Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2019: There are mixed reactions today as the SLPP party celebrates one year in office, since winning the presidential elections held in March 2018. But the debate about the SLPP government’s performance report card is highly polarised by bitter argument between the main opposition APC [Read More]
Campaign for Good Governance: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2019: As 4th April 2019 marks one year in office of the new government, Campaign for Good Governance (CGG) takes the opportunity to reflect on key governance trends, with a purpose to make governance better in Sierra Leone. We commend the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 April 2019: Exactly a year ago, president Julius Maada Bio took office after a nail-biting presidential election which saw his SLPP party winning State House, but failed to gain control of the country’s parliament. Twelve months on, there has been very little shift in general public [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 April 2019: Last weekend former president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma, announced his surprised re-entry into national politics, despite promising to take a back seat as leader and chairman of his defeated APC party at last year’s elections. But yesterday, as he resumed office at [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 April 2019: Following a recent televised BBC documentary which shows China’s fishing fleet taking advantage of weak and porous monitoring systems in Sierra Leone, the government of Sierra Leone has this week passed a moratorium on all industrial fishing along its waters. The BBC documentary – [Read More]
Mohamed Massaquoi (Mass): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 April 2019: In the wake of that shocking electoral defeat in its traditional stronghold of Tonko Limba, the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC), was left in confusion and internal brawl, and with difficulty in focusing on anything productive but rather turning its [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 April 2019: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation (MIF) will hold its flagship annual event, the Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW) from 4-7 April 2019, in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (Sofitel Hôtel Ivoire). This year, the weekend will focus on the key topic of African migrations. It will feature an African-led [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 April 2019: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) last Saturday, 27th March 2019, charged the country’s Director of Surveys and Lands at the Ministry of Lands, Country Planning and the Environment – with one count of Abuse of Office contrary to Section 42(1) of the Anti-Corruption Act [Read More]
Cyril Barnes: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 March 2019: About a year ago the people of Sierra Leone decided to vote for the Rtd. Brig. Julius Maada Bio as president, making him the fifth democratically elected President of the small mineral-rich West African nation. Dubbed the ‘actualization of a dream too [Read More]
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