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  • [ March 25, 2026 ] Sierra Leone’s ruling SLPP threatens to replace the capital’s elected Mayor Aki-Sawyerr Politics & Law
  • [ March 25, 2026 ] Global education progress masks deepening gaps in sub-Saharan Africa, says UNESCO 2026 Global Monitoring Education Report Education and Health
  • [ March 25, 2026 ] Sierra Leone – Empty seats, silent councils and the price citizens are paying – Op ed Politics & Law
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] ECOWAS Commission President meets with the African Union Commission’s Commissioner for Infrastructure Economy & Business
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] Sierra Leone’s former chief minister – David Francis’s “governing a poor country”- mea culpa or ex culpa? In Focus
  • [ March 20, 2026 ] Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr celebrates Eid with Muslims across the country In Focus
  • [ March 17, 2026 ] Sierra Leone Politics – Is a gentleman’s agreement with a government legally binding? – Op ed Politics & Law
  • [ March 16, 2026 ] Coalition of ministers, educators, developers, and researchers unites to end fragmentation and deliver the AUDA-NEPAD EdTech Vision 2030 for 200 million African learners Education and Health

Politics & Law

As Libya crisis escalates – the UN and the AU search for solutions

December 14, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Lansana Gberie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2017: Perhaps no major political or humanitarian disaster is as overlooked as the ongoing crisis in Libya. For example, although the New York Times in September 2017 published a total of seven articles mentioning Libya, only one of them touched on the violence [Read More]

Election Watch

Election candidates in Sierra Leone should make human rights pledge – says Amnesty

December 13, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 December 2017: Political parties and candidates in next year’s elections should commit to the protection and promotion of human rights in Sierra Leone as a key objective if elected to office, said Amnesty International and over 40 Sierra Leonean civil society organizations today, in a document [Read More]

Politics & Law

It will not be business as usual  – Bio assures diaspora

December 13, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

SLPP Media Team: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 December 2017 He was passionate, confident and assuring as he addressed hundreds of Sierra Leoneans at the prestigious Royal Regency Hall in London on Saturday 9th December 2017 with a very simple message that as the next President it will not be business [Read More]

Election Watch

Ruling APC presidential candidate Samura Kamara caught sleeping on the job

December 13, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Franklyn Davies: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 December 2017: In Port Loko yesterday, 12th of December, Sierra Leoneans assured President Koroma loud and clear: “We Know Samura Kamara, and he is a sleeping old man struggling for your third term in Office”. It is often said that God works in a [Read More]

Economy & Business

IMF approves US170 million funding for Guinea to tackle poverty

December 12, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2017: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved a three-year funding package, under the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) for Guinea for an amount equivalent to SDR 120.488 million (about US$170 million, or 56.25 percent of Guinea’s quota). The funding will support Guinea’s 2016–20 [Read More]

Politics & Law

Opposition presidential candidate – Musa Tarawallie arrested in Sierra Leone

December 12, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2017: The controversial former minister of lands in the Koroma government – Musa Tarawallie, and now an aspiring presidential candidate of the newly established opposition party – the Citizens Democratic Coalition (CDC) was arrested last night and detained by the Sierra Leone Police at the [Read More]

Election Watch

Yumkella preaches “Sierra Leone First” as NGC makes in-road in Southeast

December 12, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

NGC Media Team: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2017: Kandeh Yumkella, Presidential standard-bearer for the National Grand Coalition (NGC), visited the SLPP’s stronghold of Segbewema in Kailahun District, last Sunday, 10th December 2017. Flanked by hundreds of NGC supporters who lined up the highway of Tondola to welcome him and [Read More]

Election Watch

Sierra Leone 2018 elections – taking parliament and losing the presidency

December 11, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, OOR: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2017 Sierra Leone’s Western Area is the district most famous for swing voting. In 1996 and 2002 elections, the SLPP got the highest percentage of votes in the Western Area. In 2002, the SLPP got 60% of the Western Area [Read More]

Politics & Law

Legal opinion on the matter of Sam Sumana V Government of Sierra Leone

December 11, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Lawyer Adikalie Foday Sumah , ESQ: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2017: The recent political development in Sierra Leone sparked by the determination of the Community Court of Justice (hereinafter referred to the CCJ) of the Regional Multilateral Body, the Economic Community of West African States (hereinafter referred to as [Read More]

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