Erin Accampo Hern: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Women are less likely than men to participate in politics in Africa. This gender gap affects everything from attending community meetings to contacting elected officials, joining others to raise public issues, expressing a partisan preference and even voting. On average, women [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2018: The drums may have fallen silent, the last bugle and trumpets sounded, and the dusty feet washed and oiled for another day. And so, it came to pass that President Julius Maada Bio was successfully inaugurated on the 12th of May 2018. [Read More]
Author: Mohamed Bahr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2018: The sickening spectacle of chaos and mayhem that unfolded in the well of parliament during the sitting of the fifth parliament of the second Republic, seems to have been conjured from a gangster movie of dim –witted desperados and bovine bandits. [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2018: Who would have guessed the debate by Parliament on the President’s speech would have gone off to such a dream start? Social media went into overdrive analysing the maiden speeches of two APC MPs who made a good, if unusual start to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2018: The August 14th 2017 mudslide, which took place at the Motema Community in Regent, Freetown, Sierra Leone, left over 1000 Sierra Leoneans dead and many displaced, after a heavy and sustained downpour of torrential rainfall. According to yesterday’s report by State House media officer – [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2018: Political tension is rising again in Sierra Leone, after the recent murder of an opposition APC party politician in the far west of the capital Freetown. Although the police are yet to make an official statement about his death, members of the APC party [Read More]
Ibrahim Sourie Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 June 2018: Just two weeks ago, I finished reading one of the most fascinating books called “Why Nations Fail”. After reading the book, I appreciate how far Sierra Leone has failed to impress on the world stage, since gaining independence in 1961. But [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2018: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has promised the country’s soldiers that his administration will review their conditions of service and strengthen the military, so that it can become more effective in protecting and securing the country’s territorial integrity. According to State House [Read More]
Anthony Abdul Karim Kamara, Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2018: “The Diaspora is a resource that Sierra Leone can tap into for its development needs,” said retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic. He was speaking for the first time at the House of Parliament in Freetown, [Read More]
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