Politics & Law

James Fallah-Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2019: The head of state of the Republic of Sierra Leone, President Julius Maada Bio, declared last week that rape has become a national emergency, and went on to state that anyone caught molesting minors would be punished by life in prison. This [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2019: Yesterday, Thursday 7 February 2019, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, signed performance contract with each of his cabinet ministers, holding them accountable for the governance of their ministries and to ensure that key priorities laid down in his New Direction programme are [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2019: The diplomatic community, international agencies and eminent Sierra Leoneans were guests of president Julius Maada Bio and the first lady – Mrs Fatima Bio, at a state banquet held at State Lodge, Hill Station in Freetown last Tuesday, where the president spoke about his [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2019: Barely three days after Sierra Leone’s commissions of inquiry started their investigations into alleged corruption by former  government officials, the opposition All People’s Congress party (APC)  has finally decided to take court action to stop the inquiry. But according to critics of the APC, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2019: Yesterday, president Julius Maada Bio joined hundreds of people at an event organised by the Office of the First Lady to commemorate World Cancer Day, at the Bintumani International Conference Centre in Aberdeen, Freetown. In his keynote address, President Bio said that the event’s [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2019: Liberia’s constitution contains what’s known as a “Negro clause” which limits citizenship in the country to black people. Similar clauses were included in the laws of a number of other African countries, including Chad, Malawi and Mali, but all have been removed. The fact [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 February 2019: Some political scribes may have already started writing the political obituary of the APC Party. Amid the recriminations, accusations and several theories postulated to identify the reasons for its failure to win the 2018 elections, a significant part of the blame has [Read More]

Abdulai Braima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2019: Sierra Leone’s High Commissioner to the UK and Ireland – Mr Tamba Lamina was addressing an energised gathering of a cross section of Kono residents in the UK, at a packed welcoming ceremony organised yesterday in South East London by an umbrella group [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last Friday said that it has indicted two senior officials in the Ministry of Information and Communication, over the alleged misappropriation of funds meant for sensitising the general public about the work of the Commissions of Inquiry which start [Read More]