Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2019: The Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development has this morning announced that, President Julius Maada Bio will today be launching his government’s review of the Local Government Act (LGA 2004) and the Decentralization Policy (2010). The review will be conducted by the newly [Read More]

Sorie Fofana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2019: On 4th April 2018, Julius Maada Bio was sworn-in as the democratically elected President of Sierra Leone. That is exactly eighteen months ago. Since his election as President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, President Dr. Julius Maada Bio has been very [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2019: Sierra Leone’s former minister of mines, who is also the current deputy chairman of the opposition All People’s Congress Party (APC) – Minkailu Mansaray, was last Friday discharged on all counts of corruption offences by High Court Judge – Justice Reginald Sydney Fynn, after [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2019: India’s vice president Shri Venkaiah Naidu, met with Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio at State House in Freetown today Sunday, where he announced major areas of support for Sierra Leone to promote economic development in the country. The support package includes a US$30 [Read More]

Sirajin M Rollings-Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2019: Honourable Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards, I am reflecting and referencing court judgements meted against ten of us Members of Parliament belonging to the All People’s Congress Party (the largest opposition) by the High Court of Sierra Leone on May 31 2019. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 October 2019: The long-awaited ministerial performance report on the first twelve months of the Bio-led government of Sierra Leone was published last Monday, at a press conference in Freetown. With the majority of ministers scoring above fifty-percent, the report should no doubt make for comfortable reading [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 October 2019: Last Friday, Sierra Leone’s newly appointed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, Dr Morie Komba Manyeh, was at State House to bid farewell to president Julius Maada Bio, before flying off to London to start his work. He thanked the president [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2019: There can be no greater threat to world peace today, than the delusion of one’s greatness. As the world sits on the precipice of the collapse of the world order, thanks to the delusion of self perception from two of the world’s [Read More]

LEGAL LINK: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2019: Christian Lawyers Centre, also known as LEGAL LINK celebrates this year’s international day of older persons by calling on the government of Sierra Leone to sign, ratify and domesticate the Protocol for older persons in Africa. It could be recalled that on [Read More]