Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2020: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), last Wednesday, filed indictment charges against Sahr Kemokai, former Head of Procurement at the Sierra Leone Maritime Administration (SLMA), on nine counts of corruption offences. He was charged to court on three counts of abuse of office, contrary to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2020: David Maurice Panda-Noah, Sierra Leone’s newly appointed Minister of Internal Affairs, yesterday took his oath of office in the presence of President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House, in accordance with Section 57 (Act No. 6) of the 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone. [Read More]
Franck Kuwonu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2020: As students in Kenya were waiting for the government to announce when schools would re-open from a longer than usual April school holidays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they were asked to stay home for an additional four-week period. The situation is [Read More]
Bob Massally: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2020: How low a depth of despair and despondency the SLPP/APC rivalry has sunk is clearly illustrated by a video that has gone viral on Facebook, depicting two Sierra Leoneans, apparently on a manhunt in the streets of Eindhoven, The Netherlands, for the [Read More]
James Juana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2020: I don’t like responding to comments on forum. The moment a comment is made, whether you are saying the right thing or not, some readers look at it from a tribal or political point of view. We are taking ourselves back to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2020: As fears grow over the continuing detention of the former defence minister Palo Conteh, Dr Sylvia Blyden and others, serious questions are now being asked about the government’s refusal to allow close family and legal representatives to see them. It is now almost twenty [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2020: The International Bar Association’s (IBA) Young Lawyers’ Committee and Legal Policy & Research Unit have embarked on a research project aimed at bridging the gap between young legal professionals and older lawyers who are already established in their careers. As part of the initiative, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2020: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of the 2020 intake of Ibrahim Leadership Fellows, who make up the programme’s ninth cohort. The incoming Fellows include Hainan Taifour (Sudan), who joins the International Trade Centre (ITC), Eliam Kadewele (Malawi), who joins [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 May 2020: Politics used to be a battle for the hearts and minds of the public. It is not surprising then that our main political parties are now locked in this battle, to win our hearts and minds. But at what cost? Unfortunately, this [Read More]
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