Editorials

Memuna Forna: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 October 2020: For cities across the world, the mainstay of local funding is some sort of property-based tax system. It is how they pay for improvements and the services they provide. If you want to know how cities survive without a functioning property-based tax [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 October 2020: Former president Koroma of Sierra Leone has received an order from the country’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to attend an investigation at their office in Freetown next Monday. According to the ACC, the investigation will probe into allegations of corruption and abuse of office, made [Read More]

Sierra Leone: 30 September 2020: Many Sierra Leoneans as well as international donors were appalled at the devastating misappropriation of millions of dollars meant for those dying of the Ebola virus that struck Sierra Leone in 2013/2014, as thousands perished because of lack of medical care. An investigation conducted by [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2020: The Attorney General of Sierra Leone – Anthony Brewah, has issued travel ban on the former president of the country – Dr Ernest Bai Koroma, along with scores of ministers and senior public officials who served under his government before his ruling party was [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2020: As Sierra Leoneans try to make sense of the hundreds of pages of indictment and accusations of corruption listed in the Commissions of Inquiry reports published last week by the government, some former senior officials in the erstwhile Koroma government (Photo above: Karefa Kargbo) [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2020: Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party whose members, including its leadership have been indicted by the Commissions of Inquiry into corruption and abuse of office by the former APC government, yesterday published a statement in response to the government’s decision to confiscate their assets [Read More]

ARTICLE 19: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 September 2020: ARTICLE 19 urges the Cameroonian authorities to investigate the excessive use of force during peaceful protests in Yaounde and other cities in Cameroon on 22 September 2020. They must immediately release all protesters who were arrested solely for expressing their opinion and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 September 2020: Mali’s new president was sworn in yesterday, Friday, after five weeks of uncertainty following a military led coup which saw the overthrow of Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. The new president who is 70-year-old former Defence Minister – Bah Ndaw (Photo above in white), was selected [Read More]