Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2023: The Head of the ECOWAS Elections Observer Mission (HoM) to the Federal Republic of Nigeria arrived this morning at the ECOWAS HQ, in Abuja. Received by the President of the Commission, Dr Umarr Alieu Touray, and the vice President, Mrs Damtien [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2023: Several opposition supporters have been seriously injured, including the newly elected National Secretary General of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party – Lansana Dumbuya and his driver, when heavily armed soldiers stopped their vehicle in a convey carrying the party’s newly elected presidential candidate [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 February 2023: Former President of Sierra Leone, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, yesterday departed Sierra Leone for Nigeria to lead the ECOWAS elections observation mission (EOM) to that West African country. With a population of over 213 million people, Nigeria is Africa’s most populated [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 February 2023: Dr Samura Kamara, the presidential candidate of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party, who in 2018 lost to Julius Maada Bio of the SLPP by a very narrow three percentage points, will once again lead his party into the June 24th 2023 elections as [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 February 2023: As we await the conclusion of the counting of ballots for the position of Presidential candidate, the results for National Chairmanship are as follows: Dauda Tombo Bangura with 35 votes; Ibrahim Rasin Bundu – 14 votes; Abdul Karim Kalokoh – 225 [Read More]
Mohamed Gibril Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: There are several imperatives, considerations, and trade-offs that must be taken into account by those seeking the APC presidential ticket if they are to succeed in winning the support of party members as well as those who lean towards APC across [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: President Dr Julius Maada Bio gave a keynote address at the launching of the first edition of the ‘Education in Africa’ report, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, and the African Union, on the margins of the Africa Assembly [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: Speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday Saturday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio shared Sierra Leone’s experience with Ebola, successes with Covid-19 and efforts at creating public health agencies and using early warning systems. “The main lesson for us in Sierra Leone is a clear [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmoud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2023: Earlier today in Makeni, former President Koroma addressed the opening ceremony of the All Peoples Congress (APC) National Delegates’ Conference (NDC). Bearing in mind that the APC is widely expected to win the June 24 elections, former president Koroma spoke strongly [Read More]
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