Politics

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2023: Bai Mahmoud Bangura, the National Organising Secretary of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party was yesterday arrested at his residence by armed police, as the wave of arrests of senior APC officials continues in response to what the government says was an attempted coup [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2023: Two senior members of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations – Ranking Member James E. Risch and Chairman Christopher Coons, have written a damning letter to the Board of the US Millenium Challenge Corporation expressing their deep concern at the US government’s [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2023: Secretary General of the opposition All People’s Congress (APC) Party – Lansana Dumbuya, on Monday issued a public statement condemning the armed attack that took place in Freetown last Sunday morning, which saw the killing and arrest of dozens of people, many of whom [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2023: President Julius Maada Bio on Monday received a delegation from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Commission and the Government of Nigeria, following Sunday’s round of heavy gunfire, prisons breakout and the arrest and killing of dozens of members of the opposition [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2023: Sierra Leone’s senior military commanders and the minister of information today spoke at a press conference for the first time since the attempted coup last Sunday 26th November 2023. Chernor Bah, minister of information confirmed that the armed attack at the Wilberforce military ammunition [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28th November 2023: Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr today chaired the 2nd Ordinary Meeting of the Fifth Council of the Freetown City Council. After the meeting she said: “We’ve had a very spirited engagement with the full involvement of the Deputy Mayor, Councillors, the new Chief Administrator and the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2023: When the wife of President Bio announced a while ago that the president has a PhD in staging coups, many dismissed her as a buffoon. But since then, there has been no fewer than three alleged attempted coups in Sierra Leone in which, despite [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 November 2023: President Bio of Sierra Leone has this morning declared curfew as the country’s military and armed police take to the streets to stabilise the capital, following an attempted coup by unknown persons. Addressing the nation through his Facebook page, president Bio whose whereabout is [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2023: President Bio has officially welcomed members of the Cross-Party National Elections Review Committee which has been set up in line with the peace accord signed by the ruling SLPP and the main opposition APC last month, marking the end of hostilities between the two [Read More]