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]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2018: With just seven days left before the people of Sierra Leone return to the polling booth to cast their votes in the run-off election scheduled for 27 March 2018, a High Court Summons has been filed by Mr. Ibrahim Sorie Koroma of Port Loko [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2018: In 2012 – five years after elected as president – and his ruling APC party formed a government, on an agenda that promised change and prosperity, Sierra Leone began to crumble. The economy was in decline, despite huge one-off investments by African Minerals and [Read More]
Author: Foday M Daboh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 March 2017: The NGC is faced with the dilemma of choosing between the governing APC and the main opposition SLPP in a runoff election on March 27, 2018. There are some in the party who believe that the NGC should not participate [Read More]
Author: John Mannah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2018: It is an empirical fact that the progressive movement has always been part of the Sierra Leonean political, governmental and economic systems. As such, they have always weighed in, spoken up with pragmatism on the ills and challenges that plague the [Read More]
Author: Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 March 2018: The presidential candidate of the National Grand Coalition (NGC) – Kandeh Yumkella, last week announced that his party is engaged in consultations with its supporters, on the position it should adopt for the presidential run-off election, scheduled for next Tuesday, March [Read More]
Louis Brima Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 March 2018: Reports from Kambia indicate that the National Electoral Commission (NEC) has again requested for a re-count of votes in Kambia District – the same district that Kandeh Yumkella, NGC presidential nominee and parliamentary candidate for Constituency 62, won overwhelmingly by decimating [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 March 2018: Elections in Sierra Leone that are currently underway, have thrown up some of the most bizarre campaign strategies and tactics ever seen in the nation’s history. The Chinese backed ruling APC party proudly referring to its leaders and supporters as Black Chinese, are not [Read More]
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