Politics & Law

Kelvin Jay (Voices of Salone): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2026: Tensions between the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) and National Elections Watch (NEW) have reportedly deepened following the controversy surrounding the 2023 General Elections, with NEW accusing the Commission of deliberate exclusion and attempts to silence independent election [Read More]

Yoni Emmanuel Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2026: In Sierra Leone’s debate over the 2025 Constitutional Amendment Bill, the most troubling feature is not the substance of the proposals themselves but the silence that has settled around them. Institutions that traditionally speak during constitutional moments — the judiciary, the [Read More]

Yoni Emmanuel Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 January 2026: Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution was drafted to dismantle the 1978 one-party state and restore multiparty constitutional rule. That transition was necessary and widely welcomed. Yet, from its very inception, it was fragile. That fragility soon became evident when, barely a year [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 January 2026: President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi yesterday received U.S. Senior Advisor for Arab and African Affairs Massad Boulos. The meeting was attended by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Dr. Badr Abdel-Atty, Head of the General Intelligence Services Major General Hassan Rashad, Deputy Chief [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 January 2026: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, and Member of the Political Bureau of China’s CPC Central Committee, and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yi, held the 9th China–African Union Strategic Dialogue at the African [Read More]

CHRDI: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 January 2026: CHRDI is deeply concerned and disappointed by the prevalence of endemic problems, including corruption, inadequate resources, low interest in human rights protection, judicial uncertainty, a lack of transparency and accountability, and growing distrust of the justice system. In 2018, Sierra Leone’s President Julius [Read More]

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 January 2026: Sierra Leone’s future is not determined by rhetoric, slogans or election cycles alone. It is determined by the strength, discipline and moral clarity of its institutions and by the willingness of its people to defend the collective interest over personal gain. [Read More]

Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2026: Caracas did not awaken to a coup declared or a government dissolved. It awoke to interruption. In the hours before dawn, parts of the city fell into darkness. Electricity failed across several districts. Communications faltered. Then came the reports, first fragmented, [Read More]

Zainab Tunkara Clarkson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2025: As global attention cautiously drifts back to West Africa, a troubling narrative is beginning to take shape. Shifts in rhetoric from Western political figures including U.S. President Donald Trump’s blunt foreign-policy worldview are reviving familiar anxieties about Nigeria’s political future. For [Read More]