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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 April 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last Saturday, 27th March 2019, charged the country’s Director of Surveys and Lands at the Ministry of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment – with one count of Abuse of Office contrary to Section 42(1) of the Anti-Corruption Act [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2019: Last Friday, 29 March 2019, the newly appointed Solicitor General of Sierra Leone, Mohamed Lamin Tarawalley, took his oath of office in the presence of president Julius Maada Bio at a ceremony held at State House in Freetown. Shortly after taking his oath of [Read More]
Puawui – Dr Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2019: There has been much activity and quite a lot of discussions in the media about the recent decision of some prominent former members of the now ruling Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) to return home. That is, to return [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 March 2019: Details about yesterday’s road accident in Rwanda involving three Sierra Leonean members of parliament remain sketchy. But it’s been reported this morning that the vehicle they were travelling in careered off the road into a ditch outside Rwanda’s capital Kigali. It has also been [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2019: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress Party (APC) continues to embarrass itself with successive parliamentary gaffs, giving the ruling SLPP the much needed political space to get on with the business of governing a country that has been broken by ten years of [Read More]
Sorie Fofana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2019: As President of Sierra Leone and Leader of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) between 1995 and 2007, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah embraced all those who contested against him for the leadership of the Party in 1995. In fact, after emerging as Party [Read More]
Sorie-Sengbe Marrah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2019: I pored over Winstanley Bankole Johnson’s above-titled article interrupting my typically restful Sunday. I must admit that much as the article betrays expectations for substance, I must commend the writer, whose post-mayoral life is now spent on scholastic contribution to governance since [Read More]
Winstanley R Bankole Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2019: Parliamentarians are wont to shift blame for their enacting shoddy laws or for approving mediocre Presidential appointees to us the electorates. Their argument is that public input which is germane to their decision-making processes is non-existent, even though opportunities for [Read More]
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