Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2018: 840 Sierra Leoneans will be joining over two million Muslims from across the world, embarking on their holy pilgrimage to Mecca this week. State House media reports says that president Julius Maada Bio was at the Siaka Stevens Stadium in Freetown yesterday, where he [Read More]

Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2018: A Commission of Inquiry that is to investigate corruption in a few weeks’ time, is now on the lips of every Sierra Leonean. Whether the intention is witch-hunting or political accountability, the mere mentioning of the words – ‘commission of inquiry’, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2018: An African court with international criminal jurisdiction which has been debated but never been put into operation, could be an option if Africa withdraws from the ICC, as Michelle Nel reports for theconversation.com: The International Criminal Court (ICC) came about after an overwhelming majority [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2018: The war of words which started between the APC party and SLPP, following the defeat of the APC at the polls in March 2018, is simply refusing to go away. Whilst the ruling SLPP are accusing the opposition APC of trying to sabotage its [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2018: It is now almost five months since general and presidential elections were held in Sierra Leone, in which one of the country’s newly formed political parties – the National Grand Coalition (NGC) led by Dr Kandeh Yumkella, proved it is a force to be [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2018: Boris Johnson, the former UK foreign secretary, said people in burkas looked like “letter boxes” or “bank robbers”. The criticisms that have greeted his remarks were obvious. The Equality and Human Rights Commission said his comments risked “vilifying Muslim women”. While many [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2018: An official at the Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), yesterday told the Sierra Leone Telegraph that the former secretary to ex-president Koroma – Mr Osho Coker, is being investigated by the ACC for alleged laundering of public funds, using the country’s embassies. Mr Osho [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 August 2018: Some people are so pessimistic they make grumbling into an art. I had a friend a long time ago who was a perpetual grumbler. For him everything was doom and gloom. He finally got a visa to travel to the USA with [Read More]

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2018: The political class which kidnapped our tomorrow for a ransom, now wants to buy our today as well. Going by the torment of the past decade, the reality is that the political class sees ours and the nation’s future as a [Read More]