Politics & Law

CHRDI: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 January 2026: CHRDI is deeply concerned and disappointed by the prevalence of endemic problems, including corruption, inadequate resources, low interest in human rights protection, judicial uncertainty, a lack of transparency and accountability, and growing distrust of the justice system. In 2018, Sierra Leone’s President Julius [Read More]

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 January 2026: Sierra Leone’s future is not determined by rhetoric, slogans or election cycles alone. It is determined by the strength, discipline and moral clarity of its institutions and by the willingness of its people to defend the collective interest over personal gain. [Read More]

Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 January 2026: Caracas did not awaken to a coup declared or a government dissolved. It awoke to interruption. In the hours before dawn, parts of the city fell into darkness. Electricity failed across several districts. Communications faltered. Then came the reports, first fragmented, [Read More]

Zainab Tunkara Clarkson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2025: As global attention cautiously drifts back to West Africa, a troubling narrative is beginning to take shape. Shifts in rhetoric from Western political figures including U.S. President Donald Trump’s blunt foreign-policy worldview are reviving familiar anxieties about Nigeria’s political future. For [Read More]

George Shadrack Kamanda: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2025: A student holding an offer of admission to a U.S. university is now wondering whether years of preparation still count. By a way of example, a lawful permanent resident is staring at an approved petition, asking why a spouse cannot yet [Read More]

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2025: On the humid Atlantic edge of Accra, where the Gulf of Guinea exhales history into the present, Africa once again gathered to wrestle with its oldest and most unsettling question: whether unity on this vast and varied continent is a destiny [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2025: “The entry into the United States of nationals of Sierra Leone as immigrants and as non-immigrants is hereby fully suspended.” That’s the chilling message Sierra Leoneans have woken up to this morning from US President Trump. What started as a partial travel ban on [Read More]

Abdul Kandeh Turay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Decentralization was once hailed as one of Sierra Leone’s most progressive governance reforms, a deliberate strategy to bring development closer to the people and correct decades of marginalization identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). But today, the promise of [Read More]

Foday Moriba Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: Mohamed Sillah Bangura, a concerned Sierra Leonean citizen, has written to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice expressing deep concern over what he describes as “serious shortcomings” in the country’s autopsy procedures conducted at the Connaught Hospital mortuary. In a [Read More]