Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2025: “All power in Sierra Leone belongs to the people who exercise it through their elected representatives.” – 1961 Constitution. The 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone was supposed to be the supreme law of the land – the legal fortress protecting our [Read More]
Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2025: One of the bloodiest conflicts ever in Africa was the rebel war in Sierra Leone from 1990 to 2002. The war which devastated the country’s already crumbling infrastructure also killed over 150,000 people, created a colony of amputees and put the nation’s [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2025: According to the local lore, the song “Koko Ros” was composed by Dr. Orloh, in the wake of a personal rupture – his divorce. On the surface, it is draped in melody and rhythm. Beneath that, it is an allegorical jab [Read More]
Dr Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2025: In any true democracy, civil society is meant to be the voice of the people and the watchdog that keeps government on its toes. But in Sierra Leone, that watchdog seems to have turned into something else entirely. Sierra Leone’s civil society [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 August 2025: The people of Sierra Leone are looking on with dismay, as the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party’s motto – ‘One Country One People’ begins to unravel, following a dramatic, uncouth, and disrespectful display of SLPP members of parliament and the First Lady, at last [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2025: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Group of Twenty cooperation broke new ground with the release of a new publication examining the potential for nuclear power in Africa. The IAEA launched the publication at a side event co-organized with the Clean Energy Ministerial and [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2025: As controversial and debatable as it sounds, hate and revenge have become the palm oil with which politics is eaten today. Revenge politics has now become trendy. What makes is scary is how this has become the modus operandi for most worldly [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2025: The Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) recently concluded its 14th National Delegates Convention in Freetown. This was preceded by regional elections that did not fare without its own catalogue of controversies. A recent social media post by The First Lady left a [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 August 2025: “Democracy is not a spectator sport – It is a shared inheritance that must be defended by all.” The term imperial presidency was once an American cautionary tale – an oxymoron meant to warn against the overconcentration of power in the [Read More]
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