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Commonwealth action group launched to help African countries cut methane emissions

December 5, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2023: A new action group announced in Dubai today will help Commonwealth countries, including African member states, rapidly cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane as part of wider efforts to keep rising global temperatures within liveable limits. The country-led coalition was announced at [Read More]

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African leaders obsession with per diem – Tinubu’s outsized COP28 delegation costs N880m to fly

December 5, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2023: African leaders’ obsession with and fixation on milking their poor nations’ coffers, is really getting out of all proportion. If its not President Bio of Sierra Leone – who has been dubbed “President Fly Fly”, its Tinubu of Nigeria who ought to be setting [Read More]

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Declaration of curfew in Sierra Leone after last week’s alleged coup is unconstitutional

December 3, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Kenneth Vandi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2023: Sierra Leoneans at this time will frown at any fundamental breach of the 1991 Constitution of the country, especially with regards to the Fundamental Human Rights of citizens that the Constitution is there to protect. At about 8:00 pm yesterday, 2nd of [Read More]

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President Bio addresses the nation again after alleged coup – “I will respect the rule of law”

December 2, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2023: In the last hour, President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has delivered his second address to the nation. “Our response to the events of November 26 will be measured and determined solely by one Parameter – the rule of law,” he vowed. But [Read More]

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More senior opposition APC officials arrested for alleged coup in Sierra Leone

December 1, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2023: Bai Mahmoud Bangura, the National Organising Secretary of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party was yesterday arrested at his residence by armed police, as the wave of arrests of senior APC officials continues in response to what the government says was an attempted coup [Read More]

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United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations no longer trust President Bio’s leadership

November 29, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2023: Two senior members of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations – Ranking Member James E. Risch and Chairman Christopher Coons, have written a damning letter to the Board of the US Millenium Challenge Corporation expressing their deep concern at the US government’s [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s opposition APC denies being involved in attempted coup

November 29, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2023: Secretary General of the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) Party – Lansana Dumbuya, on Monday issued a public statement condemning the armed attack that took place in Freetown last Sunday morning, which saw the killing and arrest of dozens of people, many of whom [Read More]

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ECOWAS will deploy troops in Sierra Leone as President Bio loses moral authority to govern

November 29, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2023: President Julius Maada Bio on Monday received a delegation from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Commission and the Government of Nigeria, following Sunday’s round of heavy gunfire, prisons breakout and the arrest and killing of dozens of members of the opposition [Read More]

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Government of Sierra Leone says 26 November was an attempted coup

November 28, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2023: Sierra Leone’s senior military commanders and the minister of information today spoke at a press conference for the first time since the attempted coup last Sunday 26th November 2023. Chernor Bah, minister of information confirmed that the armed attack at the Wilberforce military ammunition [Read More]

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