Saad Barrie Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 January 2017 I have never been a fan of President Yayah Jammeh and wouldn’t lose sleep over his fate. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) must however be warned that “regime change” is a serious business. Going in is the easy part. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 January 2017 Police in Freetown are investigating the alleged beating to death of a teenage school boy in the village of Gloucester in the capital Freetown, on the 10th of January, 2017. According to reports, three teenage school boys believed to be known to the deceased [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 January 2017 Presidential and general elections in Sierra Leone are less than fifteen months away. Yet the opposition Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) is far from being ready to contest those elections, let alone position itself as a government in waiting, despite the popularity of the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 January 2017 President Jammeh has less than a week to either make a final stand against the democratic wish of his people, or step down gracefully to allow the newly elected Adama Barrow (Photo) to take over the running of the country. Today as Gambians wait [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 January 2017 Recent disturbing events in the internal affairs of Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the SLPP, culminating two days ago in the alleged shooting of a party supporter outside the High Court in Freetown, continue to threaten the party’s fragile existence. Many in Sierra [Read More]
SLPP UK and Ireland Branch Secretariat Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 January 2017 Following the recent and persistent spate of gross indiscipline and wanton insubordination, culminating in the political infamy of 17th December 2016, we, the bona–fide members of the SLPP United Kingdom and Ireland Region wish it be known by [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 January 2017 President Koroma has made his first visit to Israel since becoming president in 2007, and in less than fifteen months before leaving office. (Photo: Courtesy of epa). His visit to Israel is as symbolic as it is historic. But policy analysts are questioning why [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 January 2017 As the plot thickens over claims and counter claims of the authenticity and ownership of an original Bai Bureh photograph, which the Sierra Leone government minister reverend Kabs Kanu claims to have been donated to him continues, one has to ask: what and who [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 January 2017 Sierra Leone government minister plenipotentiary to the UN – the Reverend Kabs Kanu, who is also the proprietor and editor in chief of the Cocorioko newspaper – published in New Jersey, USA, is being accused of corruption, after a significant historical relic valued at [Read More]
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