Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2017 There was jubilation across The Gambia last night when reports of the former dictator Yahya Jammeh’s departure from the country were published. As the images of Jammeh boarding a plane bound for Guinea spread like wild fire, the people of The Gambia waved [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2017 There are serious doubts tonight as to whether former president of The Gambia Yahya Jammeh has agreed to step down and leave the country, so as to allow the democratically elected president Adama Barrow to return from exile in neighbouring Senegal to form his [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2017 In the next few hours the world will witness two very ugly faces of democracy, from across the Atlantic – one in Africa and the other in the USA. In America preparations are being made for the inauguration of Donald Trump – the controversial [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 January 2017 Doubts and concerns about the effectiveness and good governance of Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) are refusing to go away. One of the country’s human rights advocacy groups – the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) is tonight accusing the ACC of [Read More]
Abdul-Jalilu Ateku Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 January 2017 In further escalation of the post-election crisis in The Gambia, President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency just a day before his official mandate was due to come to an end (Today, 19th January 2017). The announcement followed reports that a Nigerian warship was deployed off the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2017 On this – the eve of Jammeh’s final day in power, the world waits to see whether he will step down from office tomorrow in line with the country’s constitution and the democratic will of the majority of Gambians who voted against him last [Read More]
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]
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