Politics & Law

Dr. Dennis Bright: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2018: The Government Transition Team in its report was categorical that there had been very serious cases of corruption and mismanagement, involving the President and top Government officials in the last APC administration. Following the publication of the transition report, the views [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2018: Sierra Leoneans have this morning woken up to a new dawn, a new democracy, a new political landscape, and hopefully the start of a new culture of political and public accountability, that could bring an end to unbridled corruption with impunity. Yesterday, Monday 22nd [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2018: The leadership of the National Grand Coalition (NGC) has completed its consultations on the parliamentary debate of the Bill laid before parliament by the SLPP government, calling for the formation of a Commission of Inquiry to investigate alleged corruption by the former APC government. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 October 2018: The German Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Horst Gruner, and the new Gambia High Commissioner, Ebraima Manneh, yesterday presented their credentials to president Julius Maada Bio at State House in Freetown. Ambassador Gruner said it was a pleasure handing his credentials to president Bio. He [Read More]

Anthony Abdul Karim Kamara (Jnr): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 October 2018: Head of the European Union Delegation to Sierra Leone, Ambassador Tom Vens, appeared before Sierra Leone’s Parliamentary Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (PSC-FAIC) on Wednesday, 17 October 2018, following an invitation to update the committee on [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 October 2018: The former social welfare and children’s affairs minister in the Koroma led APC government – Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, has rejected a draft report sent to her by the chairman of the nine-man committee, set up by the APC National Advisory Committee (NAC) to [Read More]

Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2018: To millions of Sierra Leoneans in 2007, the All Peoples Congress party (APC) was a beacon of hope in post Tejan Kabbah governance. But more than a decade on, the party has been mired in countless corruption scandals and infighting, and [Read More]

Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2018 Sierra Leoneans’ distrust of their political system is at an all-time high. Many of us are concerned about the dysfunction in State House and Parliament, and whether things will ever get better. Politics is an industry and the two dominant competitors [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2018: Sierra Leoneans can no longer afford to airbrush the spate of violence from our national consciousness. It is more than six months into President Maada Bio’s reign, but the afterbirth of the last general elections seems to have taken a different colouration [Read More]