Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 June 2023: A woman was shot dead inside the offices of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party office yesterday, when police surrounded the building, firing teargas and live ammunition. It is not clear what prompted the firing by the security forces, but according to reports thousands [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 June 2023: Polling closed late into yesterday evening in Sierra Leone  across many areas, due to delays in the delivery of ballot papers in several polling stations. Millions of people had queued-up outside polling centres well before 7am when voting should have commenced. However, in several [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 June 2023: After a late start this morning, over three million registered voters are lining up in long queues at polling stations across Sierra Leone to decide whether President Bio deserves to be re-elected for another five years. Despite promises by the Electoral Commission that polling [Read More]

Dr Samura Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 June 2023: My Fellow Sierra Leoneans, tomorrow Saturday, June 24, is a pivotal day in the history of our beloved nation. It is a day that holds the POWER, THE CHOICE AND OUR CHANCE to shape the future of Sierra Leone and to [Read More]

KeepItOn coalition: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 June 2023: Your Excellency Julius Maada Bio, President of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Nations across Africa and the world must ensure people can access open, secure and free internet when they need it the most — during important national events. This election, we [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 June 2023: With less than twenty-four hours to polling day in Sierra Leone, a unique citizen-led independent opinion poll of almost 7,000 potential voters nationwide, shows that almost one-thirds of voters are staying tight-lipped about their voting intentions, and suggests that a run-off between the incumbent [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 June 2023: The dust is settling outside Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party office, after a young party supporter was shot in the chest and killed, allegedly by the security forces in a street protest involving thousands of APC youths. (Photo above – courtesy of Sierra [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 June 2023: When violence appears to do good, it is temporary and the evil it does is permanent (M. Gandhi). Those who make peaceful revolutions impossible will always make violent revolutions in inevitable. Sierra Leoneans are waking up to scenes and stories they never [Read More]

Concerned Sierra Leone: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2023: In a nation yearning for justice and democratic principles, the recent ordeal of Arthur E Pearce, former NGC Western Area Chairman, has come to symbolize the resilience of Sierra Leone’s political landscape. (Photo: Arthur E Pearce of the AEP Movement, with [Read More]