Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2018: A serious row has broken out between the ruling SLPP and the former president of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma, after the SLPP National Publicity Secretary – Lahai Lawrence Leema, yesterday accused the former president of holding a secret meeting in his home town [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2018: The view that African presidents can flout the law at will, unencumbered by constitutional or democratic constraints is well ingrained. But a new book by Nic Cheeseman, argues that this is a deeply misleading picture which underestimates Africa’s growing democratisation. This is what he [Read More]
Author: Anthony Kamara Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2018: Like every other newly elected Member of Parliament, Hon. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella arrived at the Tower Hill Houses of Parliament yesterday, April 17 2018 to attend an induction session hosted by the Parliamentary Service Commission in collaboration with the Westminster [Read More]
Author: Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: The balance of power in Sierra Leone’s parliament during the next five years, suggests that crafting a stable majority for governance is likely to be tricky, if not messy. The ruling party, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has 48 seats; the All People’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2018: Mr. Charles Francis Margai who last week was appointed as Sierra Leone’s new Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has today taken his oath of office, witnessed by the president – Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio. This is the first time in the country’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 April 2018: Sierra Leone’s elections are long over. The people have spoken. Julius Maada Bio of the opposition SLPP has been elected president. But he has failed to win control of the country’s parliament – the legislature. So how will he get his programmes and budgets [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2018: Sierra Leone’s newly elected president Julius Maada Bio was today granted a vote of confidence by the IMF and the country’s international development partners at a High-Level Forum on Economic Policy Priorities, jointly organised by the IMF and the ministry of finance in Freetown. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2018: After much anticipation from the people of Sierra Leone, and criticisms too for delaying the appointment of his cabinet ministers, president Julius Maada Bio has today announced his first wave of ministers and senior officials, who will help him govern a divided and economically [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 April 2018: The newly elected National Grand Coalition (NGC) members of parliament for Kambia District, have arrived in Freetown for a series of consultations ahead of the opening of the Fifth Session of parliament. The NGC parliamentary representatives are: Mr. Foday Mario Kamara of Constituency 057 [Read More]
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