Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 March 2019: The Chief Electoral Commissioner of Sierra Leone – Mr Nfa Alie Conteh early this morning declared the SLPP candidate winner of the hotly contested bye-election in the Tonko Limba Chiefdom – Ward 196, in the Kambia District. Mustapha Kamara of the SLPP polled 46.92 [Read More]
Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 March 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission is credited with continuing efforts and enjoying the political goodwill in the fight against corruption in the country. To that end, an Amendment Bill has recently been presented to the House of Parliament, seeking to revise certain [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 March 2019: Since losing the March 2018 elections, there have been incessant calls for the country’s opposition APC party to reform or face indefinite stay on the opposition benches, if not extinction. And recently, the party’s parliamentary leaders have come under fierce attack by sections of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 March 2019: Yesterday, Thursday 7th March 2019, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone was at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government in Massachusetts, Boston, USA, where he delivered a powerful keynote speech about his vision for Sierra Leone’s development. His address, titled – ‘Toward a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2019: President Julius Maada Bio was today welcomed in Boston by the State Representative – Shawn C Dooley of the House of Representatives of The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where he was praised for his impressive leadership in transforming Sierra Leone. The State Representative congratulated president [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 March 2019: Sierra Leone is saying no to corruption. Yesterday, the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission reported that Ambassador Alie Ibrahim Kanu, who was also the former Chairman of the country’s Independent Media Commission and former Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations, has been charged to court for [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 March 2019: The recent political manoeuvre by president Julius Maada Bio has been hailed by many – not least his supporters, but lambasted in varying degrees by critics using politically tainted optical prisms for obvious reasons. Last week, president Bio invited all leaders of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 March 2019: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone will visit Harvard and MIT – leading global institutions of higher learning, research and innovation, in Boston, USA on Thursday, 7th March 2019, to build research and innovation partnership with Sierra Leone. The president will engage with [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 March 2019: Political dust is yet to settle in Sierra Leone, after the electoral victory of Julius Maada Bio’s SLPP party which ended the incumbent APC party’s ten year hold on power. Many political commentators say that the defeated APC is finding it very hard to [Read More]
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