Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: President Dr Julius Maada Bio gave a keynote address at the launching of the first edition of the ‘Education in Africa’ report, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, and the African Union, on the margins of the Africa Assembly [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: Speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday Saturday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio shared Sierra Leone’s experience with Ebola, successes with Covid-19 and efforts at creating public health agencies and using early warning systems. “The main lesson for us in Sierra Leone is a clear [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2023: Leader of Sierra Leone’s Alliance Democratic Party (ADP), Mohamed Kamarainba, has been found guilty of grooming and having sex with a 15-year old school girl by Judge Samuel Omodale Taylor, at the Appeals Court in Freetown yesterday. According to the prosecution, Kamarainba with the [Read More]

Sheriff Mahmud Ishmail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2023: On Sunday, February 12, at the APC Northern Region headquarter in Makeni, Dr Samura Kamara formally declared his intention to lead the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party into the presidential and general elections slated for June 24, 2023. In [Read More]

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2023: The recent upsurge in military coups, militant extremist groups and political protestations across Africa has rattled the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, and the international community at large. Studies show that coups are back, in parts. The [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2023: EU Elections Observer Mission to Sierra Leone held talks yesterday with the parliamentary Leader of the National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party – Dr. Kandeh Yumkella at his residence in Freetown, after last week’s wave of resignation by senior officials of the party including the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 February 2023: Despite lofty claims by President Bio and the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission of succeeding in tackling high level corruption in Sierra Leone, there are several sacred cows in his government that are using clever means of siphoning public funds into their personal accounts. In 2019, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 February 2023: Dozens of school children who were invited by the wife of President Bio and the government to attend a rally at the Bo stadium in southern Sierra Leone, were seriously injured when a section of the stadium collapsed. The rally which critics say was [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 February 2023: Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma departed Freetown today Sunday, 5 February 2023 to join his peers on a five-nation visits to discuss security on the African continent. Organized by the Brenthurst Foundation, the high-level event is scheduled to take place from the [Read More]