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Sierra Leone’s First Lady Fatima Bio prays for Sierra Leone in this Holy month of Ramadan

May 8, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 9

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 May 2019: As Muslims all over Sierra Leone and throughout the world today progressed through their third day of Ramadan – fasting, the First Lady of Sierra Leone, wife of president Julius Maada Bio – Mrs Fatima Bio, has offered best wishes and prayers for the [Read More]

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Corruption investigations – MP seeks to overturn decision for the ACC to prosecute

May 8, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 May 2019: Last week, the chairman of Sierra Leone’s Parliamentary Committee on Public Accounts – Sengepoh Thomas MP, wrote a letter to the country’s Anti-Corruption Czar – Francis Ben Kaifala, directing the ACC to commence investigations into the findings of the Auditor General’s Report on the [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s civil society condemns attacks on rights activists

May 8, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 May 2019: As political tension continues to rise in Sierra Leone, after last week’s walking out of parliament by the main opposition APC party, in protest at what they see as the SLPP government’s abuse of power, the heat has been directed at civil society activists [Read More]

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Ministry of Lands is disobeying the law – says Sierra Leone Bar Association

May 6, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2019: As anger grows in Freetown over the SLPP government’s continuing forceful repossession of lands and property owned by Krio families in the capital into State ownership, the country’s Bar Association representing Barristers, has today published a statement condemning the government’s action. The ministry of [Read More]

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Government’s dispossession of Krio ancestral land risks fuelling further marginalisation

May 6, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 9

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2019: Last week the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph contacted Sierra Leone’s minister of lands – Dr Denis Sandy, about allegations of heavy-handed government grabbing of ancestral land belonging to Krio families in the country’s capital Freetown. Minister Sandy was unapologetic, if not undiplomatic [Read More]

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Krio land dispossession in Freetown – citizens call for president Bio’s intervention

May 6, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 10

Amin Kef: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2019: A concerned constitutionalist has spoken about the many complaints made against Sierra Leone’s  Minister of Lands – Dr. Denis Sandy. He said that the fundamental role of any government is the protection and promotion of the rights and liberties of its citizens, [Read More]

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In this game of intolerant politics – who should blink first?

May 4, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Winstanley R. Bankole Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2019: Counting down to our 58th Independence Anniversary, our country stands more polarized in the last twelve months, than ever before. We keep denying it, but that fact continues to be inadvertently acknowledged. And it comes out effortlessly from statements of [Read More]

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Time to call APC’s bluff – enough is enough

May 4, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 12

Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2019: I have known and been associated with the leadership of the All Peoples Congress (APC) party since 1968 when they decided to hold bye-elections to fill the large number of vacancies all over the country. The vacancies themselves arose [Read More]

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APC government was characterised by divisiveness and exclusion – says president Bio

May 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 May 2019: President Julius Maada Bio’s delivery of his televised and radio broadcast state opening of parliament address, was overshadowed today by the spectacular walking out by opposition APC MPs, who are protesting against what they see as the president’s abuse of power. But their walk [Read More]

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