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In Focus

Rights group CHRDI alleges serious corruption within the Sierra Leone Anti -Corruption Commission 

January 3, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 January 2017   Rights advocacy group in Sierra Leone – Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI), last week published what it says is a damning report alleging serious corruption within the country’s anti-graft agency – the ACC. According to the CHRDI report, “…the ACC [Read More]

In Focus

The ghost of the Obama administration – a dilemma for Donald Trump

January 2, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 January 2017 When the three Wise men visited baby Jesus at this time of the year, they brought with them gold, frankincense and myrrh. The three gifts had a spiritual meaning: gold as a symbol of kingship on earth, frankincense (incense) as a symbol [Read More]

Election Watch

President Koroma rallies the faithful as elections in Sierra Leone beckons

January 1, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2017 Speaking in what will be regarded as one of his shortest New Year messages to the people of Sierra Leone, it is clear that this is equally president Koroma’s most important effort at rallying not only his ruling party faithful, but millions of cash [Read More]

In Focus

Sierra Leone presidential hopeful Alie Kabba’s New Year message of hope to the people

January 1, 2017 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Alie Kabba Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 January 2017 Fellow Sierra Leoneans, I want to wish you all a truly happy and hope-filled 2017. May the peace and blessings of the Almighty abundantly flow in the direction of those who are genuinely doing everything to make our country a better place [Read More]

Election Watch

Peace in the Gambia will be costly – but is it worth the expense?

December 30, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Abdulai Mansaray Sierra Leone Telegraph:  30 December 2016 Despite attempts by West African regional heads of state to reason with Jammeh, he remains strong headed in his desire to cling on to power. This is borne out of hubris. We are all victims of our own hubris at times. Some [Read More]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone’s social welfare minister Blyden sets standard of transparency, openness and accountability

December 29, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 7

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2016 Few ministers, if any in Sierra Leone – including the president, have gone all out to ensure that as a matter of duty they routinely inform their paymaster the tax payer about their daily work activity. But as many Sierra Leoneans would admit, only [Read More]

In Focus

Are these the top one hundred most influential Sierra Leoneans of 2016?

December 27, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 13

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 December 2016  Every year as the world says goodbye to the end of the year and welcomes the new, after Santa Claus has come and gone, it seems some people’s brain go into overdrive, as they struggle to reconcile reality from fiction. It is also a [Read More]

Obituary

Sierra Leone Bar Association mourns the death of Barrister Imran Rahman

December 25, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 December 2016 Families and communities across Sierra Leone will today – Christmas Day, be mourning the deaths of Barrister Imran Rahman and the country’s former head of the military Lieutenant-General Samuel Omar Williams, after both were gruesomely killed by armed attackers in their homes. Speaking yesterday [Read More]

Obituary

Sierra Leone is fast becoming the murder capital of West Africa

December 24, 2016 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 December 2016 Communities around Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone are tonight gripped by fear and shock after the brutal murder last night of another well know public figure –  the highly acclaimed Barrister Imran Rahman. (Photo: President Ernest Bai Koroma). The former Magistrate and Barrister [Read More]

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