Politics & Law

Dauda Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 September 2022: The All People’s Congress Member of Parliament for constituency 066 in Kerena District, Hon. Mohamed Bangura and the APC chairlady for Tonkolili District Yabom Sesay were both remanded in prison yesterday, on charges of riotous conduct, obstruction and assault on a police [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 September 2022: Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma today, Monday September 5th, was visited at his residence in Makeni by the European Union ambassador to Sierra Leone, Manuel Muller. The two had lengthy but fruitful discussions on a range of issues, the country’s preparations for [Read More]

Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 September 2022: Many misinformed and ignorant people think that an election is rigged only on the day of polling. They think that protecting their votes on elections day is the key to stopping an election from being rigged. The fact however is that an [Read More]

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 September 2022: On Saturday September 3rd, 2022, the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) started what is supposed to be the voter registration process ahead of the June 2023 general elections. But the inscription on the document issued at the end of this [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 September 2022: There was frustration and anger in various electoral registration centres across Sierra Leone last weekend, as voters were unable to register because of faulty computers. (Photo Credit: Kerefala Janneh/Xinhua). In several centres in the capital Freetown, voters queued up for many hours waiting to [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 September 2022: Sierra Leone politicians were divided even at independence. Independence festivities were overshadowed by the state of emergency, declared ten days earlier following a campaign of sabotage by the opposition All People’s Congress Party (APC). The APC had been urging that independence should [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2022: My heart goes out to the families of the six people who died in the mudslide at Looking Town today Sunday, 28th August 2022. The deceased (a husband, wife and their baby, another child and two men) lived in two adjacent [Read More]

Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2022: Let’s start with the timeline. 11 May 2022, ACC Chair, Francis Ben Kaifala issued press release through social media; 16 May 2022, Femi Claudius Cole writes a robust response to the ACC Press Release in Sierra Leone Telegraph, querying, amongst other issues [Read More]

Ruben Rubadoveski: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2022: In the last four years alone in Sierra Leone, under the presidency of Rtd Brigadier Maada Bio, the police and presidential guards have killed more protesters than they did under the last two presidencies – of Kabba and Koroma, combined (a total [Read More]