Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2018: President Julius Maada Bio and his ministers last weekend – Friday 22nd – Saturday 23rd June 2018, were at the popular Freetown tourist resort village of Tokeh, for a strategy delivery planning meeting. The weekend retreat was sponsored by the United Nations Development Programme [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2018: President Julius Maada Bio has appointed a new head of the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), after revoking the contract of Mr. Ady Macauley as Commissioner with immediate effect. Macauley was appointed to head the ACC by former president Ernest Bai Koroma in March 2016. [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2018: There are growing calls for president Bio of Sierra Leone to publish the contents of a report produced by a government governance committee that he established, just weeks after he was elected in March 2018. The Governance Transition Committee which is chaired by the [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 June 2018: Two months and two high profile sackings! Both were unexpected but had generated considerable and diverse comments in the press and social media. The erstwhile Secretary to the President was a close confidante of the President. The short-lived Attorney General, Charles Margai [Read More]

Author: Abdul Malik Bangura: 15 June 2018: I have just seen a very deceitful and misleading press release signed by the Financial Secretary (FS) of Sierra Leone, Sahr Lahai Jusu, dated today 14th June 2018, in which the FS is claiming that the Government of His Excellency President Maada Bio [Read More]

Mariama Dumbuya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2018: It was while I was attending the funeral service of the late Madam Abator Davidson at Christ Church during that I thought of writing this piece. She was a dedicated Sierra Leonean woman who spent her life, advocating and campaigning for equality [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 June 2018: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation (MFAIC) Dr. Alie Sanjan Kabba, has disclosed that President Julius Maada Bio will soon be heading for a UN meeting in New York. President Bio will attend as Head of State and leader of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2018: Sierra Leone’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice – Charles Margai has today been sacked by president Bio, after serving less than two months in the job. It is not clear what prompted his sacking. But sources close to the president, told the Sierra [Read More]

Franck Kuwonu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 June 2018: Thanks to a unique fellowship at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) as an Ibrahim Leadership Fellow, Marian Yinusa is making an impact in the lives of school-age girls in her birthplace of northern Nigeria. Currently a senior financial economist [Read More]