Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 May 2019: A national two-day peace and reconciliation conference scheduled by Sierra Leone’s president Julius Maada Bio to commence 23rd May, has been voted down by the country’s main opposition APC party, at a meeting of its national executives, parliamentarians, mayors, chiefs, former ministers and other [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2019: There were ugly violent scenes outside a secondary school in Freetown last week, where pupils ran amok with police officers firing tear gas to control the riotous behavior of the pupils. Dozens of pupils are now in police custody. But there are concerns they [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 May 2019: Forty-one law enforcement officers in Sierra Leone have received expert training on how to identify, investigate, report and prosecute suspected cases of human trafficking. The 5-day training workshop which took place on 6th to 10th of May 2019, was organized by the IOM – [Read More]
Oswald Hanciles: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2019: Bintumani-III (B-3) will debut this week. It’s a fait accompli. To me, the timing of it is another political and public relations blunder by the Bio Administration. It reeks of political capitulation to the majority party in Parliament, the APC – by the SLPP [Read More]
Dr. Mohamed A. Bereteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2019: My concern is that timber export from Sierra Leone can be very damaging, if there are no rehabilitation programs under way. The revenue from timber is of less Importance and benefits to the people of Sierra Leone, in dealing with [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2019: Last Friday, 17 May 2019, president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone arrived in Abidjan, Ivory Coast on a one-day working visit, where he was greeted at the airport by the Ivorian president – Alassane Ouattara. This followed president Bio’s snap visit last week [Read More]
Hon. Habib Bakarr Munda: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2019: Both Bintumani One and Two were contentious. The former was a demand by citizens for the National Provisionary Ruling Council (NPRC) administration to negotiate peace with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF), as citizens had lost trust in the military to [Read More]
PUAWUI- DR SAMA BANYA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2019: “My Lords, Ladies and gentlemen! And members of the fourth estate”. This statement is attributed to Edmund Burke who used it in 1787 in the House of Commons (Parliament) of Great Britain. Burke said that there were three estates of [Read More]
Murray Sandy: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 May 2019: Evidence-based research has irrefutably shown and indeed concluded that there is a direct correlation between corruption and poverty. A respected American business TV news outlet based in New York, Bloomberg, states thus: “Corruption often conjures up images of people getting rich. But [Read More]
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