Politics & Law

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]

CHRDI: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 January 2022: Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI), has uncovered credible evidence of corruption, sexual harassment, and serious human rights violations in the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF). During our investigation, we documented over 20 sexual harassment recorded cases and over [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 January 2022: The year 2021 is thankfully behind us. As Sierra Leoneans, we look forward to a much better year in 2022. Like the rest of the World, we were however beset by the COVID-19 pandemic which took away the lives of many family [Read More]

Babatunde Ahonsi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 January 2022: As challenging as last year was in further knocking developing countries like Sierra Leone off the sustainable development track, due largely to the devastating economic impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, 2022 promises to be no better. Among a complex of issues that [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2022: A high-level delegation from the Republic of Mali has today concluded a one-day working visit to Sierra Leone, where they engaged President Dr Julius Maada Bio on the return to constitutional democracy and peace in Mali. Malian Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, [Read More]