Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2018: Voters of Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown have voted in a new Mayor – Mrs Yvonne Aki-Sawyer, who polled almost 60% to win a resounding victory. But the tasks ahead for the new mayor are enormously clear, including tackling the city’s mounting domestic waste that [Read More]
Daniel Moshenberg: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2018: The last 12 months have been bracketed by two catastrophic, and predictable, events: the collapse of the Koshe Garbage landfill on March 11, 2017, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and the collapse of the Hulene Garbage landfill on February 19, 2018, in Maputo, Mozambique. 115 people were [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 March 2018: There has been no official reaction from Dr. Yumkella and his lawyers to the ruling APC party’s decision announced yesterday to drop its Supreme Court case – nolle prosequi. The court hearing was brought by APC’s David Fornah to clarify legislative and constitutional rules [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2018: As the presidential runoff election campaign and horse trading intensify in Sierra Leone, the ruling APC has pulled off a master-stroke by today announcing that the Supreme Court case brought by one of its supporters – Mr David Fornah, challenging Dr Yumkella’s right to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 March 2018: Calls for a peaceful, free, fair and credible runoff election next week in Sierra Leone are growing, as well as condemnation of the increasing use of violence, intimidation and tribalism by political actors to deny voters their constitutional rights. The President of the ECOWAS [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2018: On the 3rd of July 2017, after months of speculation about whether and how long Dr. Kandeh Yumkella will continue to put up with the harassment and violence that he and some of his supporters had been subjected to by extremists within the opposition [Read More]
Santhkie Sorie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 March 2018: The decision not to support any of the two parties slugging it out at the runoff next Tuesday, 27 March 2018, is precisely what I expected and wanted from the leadership of the National Grand Coalition (NGC). It shows the type of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 March 2018: After weeks of agonising wait by members and supporters of the opposition National Grand Coalition (NGC) party, regarding the announcement of the party leadership’s position on next week’s election runoff, the suspense is over. Its official – Yumkella and his NGC party will not [Read More]
Author: Abdulai Mansaray: 21 March 2018: Sierra Leone’s 2018 presidential election has gone to a run-off taking place next Tuesday, 27th March. No single party was able to win the 55% majority needed. But again, like all elections around the world, fraud, malpractice, violations and allegations always become the currency [Read More]
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