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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2022: Dr. Abass Chernor Bundu, Speaker of Sierra Leone’s parliament has today published a highly controversial report which outlines his ruling on what he himself describes as “the riotous behaviour of some members of parliament in the chamber of parliament on 23rd November 2022.” In [Read More]
Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 November 2022: It was Edmund Burke who famously wrote these immortal words that “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing ” (Photo above: Joseph F. Kamara). The Supreme Court action by learned icons of the law, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2022: With barely seven months before general, local, and presidential elections are held in Sierra Leone, President Bio’s last-minute bid to change the country’s voting system from the constituency first past the post to district block proportional representation, has tonight been dealt a massive blow [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2022: Last Wednesday 23rd November 2022 was another sad chapter in the history of Sierra Leone’s Parliament, after members of Parliament went on the rampage, hurling objects and punching one another as the Speaker – Dr Abass Bundu, lost control in an ill-tempered debate over [Read More]
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