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]
Jarrah Kawusu-Konte: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2023: According to sources, President Julius Maada Bio has grudgingly agreed to participate in peace talks with the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party. This follows the acrimonious outcome of the June 24 presidential elections in which he was controversially declared the winner [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 September 2023: President Bio of Sierra Leone, his ruling SLPP party leadership, heads of security forces, and officials of the country’s electoral commission are under serious pressure, after the United States government two days ago announced that it is imposing a visa ban on all those [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2023: A key reason for institutional failures in Sierra Leone is the shameful reluctance of their leadership to tell successive presidents the truth, even if it means the heads of those institutions may lose their job. The unlawful sacking of the country’s Auditor General – [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2023: The government of Sierra Leone made a controversial announcement last week that it will be establishing an embassy in disputed city of Jerusalem, which the State of Israel is claiming as its capital, despite protest by Palestinians who are demanding that the east of [Read More]
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