Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: In an open letter dated 18th August 2026, lawyer Melron Nicol-Wilson argues that the passage of the 1991 Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2025 on 10th August 2026 was unconstitutional. The central objection is that the Speaker wrongly applied Section 91(1), which governs ordinary [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: Sungrow, the globally leading PV inverter and energy storage system (ESS) provider, has successfully commissioned the RESPITE Solar-plus-Storage Project in Sierra Leone, marking the country’s first major national-scale power generation project completed and connected to the grid in nearly a decade. The project features [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2026: An investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) into corrupt-related activities at the National Revenue Authority (NRA) reveals that the ASYCUDA system had been seriously compromised, resulting in the loss of over 300 billion leones in government revenue. (Photo: Outgoing NRA Commissioner-General, Jeneba Bangura). The [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its Directorate of Education, Science, and Culture, successfully organized a training workshop on strengthening national institutional capacity for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) stakeholders in Conakry, Guinea, from August 11 to 13, 2026. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2026: Following last week’s political showdown in Sierra Leone’s parliament which saw the opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party, walking out of debate to amend the country’s 1991 Constitution that will see the introduction of sweeping changes, including the lowering of the voting threshold for [Read More]
Albert Olangba Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2026: A developing constitutional dispute in Sierra Leone is raising serious questions about the future of the country’s multiparty democracy, the independence of its electoral system and the safeguards governing amendments to the 1991 Constitution. The controversy follows the Sierra Leone Government’s [Read More]
Gibril Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2026: Sierra Leoneans have every right to ask uncomfortable questions about President Julius Maada Bio’s latest cabinet reshuffle. At the centre of those questions is the appointment of Karefa A. F. Kargbo as Minister of Finance, at a moment when the country is [Read More]
Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2026: For peace to reign in any country, the President and his followers must love and cherish peace. Peace does not begin in the streets. It begins at the very top. A country can have peace agreements, security forces, courts, constitutions and diplomatic [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2026: Tunde Pratt is trapped in a vicious rebel war in a foreign land, battling with his doubts and fears, searching for a way out. He blames himself for getting caught in chaos. But when he witnesses Namineh and her young daughter, Theresa, surrounded by [Read More]
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