Politics & Law

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]

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]