Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2022: Mohamed Sidi Tunis, Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, said on Friday in Dakar that decriminalization of opposition parties doing their function needs to be addressed. He was speaking at the Sub-regional Dialogue on Sustaining Democratic Principles in West Africa as a panellist in the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2022: The West Africa Elders Forum (WEAF) this week held a two-day dialogue in Dakar, Senegal where they discussed peace, security and democracy in the subregion. The event was inspired by recent reversals in democratic good governance. Established by the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, the Forum [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2022: Speaking in Dakar, Senegal this week, former President of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, said that despite pressures for him to change the country’s Constitution to run for a third term, he refused because he did not believe its the right thing to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 May 2022: With just over a year before presidential and general elections are held in Sierra Leone, President Bio yesterday delivered his final state of the nation report at the state opening of the country’s parliament. Speaking to a full House with much heckling from opposition [Read More]

Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 May 2022: Four years ago today, on 11th May 2018, I was sworn-in as the Mayor of Freetown. I am grateful to God, to the APC party and to the great people of this city for giving me this opportunity to serve [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 May 2022: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has launched Sierra Leone’s bid for a seat in the non-permanent category of the United Nations Security Council, UNSC, for the period 2024-2025. In his statement, President Bio recalled that in just eight years after Sierra Leone became a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 May 2022: Alhaji Kemoh Sesay, former transport and aviation minister in the Koroma-led government appeared at the magistrate court in Freetown today, after spending a few days in jail accused of insulting President Maada Bio. Sesay was captured in a video which went viral on social [Read More]

Cornelius Oguntola Melvin Deveaux: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 May 2022: The ruling of Justice Adrian Fisher in the matter between Alfred Peter Conteh versus Ernest Bai Koroma, Osman Foday Yansaneh, All Peoples Congress, and the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC) is exciting, daunting, and flummoxed. It aroused overwhelming and intimidating [Read More]