Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2018: Following yesterday’s violent attack on the Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, allegedly by supporters of the ruling SLPP outside their party headquarters in the capital Freetown, condemnation of the attack has been swift. The 50/50 Group Secretariat issued this statement today: “The 50/50 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2018: The elected Mayor of Freetown who was recently sworn into office was physically attacked yesterday by a crowd of people believed to be supporters of the SLPP, who were gathered outside their party headquarters, just yards away from the Mayor’s City Council office. The [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 May 2018: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has today moved one step forward to achieving a key promise made during his first week of being elected head of state, which is to instil discipline and strong work ethics across the public sector. ‘There will [Read More]
Alusine Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2018: Your Honourable Sir, we hope your new appointment marks the end of the notorious selective justice system that dominated the government of Ernest Bai Koroma, and will bring to justice criminals – the likes of Momoh Konte, who have stolen millions of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2018: Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a musical genius born of a Sierra Leonean mother and a Caribbean father, has done it again. In 2016, aged seventeen, he was crowned Britain’s Best Young Musician of the Year by the BBC. Sheku, now 19 years old, plays the cello [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2018: With several appointments to his government yet to be made, president Julius Maada Bio has announced the names of deputy ministers and other senior government officials who would help him steer the ship of governance for the next five years. But many Sierra Leoneans [Read More]
Author: Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2018: President Bio’s opening salvo in his speech at the State opening of Parliament left no one in doubt about what he thought of the previous government – no pleasantries, no thanks to the previous government. He went straight for the jugular: [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2018: Sierra Leone’s newly elected president Julius Maada Bio is facing monumental challenges in rising to the task of rebuilding the country’s crippling economy, after years of mismanagement by the Koroma led APC government. Bio won the presidential election held in March 2018 by a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 May 2018: Ernest Bai Koroma, who until a few weeks ago was the president of Sierra Leone, has published his Self-Assessment Performance Report on his ten years of stewardship – a report which critics of the Bio government say has been placed under lock and key [Read More]
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