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Presidential hopeful Alie Kabba returns to Sierra Leone with renewed push for peace and unity

January 22, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2017 The radical progressive nationalist and SLPP presidential aspirant, Alie Badara Sanjan Kabba (Photo) is today on his way home from the USA, with an unwavering commitment to re-engage SLPP stakeholders in a renewed push to achieve lasting peace and unity in the party. Alie [Read More]

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Has Jammeh agreed to step down or is he making a fool of the world?

January 21, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2017 There are serious doubts tonight as to whether former president of The Gambia Yahya Jammeh has agreed to step down and leave the country, so as to allow the democratically elected president Adama Barrow to return from exile in neighbouring Senegal to form his [Read More]

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More questions thrown at Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission

January 19, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 January 2017 Doubts and concerns about the effectiveness and good governance of Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) are refusing to go away. One of the country’s human rights advocacy groups – the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) is tonight accusing the ACC of [Read More]

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Maada Bio calls for dialogue with opposition SLPP Alliance

January 14, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 18

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 January 2017 Presidential and general elections in Sierra Leone are less than fifteen months away. Yet the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is far from being ready to contest those elections, let alone position itself as a government in waiting, despite the popularity of the [Read More]

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Sierra Leone opposition SLPP crisis cannot be good for Sierra Leone’s national security

January 12, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 January 2017  Recent disturbing events in the internal affairs of Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the SLPP, culminating two days ago in the alleged shooting of a party supporter outside the High Court in Freetown, continue to threaten the party’s fragile existence. Many in Sierra [Read More]

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Human rights group calls for Sierra Leone Anti-Corruption Commission to be more effective

January 8, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

CHRDI Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2017 The Campaign for Human Rights and Development International-CHRDI welcomes the invitation for a genuine and transparent partnership to fight against graft in Sierra Leone. This is a call that has been made by many Sierra Leoneans who reacted to our Press Release in [Read More]

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Senior SLPP national executives fallen on their swords as balance of power shifts

January 5, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 11

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2017 There has been a seismic shift in power in the National Executive Council (NEC) of Sierra Leone’s main opposition SLPP party tonight, after the council voted at its meeting in the Miatta Conference Hall in Freetown to expel and suspend some of its most [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s social welfare minister Blyden sets standard of transparency, openness and accountability

December 29, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2016 Few ministers, if any in Sierra Leone – including the president, have gone all out to ensure that as a matter of duty they routinely inform their paymaster the tax payer about their daily work activity. But as many Sierra Leoneans would admit, only [Read More]

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Will the Sierra Leone opposition SLPP party survive its latest knockout blow?

December 18, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2016 The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is in the habit of knocking itself out every now and again – a habit it has come to perfect, since losing the 2007 elections. But will it recover from yesterday’s bout with its own demon? Yesterday’s resolution [Read More]

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