Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 July 2017 Speaking today to the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph – Abdul Rashid Thomas, Dr Tengbe said that he fully supports yesterday’s press conference and statement published by a group of SLPP presidential aspirants in Freetown. Dr. Tengbe was personally unable to attend the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2017 If ever there has been a public occasion for the opposition SLPP party to show restraint and professionalism in the face of a major internal crisis that has brought it into serious voter disrepute, it was at today’s emergency press conference. Today’s press conference [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2017 The departure of Dr. Kandeh Yumkella from the opposition SLPP on Monday, has opened up a new crisis in the party, as flagbearers and executive officers discuss how best to respond to the vacuum he has left behind. SLPP Party chiefs need to react [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 July 2017 After months of speculation about whether and how long Dr. Kandeh Yumkella will continue to put up with the harassment and violence that he and some of his supporters have been subjected to by extremists within the opposition SLPP, he has today decided that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 July 2017 After last week’s tirade of abuse and violence from extremist sections of the opposition SLPP, pressure is growing for the former UN executive – Dr. Kandeh Yumekella to leave the party and join the national coalition of progressive politicians that is now emerging in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 June 2017 South Africa’s governing party, the ANC, holds its all-important policy conference this weekend. The conference comes as the embattled party’s dominance of South African politics is in sharp decline amid growing corruption in its ranks. Writing in theconversation.com, Christi van der Westhuizen points out [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 June 2017 A story published by Awareness Times yesterday, Tuesday 27th of June, 2017, alleging the involvement of one of the main contenders of the country’s 2018 presidential election – Mr Alie Kabba, has been condemned by his campaign team “as false, malicious and lazy journalism”. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 June 2017 Tribal politics in Africa is one of the reasons most communities across the continent are suffering massive under-development, social injustice, marginalisation, and at worse – violent conflict and loss of life. Even a small country like Sierra Leone where the majority of citizens live [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2017 The departure last week of president Koroma for Germany has sparked growing concern and speculation about the state of his health. A statement issued by Presidential Spokesman Abdulai Bayraytay last Sunday, 8th of June 2017, simply says that: “The general public is hereby informed [Read More]
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