Politics & Law

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2022: Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards last Saturday said that a new Arbitration Law will soon come to force in Sierra Leone. He was speaking as a special guest at the 6th International Chamber of Commerce Africa Conference on Arbitration on the theme, [Read More]

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]