Article 19: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 October 2020: Two weeks ahead of the presidential election, ARTICLE 19 warns that the government of Guinea by appointing a President of the media regulatory  authority ‘Haute Autorité de Communication (HAC)’ has taken steps that undermine the independence of the media. The new Parliament [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 October 2020: Two weeks ago, leaders of the West African regional block – ECOWAS, agreed to continue their economic embargo imposed on Mali after the country’s military leaders overthrew the government and arrested the president. But since then, there has been a gradual return to normality, [Read More]

Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6th October 2020: Again, Ernest Bai Koroma and his fellow All People’s Congress have cast a shadow on the Sierra Leonean project, reminding us just how fragile – some might say flawed – our institutions and constitutional order is. We are a country of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2020: President Bio has today suspended all civil servants and public officials accused “of acting improperly with respect to the use of public funds” by the Commission of Inquiry. Two of those affected by the president’s decision, are his minister of agriculture – Dennis Vandi [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2020: The U.S. embassy in Freetown, Sierra Leone today published a security alert advising its staff and American citizens to avoid the central districts of Freetown the country’s capital, and Makeni in the north – hometown of the former president Ernest Bai Koroma. According to [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s speaker of parliament – Dr Abass Bundu, has reacted badly to perception survey results published by two of the country’s most reputable civil society groups, which show that parliamentarians are the second most corrupt officials in Sierra Leone after police officers. (Photo [Read More]

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2020: “We have had several Commissions of Inquiry in post-independence Sierra Leone. But Sierra Leoneans seem to have learnt little to nothing from those past Commissions of Inquiry. We are determined to make this the last Commissions of Inquiry in this country. This [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2020: As political fallout continues, between the government of Sierra Leone and the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party over the recommendations of the Commission of Inquiry reports and the White Paper into corruption allegations against the former APC government led by president Ernest [Read More]