Luisa T. Schneider: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 April 2019: The president of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio has declared a national emergency on rape and sexual violence following a public outcry over the high number of rapes of young girls in the West African country. According to the country’s police, there were over [Read More]
Abdulai Braima: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2019: Education, education, education – that was the theme of a meeting held at the Sierra Leone High Commission in London, UK last Thursday, 4th April 2019, as part of the ongoing work by the High Commission to establish a platform, through which [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April 2019: Former president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, is in Portugal where he spoke yesterday as guest of the 2019 Horasis Global Meeting taking place in Cascais, Portugal. The three-day event which kicked off yesterday 6th April 2019, is co-chaired by the former [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 April 2019: Sierra Leone’s judiciary was rocked yesterday after news of the indictment of the country’s Registrar and Master of the High Court of Sierra Leone on various corruption charges, including the embezzlement of Le60,000,000 received in court fines. According to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), on [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 April 2019: Yesterday, Thursday 4th April 2019, the parliament of Sierra Leone debated and committed a Bill entitled – “The Anti-Corruption Amendment Act 2019″ to its Legislative Committee for further scrutiny. The Bill which was tabled in parliament by the Deputy Attorney General and Minister of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2019: There are mixed reactions today as the SLPP party celebrates one year in office, since winning the presidential elections held in March 2018. But the debate about the SLPP government’s performance report card is highly polarised by bitter argument between the main opposition APC [Read More]
Campaign for Good Governance: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2019: As 4th April 2019 marks one year in office of the new government, Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) takes the opportunity to reflect on key governance trends, with a purpose to make governance better in Sierra Leone. We commend the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2019: Exactly a year ago, president Julius Maada Bio took office after a nail-biting presidential election which saw his SLPP party winning State House, but failed to gain control of the country’s parliament. Twelve months on, there has been very little shift in general public [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 April 2019: Last weekend former president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, announced his surprised re-entry into national politics, despite promising to take a back seat as leader and chairman of his defeated APC party at last year’s elections. But yesterday, as he resumed office at [Read More]
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