Politics & Law

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 September 2025: Watching APC supporters of Dr. Samura Kamara dancing and celebrating the idea that he will be handed power by ECOWAS while President Julius Maada Bio has even left the country is sickening, delusional, and alarming. The APC party stalwarts are observing [Read More]

Tab Media: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 September 2025: Former Vice President of Sierra Leone, Chief Alhaji Samuel Sam-Sumana, has delivered a strong and uncompromising message to the nation, reaffirming that the Constitution of Sierra Leone remains the supreme law above all individuals, institutions, or political interests. Speaking at a press [Read More]

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2025: A high-level fact-finding delegation from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)on August 26, 2025 commenced engagements with the Government of Sierra Leone over the protracted Yenga border dispute with neighbouring Guinea. The team, comprising ECOWAS officials, technical experts and [Read More]

Mohamed Gibril Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 September 2025: Let me start with a simple observation: politics in Sierra Leone is rarely black and white. The Electoral Justice (EJ) issue is no exception. It sits in the middle of a web of grievances, personal calculations, and broader questions of party [Read More]

Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2025: In recent times, the idea of “power sharing” has resurfaced in Sierra Leone’s political discourse, promoted as a way to resolve disputes, prevent conflict, or maintain peace. But why now? And more importantly, why would a government on the brink of [Read More]

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2025: “All power in Sierra Leone belongs to the people who exercise it through their elected representatives.” – 1961 Constitution. The 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone was supposed to be the supreme law of the land – the legal fortress protecting our [Read More]

Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2025: One of the bloodiest conflicts ever in Africa was the rebel war in Sierra Leone from 1990 to 2002. The war which devastated the country’s already crumbling infrastructure also killed over 150,000 people, created a colony of amputees and put the nation’s [Read More]

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2025: According to the local lore, the song “Koko Ros” was composed by Dr. Orloh, in the wake of a personal rupture – his divorce. On the surface, it is draped in melody and rhythm. Beneath that, it is an allegorical jab [Read More]

Dr Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2025: In any true democracy, civil society is meant to be the voice of the people and the watchdog that keeps government on its toes. But in Sierra Leone, that watchdog seems to have turned into something else entirely. Sierra Leone’s civil society [Read More]