Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2022: Despite serious concerns expressed by opposition political Parties and some civil society groups about the credibility of the provisional results of the 2021 population census published last Thursday by Statistics Sierra Leone, the ruling SLPP is calling on the government “to dismiss all condemnations [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 June 2022: Leader of Sierra Leone’s opposition parties in parliament – Chernor R. M. Bah MP (Photo above), has written a letter to the country’s Chief Electoral Commissioner – Mr. Mohamed Kenewui Konneh, warning him not to use the much-discredited provisional 2021 census data to manipulate [Read More]

Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2022: The provisional results of the 2021 Mid-Term census recently released by Statistics-Sierra Leone have raised eyebrows among Sierra Leoneans. According to the results summary our population has increased by only 449,528-–from 7,092,113 to 7,541,641 between 2015 and 2021. (Photo above: Sierra Leone’s [Read More]

Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 June 2022: President Bio may have some very harsh words for alleged corrupt contract deals from the previous government, but his actions show that his system is currently benefiting from the same alleged corrupt deals of the past regime. On scores of occasions [Read More]

Saidu Bangura PhD: Sierra Leone: 02 June 2022: We need to purge these two parties from our political ecology through the ballot box and ban all their reprobate members and collaborators from ever taking public office in our country for their part in the perennial pillaging of our economy or [Read More]

Dr. Dennis Bright: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2022: “You set out to count the number of people living in a village. There are 500 people living there. For some reason, you count only 300 people. The population of the village cannot be 300 inhabitants even if you used the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2022: President of Sierra Leone, Dr Julius Maada Bio who also is the Chairman of the African Peer Review and Monitoring (APRM) Forum, addressed his fellow African Union Heads of State and Government  last week at the AU extraordinary summit on terrorism and unconstitutional changes [Read More]

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 May 2022: Last week, the Speaker of Parliament had to adjourn a session for nearly half an hour in a bid to separate feuding SLPP and APC MPs. Reports say that the two sides almost went into physical blows. It is a fact [Read More]

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 May 2022: President Julius Maada Bio has agreed to contribute $500,000 towards the cost of setting up an Africa Humanitarian Agency. He made this announcement at the opening session of the 16th Extraordinary Conference of the African Union Summit, which took place on [Read More]