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Ghost of Sierra Leone’s journalist Olu Gordon will continue to haunt the country’s political class 

December 30, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 December 2022: Decades of poor governance, corruption and political instability have left the people of Sierra Leone wondering whether the abject poverty they suffer today will ever be a thing of the past, or remain a curse brought upon the nation by rogue, selfish, and inept [Read More]

Politics & Law

Kandeh Yumkella is his own man and will not be defined by the rotten politics of APC and SLPP

December 19, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Alan Luke (NGC Diaspora Co-ordinator): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2023 Speaking at the national delegates conference of his party – the National Grand Coalition (NGC) in Freetown last week, the Parliamentary Leader of the NGC – Dr Kandeh Yumkella said that: “For too many Sierra Leoneans, governments change, but [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Bio is so bad, the international community loves him

December 19, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2022: You don’t need to be a genius to feel the economic strangulation our country – Sierra Leone is currently experiencing. If the Leone and the Dollar were running in a marathon race, the dollar would complete its race a week earlier. It [Read More]

Economy & Business

President Bio meets US President Joe Biden at US-Africa Leaders’ Summit

December 17, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2022: Last Thursday, 15th December 2022, President Bio of Sierra Leone met with US President Joe Biden in the Wite House as part of the US-Africa Leaders’ Summit organised by the US Government. The visit comes despite critics of President Bio calling on President Biden [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Bio tells the media –  “Stay with me, stay the course and let us finish this journey together” 

December 11, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2022: With just six months before general and presidential election s are held in Sierra Leone, the campaigns have begun, and President Julius Maada Bio is quick off the mark – calling on the local media at his Annual Presidential Media Cocktail held in the [Read More]

Politics & Law

IMF delegation and Joint UN/ECOWAS Mission Team visit Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr

December 6, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2022: Following her court appearance last week, which many now believe to be nothing, but an unnecessary and costly political storm created by the government to malign and harass the Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr over a trumped-up charge of police obstruction, a high level [Read More]

Politics & Law

President Koroma kicks-off WAEF pre-elections assessment mission to Nigeria

December 5, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 December 2022: Led by Sierra Leone’s former president, Ernest Bai Koroma, along with the former vice president of The Gambia, Fatoumata Tambajallow, the West Africa Elders Forum (WAEF) last Sunday December 4 2022, started their Pre-elections Assessment Mission to Nigeria with a meeting [Read More]

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Democracy and freedom of speech are two sides of the same coin – Op ed

December 4, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 December 2022: There can be no democracy without freedom of speech. People should be very free to express their opinions in a turbulent, dysfunctional political dispensation like Sierra Leone. There are always three kinds of spheres in the journalism realm: Those who support and [Read More]

Politics & Law

Yumkella calls on the Bio-led government to be honest and open about the country’s finances

December 4, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 December 2022: As MPs in Sierra Leone’s parliament begin debating the government’s proposed revenue and spending budget for next financial year –  outlined in its Appropriation Act, 2023, the Parliamentary Leader of the opposition National Grand Coalition (NGC) Party – Dr Kandeh Yumkella, is calling on [Read More]

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