Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2025: The people of Sierra Leone are looking on with dismay, as the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party’s motto – ‘One Country One People’ begins to unravel, following a dramatic, uncouth, and disrespectful display of SLPP members of parliament and the First Lady, at last [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2025: As controversial and debatable as it sounds, hate and revenge have become the palm oil with which politics is eaten today. Revenge politics has now become trendy. What makes is scary is how this has become the modus operandi for most worldly [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 August 2025: Just when taxpayers of Freetown – the capital of Sierra Leone are beginning to breathe a sigh of relief from the Bio-led government’s recent onslaught and campaign of attrition aimed at bringing Freetown City Council and the Mayor to their knees, political tension has [Read More]

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 August 2025: Sierra Leone is a country where emotions have overridden logic in politics. What used to be a straightforward matter of governance, development, and leadership has now become a sentimental battlefield where people argue not on the basis of truth or vision, [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 July 2025: Sierra Leone established the Environment Protection Act (EPA) in 2008, and among many others, it is meant to safeguard the environment and manage the nation’s natural resources. Embedded in this Act is the Agency’s remit to ensure that the nation’s vison to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 July 2025: According to a BBC report last week, Burkina Faso’s military rulers have disbanded the country’s electoral commission calling it a waste of money. The interior ministry will handle elections in the future, state-run RTB TV reported. Since seizing power in September 2022, the coup [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 July 2025: In a position paper dated 17th July 2025, National Election Watch – Sierra Leone, a coalition of civic and non-governmental organizations with representatives including Community-Based Organizations, Trade Unions, the Inter-Religious Council, professional bodies, and the media,  communicated the outcome of the Civil Society Dialogue [Read More]

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 July 2025: Wonders shall never end in Sierra Leone. This tiny West African nation, blessed with abundant natural resources and vibrant human capital, was supposed to be on a trajectory far above many of its struggling neighbours. But here we are, trapped in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 July 2025: The judiciary and legal fraternity of Sierra Leone are in mourning following the passing of Hon. Justice Abubakar Binneh Kamara, a young, distinguished High Court Judge of fifteen years’ service. He died at Choithram Memorial Hospital in Freetown. Justice Binneh Kamara served with dedication [Read More]