Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 October 2018: President Bio of Sierra Leone is today embarking on a seven day overseas mission – 31st October to 7th November, starting with an  African Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative Conference taking place in Dakar, Senegal, tomorrow. And on the 4th-7th November, the president will meet [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 October 2018: The Chairman of the ruling SLPP UK and Ireland branch – Mr Mohamed Yongawo, has resigned from his post and bids farewell to party members to start his new job in Moscow as Sierra Leone’s Ambassador to Russia. “I couldn’t have gone to Russia [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 October 2018: In the last four months the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Sierra Leone has recovered a total sum of Le5,465,911,374 (Le5.4 billion Leones) from various corruption-related matters, including debt collection and investigations into the Transport and Ports Management System at the Queen Elizabeth II Quay, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2018: Former president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, has finally broken silence since his party lost the presidential and general elections held in March this year. According to report by APC stalwart – Chernor Ojuku Sesay, the former president was yesterday, Friday 26 [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2018: Members of the Sierra Leone People’s Party North America Region (SLPPNA) will today converge in Bronx, New York for the party’s 2018 Annual Convention, taking place this weekend. Highlights of the convention include two full days of deliberations, breakout sessions, a stakeholder forum, and [Read More]

Leon Usigbe: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 October 2018: Young Africans celebrate the first fruit of ‘Not Too Young to Run’ Campaign. With few or no opportunities to emerge as candidates for elective offices – because they are too young or because they have limited experience – some young Africans are [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2018: Early this year, just three months after he was elected Head of State, president Julius Maada Bio took a decision to dissolve the Boards of all state-appointed Commissions, parastatals and other state institutions, as he considered many of them to be unaccountable, self-serving and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2018: The Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) in Sierra Leone, last Friday, 19 October 2018 held talks with president Bio at State House, as concerns grow over the country’s economy, rising unemployment, and financial hardship facing many in the country. IGR is a multi-disciplinary policy-oriented [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2018: Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo – President of the Republic of Ghana, was host to Sierra Leone’s president Brigadier (Rtd.) Julius Maada Bio, who was on a two-day official working visit to Ghana which ended yesterday. Both presidents held a bilateral summit in Accra on [Read More]