Culled from the Scottish Herald Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2016 A new investigation into Police Scotland over the death of a man in custody is being considered by prosecutors. The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) said it has entered talks with the Health and Safety Executive over [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2016 There was frenzy across Sierra Leone’s social media last night, after an unconfirmed report about the imminent arrest of opposition politician – Dr. Alie Kabba (Photo) by the government of Sierra Leone, in advance of his appearance at the High Court in Freetown next [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 February 2016 Four years ago, Sierra Leone’s ruling APC concocted a new elections strategy they say was their winning formula for the 2012 elections. It was called ‘four-for-four’. In Sierra Leone there are four levels of elections, hence the aptly named ‘four-for-four’ campaign slogan was adopted [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2015 Recently, a senior minister in the Koroma government of Sierra Leone – the Minister of Gender and Social Welfare – Moijueh Kaikai, said unequivocally that female circumcision will not be abolished, echoing the views of most politicians,and perhaps that of millions of people up [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2016 Yesterday Saturday, 6th February, 2016 was a special day in the south-eastern Borough of Southwark in London, where members of the Friends of Alie Kabba Campaign Group – UK & Ireland, gathered for a town hall meeting. It was a political meeting like no [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 February 2016 The office of the attorney general and minister of justice of Sierra Leone, today informed the Sierra Leone Telegraph that after just thirty days of being appointed to head that office, Joseph Kamara (Photo), has accelerated access to justice in the country. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 February 2016 Today, 4th of February, 2016, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and five Sierra Leonean rights groups sent a letter to the President of Sierra Leone, urging him to sign the abortion bill passed by Parliament in December 2015. This new law when signed by president Koroma, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 February 2016 The debate as to whether foreign aid is good or bad, or whether it works or not, is as old as the humanitarian gesture itself, and is set to continue, as long as there are donors willing to give and recipients happily ready to [Read More]
Erica Adkins Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 February 2016 Much has been said about the Safe Abortion Act that was recently passed by parliament in Sierra Leone, but now stuck in parliamentary red tape, after president Ernest Bai Koroma refused to give his assent on religious grounds. Religious leaders in the [Read More]
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