Politics & Law

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2019: The gunshots started raining down the streets of Harare on 14th November 2017, and by the 21st, Emmerson Mnangagwa, the then former Vice President and former trench mate of Robert Mugabe made his first intervention by calling on his former boss to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 January 2019: The argument isn’t whether African democracies are better than those in the West. It’s simply that the idea of “real” and “not yet real” democracies expresses a colonial mentality – not reality, writes Steven Friedman in theconversation.com. This is Steven Friedman’s analysis: One day, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2019: The long-awaited Commission of Inquiry into the governance activities of the former government led by president Koroma is finally here. Dubbed the people’s commission, the judge led commission will be opened at the Special Court Buildings in Freetown, on Tuesday 29th January 2019. The [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2019: Yesterday, Thursday 24 January 2019 was a big day for the more than 2 million people living in Sierra Leone’s capital city – Freetown, with the official launching of a Blueprint and Strategic Programme, aimed at transforming Freetown into a twenty-first century city. Speaking [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 January 2019: The government of Sierra Leone yesterday published a letter imposing an immediate ban on all initiation ceremonies conducted by traditional secret societies across the country, after the gruesome murder of two young men believed to be in their twenties. The alleged killing took place [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 January 2019: President Julius Maada Bio and his vice president Dr Juldeh Jalloh last weekend concluded a major segment of their national ‘Thank You Tour’ in Kono District, which many – especially his supporters, have described as a successful odyssey. The success of the [Read More]

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2019: The origin of the power of Parliament to punish conduct constituting contempt is uncertain and it is not necessary to delve into it here. It is sufficient to say that by the end of the seventeenth century, it had become firmly [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2019: Zimbabwe is on the edge. To help prevent the chaos from escalating even further, president Emmerson Mnangagwa – and those he can rally behind him in the ruling Zanu-PF – need urgently to take steps towards forming a government of national unity as has [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2019: Last weekend, president Julius Maada Bio officially opened the newly constructed community health centre in Makali, Kunike Barina Chiefdom, Tonkolili District, Northern Sierra Leone. The facility has been established with funding from the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID). DfID’s Representative, Sandra Baldwin, said [Read More]