Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2021: General and presidential elections may be two years away, when all citizens are expected to go out to vote. But to be able to do, they will first need to register or reconfirm their citizenship with the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA). The Confirmation [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2021: Am emergency sitting of Sierra Leone’s parliament taking place at the Bintumani Conference Hall in Aberdeen, Freetown, summoned by president Julius Maada Bio, is at a standstill, as opposition APC MPs are refusing to allow the session to go ahead. Today, and once again, [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2021: Last week, Sierra Leone’s political parties’ watchdog – the Political Parties Registration Commission (PPRC), published a scathing report criticising the ruling SLPP for its undemocratic approach in conducting its district level elections, ahead of a national convention that will elect the party’s 2023 presidential [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2021: As opposition parties’ scepticism grows over the SLPP government’s intention to conduct a national census in the next few weeks, amid fear that the Bio-led government is planning to inflate the population in its political stronghold and possibly create new constituencies that will increase [Read More]

Gregory Simpkins: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2021: The decision by Sierra Leone to shut down the operations of U.S.-owned SL Mining has called into question that government’s commitment to the rule of law with regard to foreign investors. Since the mid-1990s, the U.S. Government has initiated various programs to [Read More]

Access Now & CHRDI: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2021: Access Now and Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) write to the honorable Speaker of Sierra Leone’s House of Parliament, Dr Abass Bundu, and Minister of Information and Communication, Mr. Mohamed Rahman Swaray, to express our concern over [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 April 2021: After the shooting dead by police on Thursday of an unarmed young man – Alpha Kargbo in a private land dispute in Hastings that did not concern the police, there is growing call for the sacking of the Inspector General of Police who seems [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2023: Just when you think that the ink is about to dry on the latest report by the Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone into police brutality at a student demonstration in Freetown last Monday, where heavily armed police officers fired shots at protesting students [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2021: Parlaimentarians in Sierra Leone received a surprised notice from the Clerk of Parliament yesterday, saying that president Julius Maada Bio is convening an “emergency sitting” of all parliamentarians next Monday – 19th April 2021. There is no indication of what the emergency meeting is [Read More]