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Protesting women in Freetown bring city to halt as female opposition leader Femi Cole is detained

July 5, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 11

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 July 2022: Dozens of women were arrested by police yesterday, after taking part in peaceful protest in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown against government’s economic policy which they say is painfully adding to the impact of global economic downturn and massive rising cost of living across the [Read More]

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Sierra Leone’s female opposition leader Femi Claudius Cole held under seige by military and police

July 3, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 23

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 July 2022: Sierra Leone’s democracy is under serious threat tonight, as one of the country’s leading female opposition politicians is barricaded inside her house, facing arrest by armed police, accused of inciting a group of women who are planning to stage a peaceful protest againt rising [Read More]

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COI appeal of former President Koroma is reserved for judgment  

July 3, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 July 2022: Presiding Judge, Justice Fatmatta Bintu Alhadi last Friday reserved former President Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) appeals for Judgment, after listening to closing arguments from Counsel representing both the Appellant and Respondent. The empaneled Judges are Justices Fatmatta Bintu Alhadi, Komba [Read More]

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President Bio speaks at the closing of 10th Africa conference on sexual health and rights

July 3, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 July 2022: President Dr Julius Maada Bio last Friday delivered the closing statement at the largest ever three-day conference on sexual health and rights, the 10th of such meetings of over 900 delegates from 41 African countries in Freetown. The 10th Africa Conference on Sexual Health [Read More]

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You cannot amend the constitution of Sierra Leone by ambush

July 3, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 July 2022: Once again Sierra Leone has been gripped by the vagaries of political brinkmanship. Once again it is about the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party’s (SLPP) penchant for conducting issues of national interest inspite of everyone else’s views and opinions. In exactly [Read More]

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State witness gives evidence against LAJ in court as he returns to Pademba Road Prison

June 23, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 June 2022: Alhaji Amadu Bah alias LAJ appeared in Pademba Road Magistrate’s Court No. 1 yesterday, 22nd June 2022, presided by  Principal Magistrate Sahr E. Kekura, to answer to four counts charge, including robbery with violence and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. State witness – Ishmael [Read More]

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LAJ appears in court but denied bail as human rights commission speaks out

June 21, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2022: Sierra Leone’s popular musician Alhaji Amadu Bah aka LAJ who was arrested and had his dreadlocks cut off by police in Freetown appeared in Pademba Road Court No. 1, Freetown yesterday 20th June, 2022 to answer a four counts charge including; three counts of [Read More]

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The battle to save the soul of Sierra Leone is a must: where do you stand? Op ed

June 21, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Saidu Bangura, PhD: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2022: Sierra Leone is at the crossroads of taking the road to progress or forever become a failed state, twenty years after the end of the brutal and senseless war in 2002. The politics that brought the civil war in 1991 – [Read More]

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Freetown City Council Kickstarts annual flood mitigation measures

June 20, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2022: Last Saturday 18th June, Freetown City Council teams made up of Councillors, public spaces cleaners, sanitary inspectors, MET Police and community volunteers kicked off the council’s fifth annual flood mitigation exercise at Taylor Street, Wellington. The exercise, which involves removing garbage and silt from [Read More]

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