Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2019: The National Grand Coalition (NGC) party, led by the former UN executive – Dr Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, who is now an elected member of parliament representing one of the four constituencies in the Kambia district, held a press conference today to discuss the Bintumani [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2019: Our leaders were divided on the eve of independence in 1961. Since then, every change in government has been accompanied by accusations by the new government that it inherited a broken country and economy. President Kabbah accused the NPRC of emptying the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2019: A national two-day peace and reconciliation conference scheduled by Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio to commence 23rd May, has been voted down by the country’s main opposition APC party, at a meeting of its national executives, parliamentarians, mayors, chiefs, former ministers and other [Read More]

Oswald Hanciles: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2019: Bintumani-III (B-3) will debut this week. It’s a fait accompli. To me, the timing of it is another political and public relations blunder by the Bio Administration. It reeks of political capitulation to the majority party in Parliament, the APC – by the SLPP [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2019: Last Friday, 17 May 2019, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone arrived in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on a one-day working visit, where he was greeted at the airport by the Ivorian president – Alassane Ouattara. This followed president Bio’s snap visit last week [Read More]

Hon. Habib Bakarr Munda: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2019: Both Bintumani One and Two were contentious. The former was a demand by citizens for the National Provisionary Ruling Council (NPRC) administration to negotiate peace with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), as citizens had lost trust in the military to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 May 2019: After several weeks of anger and frustration felt across the Krio community in Freetown over accusations of forceful land grabbing by the ministry of lands, president Julius Maada Bio yesterday met with representatives of the Krio Descendant Union (KDU) at State House. According to [Read More]

Sorie Fofana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2019: Alhaji Dr. Ahmad Tejan Kabbah retired peacefully at the end of his second and final term as President of the Republic of Sierra Leone in September 2007. Since he retired from office, President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah carried himself like a retired President [Read More]

Jenkins Sulaiman: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2019: Like many other countries, Sierra Leone’s national government heavily influences the rules under which subnational/regional government operate.  This allows subnational interests in the national government to somehow influence how intergovernmental relationships are executed. However, in a country with a bifurcated political system [Read More]