Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 April 2018: The argument that the APC has more seats than the SLPP in parliament because it created extra seats in its strongholds is totally wrong. The parliamentary seat distribution tracks fairly well the distribution of registered voters and even the distribution of actual [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 April 2018: It is now one month since elections were held in Sierra Leone; and twenty-four days, since the newly elected president Julius Maada Bio took office. But reports of political violence and instability continue to dominate the news, including troubling allegation of attack on the [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2018: Fifty-seven years ago, on the 27th of April 1961, Sierra Leone gained independence from British colonial rule. It was a day that was full of hope and promise. A new dawn, that brought dreams of  a vibrant, developing and confident Sierra Leone, where no one [Read More]

Puawui – Dr. Sama Banya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2018: There is a story that a member of the nobility went across the border from England into Scotland, and stayed with another noble family. Not far from where he and his little boy stayed was a farm with a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 April 2018: The last twelve months have been excruciatingly tough for ordinary Sierra Leoneans. The previous APC government, led by president Koroma, ran the economy into bankruptcy before being thrown out of office at the ballot box last month. Inflation – prices of basic necessities, have [Read More]

Anthony Kamara Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 April 2018: Members of Parliament representing Kambia District under the National Grand Coalition (NGC) party have today taken the oath of office, becoming full-fledged representatives of the Sierra Leone House of Parliament. Hon. Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella, NGC parliamentary caucus leader representing Constituency [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2018: Sierra Leone’s parliament was officially opened today, as MPs from across the political divide took their seats, except for the 68 MPs representing the main opposition APC who refused to obey the Clerk of Parliament when called to order. And it got worse. At [Read More]

Author: Thomas Moore Conteh  (CAN): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2018: The Citizens Advocacy Network (hereinafter referred to as CAN) is greatly disturbed by the “opera of petitioning” that has punctuated our governance temperature; in the wake of urgent  expectations to press the progress button after a delayed and snail-like electioneering [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2018: The parliament of Sierra Leone was to have been opened with pomp and pageantry today Tuesday, 24 April 2018, for the swearing of newly elected MPs and the election of a new Speaker of the House. Instead, there were dramatic scenes of chaos, as [Read More]