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]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2023: Last Sunday, 18th June 2023, Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress Party (APC) transformed the capital into a sea of RED as thousands of supporters came out to see their party’s presidential candidate Dr Samura Kamara and mayoral candidate – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, in [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2023: The Commonwealth Observer Group (COG) yesterday launched its election observation activities in Sierra Leone at the Raddison Blue Hotel in Freetown, with a call for peaceful elections that will reflect the will of the people. Speaking at the press conference, the Chairman of the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 June 2023: There are disturbing reports from Bo, Southern Sierra Leone – political heartland of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) where the Party office of the country’s main opposition APC was yesterday burnt to the ground. This comes following a mediation and reconciliation meeting [Read More]