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PPRC’s banning of political rallies will not end lawlessness – Op ed

April 4, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Augustine Sorie-Sengbe Marrah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 April 2023: The Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC’s) recent decision to ban political rallies is as illegal, unlawful, and unconstitutional as the Police’s ban of vehicular movement in 2018. Political rally is not a prohibited activity in the new Political Parties Act 2022. [Read More]

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Opposition APC accuses security forces of attempted assassination of their presidential candidate Dr Samura 

April 4, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 April 2023: A deadly standoff last Sunday at Mile 38 between security forces and a convoy carrying the presidential candidate of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party, became very ugly after security forces refused permission for Dr Samura’s convoy to proceed along the Highway to the [Read More]

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APC’s bread and butter issues election campaign has blown the wind away from NGC’s sails – Op ed 

April 1, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 April 2023: The All People’s Congress (APC) Party has launched a series of election campaign posters for the 2023 elections, highlighting the significant increase in food prices since April 2018 when the party was voted out of office, compared to March 2023 under the [Read More]

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Samura Kamara received by US State officials as President Bio is snubbed by Vice President Kamala Harris  

March 30, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 March 2023: United States Vice President Kamala Harris is this week visiting Africa, as part of President Joe Biden’s strategy to rebuild US economic and political relationships with the continent, and Sierra Leone – a country whose brutal and corrupt image President Bio said he has [Read More]

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President Bio remains quiet as condemnation grows over his mayoral candidate’s call for Jihad

March 28, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2023: As condemnation of the ruling SLPP Freetown Mayoral candidate – Mohamed Gento Kamara grows, following his display of religious hate against Christians during his sermon at a Mosque in Freetown last Sunday, President Bio and his party leadership remain tight-lipped. Mohamed Gento Kamara is [Read More]

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Gento’s sermon of religious intolerance must be condemned – Op ed

March 28, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Winstanley R. Bankole Johnson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2023: As a nation with a people full of great intellect, humour and wit, there are never dull moments in Sierra Leone. Except that in the last four years of the Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP) incumbency, most of those moments [Read More]

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Sierra Leone: Where politics is too important to take seriously

March 28, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 March 2023: Sierra Leone is gearing up for its forthcoming elections in June this year, and there is no running away from the fact that the politicking and political gymnastics are in full swing. However, it is the events leading to the climax in [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s ruling SLPP party mayoral candidate ferments religious hate ahead of June elections

March 27, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 March 2023: When a failed politician uses religious bigotry in his election campaign to win hearts and minds of voters, questions must be asked about the desperation of his ruling SLPP party to stay in power for another five years, despite a litany of [Read More]

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Fighting corruption in Sierra Leone: Are the real offenders in the dock? Op ed

March 25, 2023 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 March 2023: On November 23, 2021, the Anti- Corruption Commission (ACC) indicted Saidu Nallo, head of the Sierra Leone Chancery in New York, United States of America, and five others including Dr Samura Kamara. (Photo above: President Bio and his former foreign minister [Read More]

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