Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2022: Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice Desmond Babatunde Edwards has called on all Magistrates across the country not to be static but to do better in the effective and efficient administration of justice. “It’s a new year and I want the wheels of justice to be [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2022: President Julius Maada Bio has today sacked the country’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice, after taking the decision to rescind his pardon, granted to a man whose death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment for murder. Baimba Moiforay, otherwise known as LAC and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2022: Speaker of Sierra Leone’s parliament, Dr Abass Bundu last Thursday spoke out strongly against the proposed constitutional changes put forward by the government of his ruling SLPP party, outlined in the government’s response to the Report of the Constitutional Review Committee. Speaking at the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 January 2022: President Dr Julius Maada Bio on Thursday, 13 January 2022, launched the government’s long-awaited White Paper on the review of the 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone, which could herald welcoming siesmic changes to the way the country is government. Speaking at the event, the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 January 2022: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone spoke today at the extraordinary session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra, Ghana, focussing on the ongoing political impasse in Mali, following a military coup last year. Addressing colleagues Heads of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 January 2022: Senior military staff in Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Defence (MoD), including the Assistant Chief of Defence (ACDS) Operations and Plans, Brig. Gen. R. B. Harleston, were at a press conference in Freetown on Thursday, where they responded to allegations of corruption and sexual violence [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 07 January 2022: “Sierra Leone is no longer the peaceful country that miraculously buried a violent history during a brutal war. The collected data are an early warning that the country is regressing back into low levels of continuous violence that were typical during its pre-war political [Read More]

Office of H.E. Ernest Bai Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6th January 2022: The attention of the Office of Former President Koroma has been drawn to a certain social media campaign, purportedly appealing to the statesman to stay on and to contest the 2023 presidential election. The public is hereby informed [Read More]

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 January 2022: Traditionally, international partners, not least the United Nations, which is more or less the custodian of international diplomacy, would conduct their public engagements with host countries in the most benign and circumspect way. Even when the circumstances may be uncomplimentary, their [Read More]