Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 December 2023: As Sierra Leone continues to slide towards anarchy, following the conclusion of presidential and general elections held on 23 June 2023, which election observers say were significantly marred by electoral malpractices, the US based Carter Centre has published its final report into the conduct [Read More]

Maxwell Cole: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2023: This week, the judiciary’s social media accounts announced the dismissal of the seven grounds of appeal presented by former President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma (Photo above) against the judge-led Commission of Inquiry. The panel of judges, comprising Hon. Justice Fatmatta Bintu Alhadi, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2023: Brenthurst Foundation is calling for an end to political witch-hunt in Sierra Leone, and expresses confidence in former president Koroma, after police decision to place the former president under house arrest, with limited access to visitors. According to the head of Sierra Leone Police, [Read More]

Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2023: Sierra Leone is sitting on tenterhooks and the atmosphere is charged with high tension, anxiety, edginess, fear and uncertainty everywhere, despite assurances by the SLPP Maada Bio government that things have returned to normal in the country after the alleged coup attempt [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2023: The United States Government’s Millennium Challenge Corporation yesterday refused to grant-aid $450 million of funding to the Bio-led government of Sierra Leone, in response to the deteriorating democratic space and serious human rights abuses in the country. “…the Board reselected Sierra Leone as eligible to continue [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 December 2023: Ernest Bai Koroma, a former president of Sierra Leone from 2007 to 2018, was at the Criminal Investigations Department in Freetown yesterday, where he was questioned by police about an armed attack by persons suspected by the government to have attempted to overthrow the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 December 2023: Police in Freetown have invited the former President of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma to the Criminal Investigations Department in Freetown for questioning, after scores of military and police officers were arrested following a series of armed attacks on Sunday, 26 November 2023, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2023: President Julius Maada Bio today joined mourners, family members, well-wishers and Sierra Leoneans at the inter-faith funeral service of 18 security personnel killed during what has been described by the government as “a failed attempted coup in Freetown” on 26 November, 2023. The President [Read More]

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]