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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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Public outcry over the cutting of popular musician’s dreadlocks by police in Freetown 

June 20, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2022: The Sierra Leone Bar Association yesterday published a statement expressing concern over the arrest, detention and physical abuse of popular musician Alhaji Amadu Bah (LAJ), who is reported to have had his famous dreadlocks chopped off by the police after his arrest. He is [Read More]

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Opposition parties in Sierra Leone call for investigation into 2021 census inaccuracies

June 10, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2022: Opposition political parties in Sierra Leone that are part of a loose coalition known as the Consortium of Progressive Political Parties (COPPP), have published a statement calling on the government of President Bio to conduct a thorough and independent investigation into the manner in [Read More]

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Mayor of Freetown writes to Statistics Sierra Leone about serious errors in the 2021 census figures 

June 10, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2022: Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr has written a letter to Professor Osman Sankoh, who is the country’s Statistician General, pointing out the massive and glaring errors inherent in his recently published mid-term census results for Freetown (Western Area). In her letter, she said that: [Read More]

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President Bio welcomes Commonwealth lawmakers meeting in Freetown

June 8, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Siera Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2022: Parliamentarians from across several African countries that are members of the British Commonwealth are meeting in Freetown, Sierra Leone this week, marking  the 52nd Assembly of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Africa Region. Addressing the opening session of the meeting on Monday, 6th of [Read More]

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CHRDI calls on government of Sierra Leone to reject salary increment for members of parliament

June 7, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

CHRDI: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2022: The Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) draws the attention of the Government of Sierra Leone, CSOs and citizens, to stop the current initiative in the Sierra Leone Parliament to increase the salaries of the Members of Parliament. This attempt to [Read More]

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