Politics & Law

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]

Anthony Abdul Karim Kamara (Jnr): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2018: Members of Parliament from across Africa are gathered in Kigali for the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) First Ordinary Session of its Fifth Parliament. Held amidst pomp and pageantry, the high-level opening ceremony saw new members sworn-in as representatives from their [Read More]

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]