]

Saidu Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 September 2019: Ornithologists have reported in their findings for countless decades that there are roughly about 10,000 species of birds in the world. They studied their migration and flight patterns, feeding habits, physical appearances and emotional dispositions. Strangely, their studies also indicated that some [Read More]

Lansana Fofanah: 3 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s Electricity Distribution & Supply Authority (EDSA), spends huge sums of money in purchasing power from the Electricity Generating & Transmission Company (EGTC) and Independent Power Providers (IPP),  to meet the growing demand of electricity in Freetown and surrounding communities. But faced with serious challenges, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s statesman, former President Ernest Bai Koroma, has just landed in Accra, Ghana, where he will be joining his peers at the maiden edition of the Kofi Annan Peace and Security (KAPS) Forum on the theme: “Peace Operations in the Context of Violent [Read More]