Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2019: Former president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, is in Portugal where he spoke yesterday as guest of the 2019 Horasis Global Meeting taking place in Cascais, Portugal. The three-day event which kicked off yesterday 6th April 2019, is co-chaired by the former [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2019: Sierra Leone’s judiciary was rocked yesterday after news of the indictment of the country’s Registrar and Master of the High Court of Sierra Leone on various corruption charges, including the embezzlement of Le60,000,000 received in court fines. According to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), on [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2019: Yesterday, Thursday 4th April 2019, the parliament of Sierra Leone debated and committed a Bill entitled – “The Anti-Corruption Amendment Act 2019″ to its Legislative Committee for further scrutiny. The Bill which was tabled in parliament by the Deputy Attorney General and Minister of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2019: There are mixed reactions today as the SLPP party celebrates one year in office, since winning the presidential elections held in March 2018. But the debate about the SLPP government’s performance report card is highly polarised by bitter argument between the main opposition APC [Read More]

Campaign for Good Governance: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2019: As 4th April 2019 marks one year in office of the new government, Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) takes the opportunity to reflect on key governance trends, with a purpose to make governance better in Sierra Leone. We commend the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2019: Exactly a year ago, president Julius Maada Bio took office after a nail-biting presidential election which saw his SLPP party winning State House, but failed to gain control of the country’s parliament. Twelve months on, there has been very little shift in general public [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 April 2019: Last weekend former president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, announced his surprised re-entry into national politics, despite promising to take a back seat as leader and chairman of his defeated APC party at last year’s elections. But yesterday, as he resumed office at [Read More]

Mohamed Massaquoi (Mass): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 April 2019: In the wake of that shocking electoral defeat in its traditional stronghold of Tonko Limba, the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC), was left in confusion and internal brawl, and with difficulty in focusing on anything productive but rather turning its [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 April 2019: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) will hold its flagship annual event, the Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW) from 4-7 April 2019, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire). This year, the weekend will focus on the key topic of African migrations. It will feature an African-led [Read More]