Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 October 2020: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established in 2002 urged the Government of Sierra Leone to give “serious consideration” to the creation of a “new constitution”, in order to contribute to human rights and democracy in the country. All the political [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 October 2020: After receiving widespread condemnation for his supporters’ behaviour last Thursday outside his home in Makeni, where hundreds of angry youths staged protests and blocked the road leading to his house, to prevent Anti-Corruption Commission investigators from meeting with him, former president of Sierra Leone [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2020: Sierra Leone police have arrested a group of people they believe are behind the organised human shield that was mobilised outside the home of former president Ernest Bai Koroma that prevented Anti-Corruption investigators from attending a scheduled meeting with the former president at his [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2020: Last Friday, president Dr Julius Maada Bio told government officials at a one-day seminar, on “Midterm Performance and Evaluation of the New Direction Government”, that his government will cater for every Sierra Leonean through an inclusive governance model that leaves no one behind. Speaking [Read More]
Lansana Fofanah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2020: Fighting corruption has always been a war between “us versus them” – those bent on suffocating corruption and those fighting to keep their loots. For many parts of the world, fighting corruption is a matter of life and death as it has become [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s Inspector General of Police – Ambrose Sovula is tonight being accused by supporters of the former president Ernest Bai Koroma of surreptitiously recording a conversation he had last Thursday with former president Koroma, and then today leaked the audio recording on social [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2020: A new knowledge brief released by Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) highlights how a health crisis like COVID-19 threatens to derail progress on providing energy access to countries that need it most, compromising both an effective response to the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2020: Driven by the economic fallout of the COVID-19 global pandemic, growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is predicted to fall to -3.3 percent in 2020, pushing the region into its first recession in 25 years, according to the latest regional economic analysis Africa’s Pulse: Charting the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 October 2020: Yesterday, Saturday 10th October, Advocacy for Mental Health and Human Rights (AMHHR) joined hands to observe World Mental Health Day to raise awareness on mental health issues around the world and mobilise efforts in support of mental health, particularly in Sierra Leone. The organisation [Read More]
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