Politics & Law

Umaru S. Jah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 September 2023: In recent months, Sierra Leone has grappled with a worrisome challenge threatening its democratic integrity: allegations of election irregularities and a troubling lack of transparency in result tabulation. These claims have reverberated within the nation and raised concerns among international election [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 September 2023: As protests continue in Europe and the US against president Bio’s presidency, after he was controversially declared winner of what election observers and the international community say was a seriously flawed election process, President Bio has once again repeated his verbal attack on the [Read More]

Kabs Kanu & Abdul Karim Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 September 2023: Sierra Leoneans from different parts of the continental USA have started converging on New York City in readiness for another massive demonstration against President Maada Bio, on the fringes of the United Nations General Assembly, on Wednesday September 20, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2023 President Julius Maada Bio on Friday delivered a public lecture at the American University, USA about his flagship human capital development programme which he says will build a prosperous and secured future for Sierra Leone. Speaking mainly to his ruling SLPP party supporters in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2023: On September 12, 2023, new U.S. Ambassador Bryan Hunt congratulated the 40 hand-selected Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) soldiers for completing their training with the United States Army Security Force Assistance Brigade. The RSLAF officers, ranging in rank from Private to Warrant [Read More]

Franck Kuwonu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 September 2023: The Security Council on 30 June  unanimously approved the complete withdrawal of UN peacekeeping forces in Mali in the next six months. Ahead of the decision, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative and Head of the Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) Mr. El-Ghassim Wane spoke [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2023: Following a meeting between the leadership of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party and representatives of the Commonwealth Secretariat and ECOWAS in Freetown three days ago, where they discussed the modalities for the start of political dialogue to end the post-elections crisis that is [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2023: Lansana Dumbuya, the main opposition APC party National Secretary General, has said in an official statement published two days ago, that the reported constitutional review to be undertaken by the SLPP government “is a deliberate and callous attempt by the regime to provoke a [Read More]

Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September: 2023: The Audit Services of Sierra Leone has named and shamed eight very important institutions that failed to submit financial statements for auditing. In short, the institutions refused to be audited as provided for by Section 119 (2) of the 1991 Constitution of [Read More]