Editorial

Bio tells Koroma: ‘Your government is rapidly degenerating into a dictatorship’

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2014 The former presidential election candidate of Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party (SLPP) – Julius Maada Bio (Photo), has today made a scathing attack on president Koroma’s record in office. Analysts say that this is the most powerful [Read More]

News in Perspective

Sierra Leone edges closer to a one party state

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2014 Sierra Leone’s Parliament, yesterday elected former ruling APC parliamentary leader and head of government parliamentary business – Sheku B.B Dumbuya as the new speaker of the House. Former speaker and experienced lawyer – Abel Stronge, is said to have fallen on his own [Read More]

News in Perspective

More money poured into Sierra Leone’s big black hole

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 January 2014 In July last year, the World Bank signed a $16 million project financing agreement with the government of Sierra Leone. It said that: “The project will contribute to improving access to electricity in rural areas, through a pilot program for installing PV systems [Read More]

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News in Perspective

Has the international community abandoned civil liberty in Sierra Leone?

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 January 2014 A government that does not respect press freedom cares very little about the civil liberty and human rights of its people. President Koroma of Sierra Leone is now displaying all the hallmarks of a communist style despot. (Photo: Former rebel leader – Johnny [Read More]

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What hope for a better Sierra Leone?

Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 January 2014 There seems to be a rare outbreak of sanity rearing its head in Sierra Leone, where years of gorging on a diet of cheap ethno-religious politics, has clogged all the arteries of our society. But by chance, the most significant [Read More]

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“That resolution was quite simply not my creation” – says Maada Bio

The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 January 2014 Sierra Leone’s main opposition party – the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), came close to annihilating itself last year, following its defeat at the polls in 2012 and the leadership battle that enraged within its senior rank. The argument and rancour which erupted, [Read More]