Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2019: The Parliament of Sierra Leone has organized a three-day workshop to discuss the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The workshop which commenced yesterday, 23rd September, is co-supported by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and UNICEF, and is taking place in Bo. Over 50 members of Parliament drawn [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), last Thursday, 19th September 2019, filed corruption charges against Mannah Lahai, principal of Fatibu Technical Junior and Secondary School and supervisor for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Mohamed Kamara, a teacher, and Edward Lamboi, a Facilitator for WAEC. A few weeks ago there was [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2019: Sierra Leone’s vice president Dr Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, last Friday called on stakeholders of government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and local councils, to work towards acceleration of the decentralization process. Addressing a two day workshop organized by the Ministries of Finance and the [Read More]

Dennis Kabatto: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 September 2019: Human Rights and Uganda Journalists Association attorney – Eron Kizza, was a no show Wednesday at Kibuli Police Criminal Investigations Directorate (CID) where he was ordered for an interview and to record a statement on an unspecified crime. Kiiza rather chose to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 September 2019: President Julius Maada Bio departed Freetown yesterday for New York, where he is attending the seventy-fourth session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). The first day of the high level General Debate of the 74th Session will start on Tuesday, 24th September 2019, [Read More]

Federation of International Employers: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 September 2019: When the then Prime Minister, David Cameron, announced that he was going to give the UK people a chance to vote in a referendum, it was clearly on the basis of his negotiations with the EU about several special concessions [Read More]

Federation of International Employers: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 September 2019: Most African countries have vast mineral resources, a rapidly growing population that is increasingly well-educated, and have been the recipients of a huge amount of development aid. Why then do most of them continue to be amongst the most poverty-stricken [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 September 2019: Newspapers in Sierra Leone today, offer a broad coverage of some of the economic, political and social issues facing the country. Stories covered, range from the suspension of Sierra Leone by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association for non-payment of subscription; questioning of the government about [Read More]

Alhaji U. N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2019: What is happening today in South Africa with attacks on fellow Africans will have Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Steve Biko, Mangaliso Sobukwe, and Chris Hani turning in their graves. At the height of the anti- apartheid struggle in South Africa, [Read More]