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Sierra Leone’s President Bio makes bid for seat on United Nations Security Council

May 10, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 May 2022: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has launched Sierra Leone’s bid for a seat in the non-permanent category of the United Nations Security Council, UNSC, for the period 2024-2025. In his statement, President Bio recalled that in just eight years after Sierra Leone became a [Read More]

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Former APC minister Kemoh Sesay released on Le500 million bail accused of insulting president Bio

May 9, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 May 2022: Alhaji Kemoh Sesay, former transport and aviation minister in the Koroma-led government appeared at the magistrate court in Freetown today, after spending a few days in jail accused of insulting President Maada Bio. Sesay was captured in a video which went viral on social [Read More]

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APC must reconcile now before holding lower-level elections – Op-ed

May 7, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 10

Cornelius Oguntola Melvin Deveaux: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 May 2022: The ruling of Justice Adrian Fisher in the matter between Alfred Peter Conteh versus Ernest Bai Koroma, Osman Foday Yansaneh, All Peoples Congress, and the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) is exciting, daunting, and flummoxed. It aroused overwhelming and intimidating [Read More]

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Opposition APC presidential aspirant Kemoh Sesay arrested for allegedly insulting president Bio

May 5, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 9

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 May 2022: Minister of Transport and Aviation in the former Koroma-led APC government – Kemoh Sesay, was today remanded in custody by Principal Magistrate Sahr E. Kekura in Freetown, accused of allegedly insulting the President in a speech delivered to his supporters in Port Loko. Kemoh [Read More]

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Can the executive decision of a sitting President of Sierra Leone be the subject of litigation after leaving office? Op ed

May 5, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Andrew Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 May 2022: While H.E Ernest Bai Koroma was serving as President of the Republic of Sierra Leone under the ticket of the All People’s Congress (APC), the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) had embarked on the construction of a multi-purpose market in [Read More]

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President Bio confers Sierra Leonean citizenship on 59 African Americans

May 3, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 May 2022: Last Thursday, 28th April, a day after the country celebrated its 61st Independence anniversary, President Bio of Sierra Leone welcomed a group of 59 African Americans to the country and granted them Sierra Leonean citizenship. Although it is not certain how much revenue the [Read More]

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Yansaneh has failed, so let us rebuild the APC – Op ed

May 3, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Titus Boye-Thompson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 May 2022: Coming events cast their shadows and so the saying goes that what is to come is in itself offered to us by signs and premonition. The die has been cast. The Fisher verdict is not to be considered a spanner in the [Read More]

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President Bio receives Report into causes of Wellington fire disaster which killed over one hundred and fifty 

April 29, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 April 2022: President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday received a report from the 15-man Presidential Taskforce set up to investigate the causes of the Wellington petrol tanker fire disaster which took place on the 5th of November last year, claiming the lives of over 150 people [Read More]

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High Court Judge Fisher orders APC executives to dissolve and make way for an interim committee

April 29, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 April 2022: In the long-awaited conclusion of the legal battle between Alfred Peter Conteh and former president Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone – who is also chairman of the main opposition All People’s Congress party (APC), High Court Judge Adrian Fisher yesterday [Read More]

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