Politics & Law

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]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2018: “In theory, Sierra Leone has devolved many services to local government, but in practice central government maintains a grip on both resources and service delivery” says the Institute for Governance Reform (IGR) report – ‘Beyond Business as Usual: Looking Inward to Change our Story’. [Read More]

Abdulrahman Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2018: Sierra Leone’s Information Minister, Mohamed Rado Swaray has confirmed that President Bio’s administration approved 90% of the names that were submitted by Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), to serve as commissioners in the country’s Independent Media Commission (IMC). Minister Rado made [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2018: Sierra Leone’s Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has today condemned president Bio’s appointment of party loyalists to head the country’s Independent Media Commission (IMC), a decision that could seriously undermine media freedom in Sierra Leone. Writing in a statement published today, the secretary general of [Read More]

Fatima Maada Bio: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2018: My Sierra Leonean women are very strong and resilient. I call them “Women of substance”. As a republic, we have gone through a lot, but our women have always stood strong. As a human resource, women are underutilized in Sierra Leone. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2018: Dr Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, the former United Nations Director General of the UN Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) and Special Representative of the UN Secretary General, returned to his native land Sierra Leone in 2016 to help rebuild the country after decades of economic decline. [Read More]

Bashiru Vandi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 October 2018: The typical British autumnal weather failed to dampen the enthusiasm of hundreds of jubilant NGC-UK members and supporters, who came out to meet Dr Kandeh Yumkella, Dr Andrew Keili and Mrs Philomena Yumkella last Saturday in London, as well as in Manchester [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2018: Yesterday, Saturday 6th October, president Bio and the First Lady – Mrs Fatima Bio, visited 34 Military Hospital, Connaught Hospital and the Emergency Hospital to sympathise with the civilian, military, and police victims of the two road accidents which took place last week in [Read More]