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Sierra Leone police accused of stifling freedoms

July 23, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 July 2018: Sierra Leone’s main opposition political party – the All People’s Congress (APC) will be holding a press conference at its headquarters in Freetown today, to discuss its response to the SLPP government’s published report on its first one hundred days in office, as well [Read More]

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President Bio first 100 days improving good governance

July 23, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 July 2018: In his foreword to the Sierra Leone People’s Party Manifesto, 2018, as then Presidential Candidate,  President Julius Maada Bio writes that: “Our New Direction therefore offers the people of Sierra Leone a stark choice between the current ‘Business as Usual Status Quo’ of the [Read More]

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Is president Bio any different to other politicians in Sierra Leone?

July 20, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 July 2018: Do you call him a Taciturn, a reclusive or just a quiet politician who allows his actions to speak more than his words? It happened during the early days of the Green Revolution of the late Joseph Saidu Momoh of the [Read More]

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Sierra Leone appoints new diplomats for overseas mission

July 20, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 July 2018: As is now customary in Sierra Leone’s politics, the newly elected president Julius Maada Bio has dismissed the country’s Ambassadors, High Commissioners and diplomatic staff appointed by the former president Koroma, to be replaced by loyalists, activists and supporters of his ruling SLPP party. [Read More]

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President Bio’s Governance Transition Report – an opportunity for real change

July 18, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Muktar Usman: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 July 2018: On April 6, 2018, just two days after his swearing in, President Julius Maada Bio followed in the footsteps of his predecessor and established a Governance Transition Team (GTT) with a four-pronged mandate to “serve as focal point for the interface with [Read More]

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Free education will be actualised under the New Direction – teachers union tells President Bio

July 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2018: Last Friday 13 July, the Sierra Leone Teachers’ Union (SLTU), held a meeting at State House with  President Julius Maada Bio to endorse his government’s free education policy. President of the SLTU – Mohamed Sallieu Bangura, expressed hope in the success of the new [Read More]

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Irish ambassador discusses with Sierra Leone minister of foreign affairs Alie Kabba

July 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2018: Yesterday, 16 July, 2018, the Ambassador of Ireland resident in Sierra Leone – Catherine Campbell met with the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation – Alie Kabba at his Tower Hill office in Freetown. Ambassador Catherine Campbell said that her visit is  [Read More]

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NGC Parliamentarians join UNFPA to mark World Population Day in Kambia

July 17, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Anthony Kamara Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2018: As part of its activities marking the 2018 World Population Day (#WPD2018), the Sierra Leone Country Office of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday hosted the first of a series of community events in districts with the lowest Contraceptives Prevalence Rates to [Read More]

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Corruption in Sierra Leone is everyone’s business

July 15, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2018: The much vaunted and long awaited GTT report is out. In the meantime, we have seen a lot of political and social commentators take to the media, to express their views and rightly so. Some call it democracy and others settle for [Read More]

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