Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2019: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) Party is today condemning the arrest and incarceration of its members and supporters by the police. Writing in a public statement published yesterday, the party’s National Secretary General – Alhaji Dr Osman Foday Yansaneh refers to [Read More]

PUAWUI DR SAMA BANYA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2019: Readers must forgive me for opening today’s column by acknowledging the compliment paid to me last Friday by no less a person than my nephew, who has become a legendary columnist not simply in his own right, but among the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2019: There are reports tonight of the arrest in Freetown of another opposition APC strongman – the former Mayor of Freetown, who is also the Acting Chairman of the APC Western Area Committee – Mr Herbert George Williams. His arrest by Sierra Leone police today [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2019: The government of president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, last week invoked a joint operation of both military and police officers to patrol the streets and areas that are notorious for serious crimes across the country. This joint operation, known as the Military [Read More]

Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 August 2019: The fight against corruption in Sierra Leone has begun. It is on course and gathering traction, under the fearless leadership of Mr Francis Ben Kaifala, the Commissioner of the country’s Anti- Corruption Commission.  Kaifala’s real strength lies with president Julius Maada Bio, [Read More]

Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2019: As no new nation is built on virgin ground, so it is with governments. All new governments must contend with the legacies of its predecessor, whatever they may be. President Julius Maada Bio’s ‘New Direction’ is the same old Poverty Reduction Strategy [Read More]

Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2019: ‘Fortune favours the daring’ is epitome of President Julius Maada Bio’s incredulous, (in the minds of a fairly large chunk of sceptics,) ascendancy to the highest office in the state. Absolutely phenomenal. It contradicted theories shopped around that any other SLPP candidate, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2019: It is thought that there are as many as one hundred thousand or more Sierra Leoneans or people with Sierra Leonean passports, living in the United States. Many are believed to be illegal immigrants or serving jail term. After decades of US humanitarian policy [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2019: The Sierra Leone Telegraph has just learnt tonight, that the opposition APC politician and chairman of Sierra Leone’s Western Area Rural District Council has this evening been re-arrested, after he was granted bail this afternoon. He will be spending the night at the notorious [Read More]