Politics & Law

U.S. government launch citizen participation in democratic governance and decision-making in Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 October 2023: Last Thursday, October 26, 2023, the United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), launched a new partnership with the government of Sierra Leone to support citizen participation and public access to information in Sierra Leone. The Building Accountability Systems through [Read More]

Economy & Business

Tough macroeconomic policies needed to stabilize Sierra Leone’s economy and address growing poverty – says World Bank

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2023: Sierra Leone’s economy is projected to grow at 3.7 percent on average during 2023–25, below its long-term trend, says a new World Bank Report, published in Freetown last Friday. According to the report, this lower than previously expected growth is “predicated on sound domestic [Read More]

Dele Awoonor-Gordon

From darkness into darkness

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2023: Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. We’re truly moving to an era where a lot of Political-Fiction, will become Political-Fact in the not-too-distant future which would transgress laws, precipitating the intervention of an external squad that would seek to neutralize our [Read More]

Politics & Law

Elected public officials of APC cannot return to governance until all polling station results have been published by ECSL

Sylvanus Fornah Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 October 2023: The return to governance of the All Peoples Congress (APC) elected representatives as stated in the recently signed Communique of the October 16th – 18th, 2023, dialogue between the SLPP government and the main opposition APC, is an issue that is [Read More]

Politics & Law

A communique that has drawn the road map for the resuscitation of justice and democracy in Sierra Leone – A point of view

Sylvanus Fornah Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2023: In the aftermath of the disputed June 24TH 2023 elections in Sierra Leone, a political impasse ensued between the two rival political parties (All Peoples Congress – APC and Sierra Leone People’s Party – SLPP). The opposition party (APC), aggrieved by [Read More]