Politics & Law

Mayor Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 July 2022: It was an honour to participate in the Africa Drive For Democracy Conference yesterday. This convening of members of the African democratic community is aimed at renewing commitments to the promotion of democratic ideas nationally, regionally, and continentally. Hosted in Arusha, Tanzania [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 July 2022: Kemi Badenoch, who currently serves in the government of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson as Minister for Local Government, Faith and Communities at the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and Minister for Equalities, has today emerged as kingmaker in the ruling Conservative [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2022: A new legislation proposed by the government of Sierra Leone which many believe could bring in sweeping changes to the country’s electoral laws, has generated mixed reactions from the public and media. The Public Elections Bill 2022 is currently being debated in parliament, with [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 July 2022: Sierra Leone Police continues its onslaught against female politicians in the country, with the arrest and detention without charge yesterday of Madam Yabome Sesay, who is the Chairperson of Tonkolili District Council – an opposition APC controlled council in the north of the country. [Read More]

Charlie J. Hughes: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 July 2022: When Sierra Leoneans go the polls in June 2023 it will be the country’s fifth routine multiparty elections since 2002. Sierra Leone has achieved a great feat that would be the envy of most countries on the continent. While arguments can [Read More]

Jaime Yaya Barry: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 July 2022: Imagine spending so much time and resources on changing electoral laws to help you remain in power, and immediately you lose the elections right after changing the rules. Then the very laws you wanted to use against others eventually start working [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 July 2022: The Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of the Corporate Affairs Commission of Sierra Leone – Prince Bamidele Williams, wrote a letter on 5th July, 2022 addressed to the Company Secretary of the CoPPP, stating that he has dfecided to rescind the registration of the [Read More]

Sulaiman Banja Tejan-Sie Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 July 2022: Today’s topical issues as we approach another election cycle in our growing democracy are the violent trend of our youth in parliamentary bye elections, political leaders’ complicity in that malaise, the challenges in our Courts and most importantly the ever [Read More]

Saidu Bangura, PhD: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 July 2022: A discussion of youths in politics is as controversial a topic as the allusion I have made in the title that youths are agents of politics. Agents as used in this context should be understood to mean “instrumental” – given the [Read More]