Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 February 2024: Advocaid announced yesterday that the ECOWAS Court has issued a groundbreaking judgement, ordering the government of Sierra Leone to pay compensation to a student who was shot during peaceful protest in Bo in 2017. Advocaid said that this is “a critical step forward for [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 February 2024: President Xi Jinping of China yesterday agreed a $9 million financial and technical aid package for Sierra Leone, during talks in Beijing with Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, who is in China hoping to return home with substantial economic aid and investment package [Read More]
Sylvanus Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 February 2024: The APC decision not to go to court following the June 2023 elections to seek redress is statute-based. Sections 93 paragraph (a), and 52 paragraph (b) of the Public Elections Act, 2022 (PEA, 2022) are very instructive in terms of time with [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2024: The United Republic of Tanzania is all set to welcome ministers and attorneys-general to the Commonwealth Law Ministers Meeting, which will open in Zanzibar on 4 March 2024. Held every two years, the meeting of law ministers is a leading platform for collaboration among [Read More]
Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2024: In Sierra Leone, the promise of government officials to uplift society often falls short, leaving the nation lagging behind in progress. The shortcomings in crucial sectors such as healthcare, tourism, and infrastructure paint a clear and disheartening picture. Despite the Health Ministry’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2024: Sierra Leone’s economy is on the brink of collapse as government revenue continues to fall, after years of government’s failure to bring in vital private investments into key high-growth potential sectors of the economy, including agriculture, agro-processing, and fish farming. After decades of unfulfilled [Read More]
Africanist Press: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 February 2024: Sierra Leone’s 1991 Constitution, and the Public Elections Act 2022, forbids the inauguration of a President, Members of Parliament, and representatives of Local Government Councils without properly conducted elections. Under Sierra Leonean law, elections are only considered properly and democratically conducted when [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 February 2024: Two weeks ago, the Sierra Leone Telegraph published a story in which the then Chairman of the country’s Metro Transport Company (MTC) – Mr. Victor Ako Mengot, called on all partners and stakeholders involved in the setting up and running of the Waka Fine [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2024: With Africa, and especially West Africa facing democratic backsliding and a surge in military coups, the ongoing crisis in Senegal, a country regarded as one of West Africa’s most stable democracies could not have come at a worse time. (Photo above: Senegal’s [Read More]
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