Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2022: Yesterday, President Julius Maada Bio renewed his government’s commitment to working with stakeholders and development partners to address people trafficking – a form of modern-day slavery that constitutes a crime against the individual and the state. In his keynote statement to the opening of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2022: The current Chair of the African Union and President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall, and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat (Photo), are following closely the developments in Ukraine and are said to be particularly disturbed by reports [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2022: Following last week’s controversial decision by the minister of local government – Tamba Lamina to shut down the Freetown City Council’s Mayor’s Delivery Unit, based on recommendations of an investigations report into the management of the Council, the main opposition All People’s Congress Party [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2022: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) which is led by Francis Ben Kaifala is urging all public officials including elected politicians and ministers, to ensure that they declare their assets before the end of March. In a Public Notice published on the 24th of February [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2022: After two years in prison for a bailable offence which the government of Sierra Leone is refusing to honour, opposition leader Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray may die behind bars if access to urgent medical surgery for cancer is not provided. Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray was arrested [Read More]

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2022: Florence Charley – wife of the late Assistant Inspector General of Sierra Leone’s police Joseph Pizarro Christian Charley (popularly known as AIG Chris Charley), is suing the Minister of Health and Sanitation, the Medical Superintendent (Officer In Charge) of 34 Military [Read More]

Santigie Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2022: Early warning signals in Sierra Leone are staring state actors and the international community on the face and beckoning for action. Everyone, except Bio and his Government, agrees that widespread political abuse, repression and belligerence, represent a formidable antecedent to conflict. It [Read More]

AP News: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2022: Russian troops launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine today Thursday, as President Vladimir Putin cast aside international condemnation and sanctions and warned other countries that any attempt to interfere would lead to “consequences you have never seen.” Ukraine’s leadership said at least [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2022: High Court Judge, Justice Adrian Fisher yesterday dismissed an application by the defence team of Dr. Samura Kamara, the 2018 Presidential Candidate of the APC Party (Photo above), seeking to throw out the charges brought by the Anti-Corruption Commission against Dr. Samura Kamara and [Read More]