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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2021: Sierra Leone’s Sexual Offences Model Court Judge Momoh-Jah Stevens, last Wednesday sentenced  Ahmed Issa Kamara (popularly known as Joshua) to five years imprisonment or pay eighty million Leones and a mandatory compensation of twenty million Leones, after he was found guilty of making and [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2021: In the last few weeks, we have been publishing a series of articles from research conducted into the role played by Ambassador Omrie Golley in helping to bring sustainable peace to Sierra Leone during and after a long bitter war. In this the final [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2021: This year, the Global Parliament of Mayors awarded the prestigious Dr. Benjamin Barber Global Cities Award to Mayor Muriel Bowser, mayor of Washington DC, USA, and Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone. The award ceremony was part of the opening of the [Read More]

Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2021: Ambassador Omrie Golley needed all his skills as a British trained Barrister and a committed peace activist, to navigate the heady waters of the renewed peace process that followed the dark days of January 1999, right up until the signing of the [Read More]

Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2021: The Armed forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) coup of May 1997 was short lived. With the assistance of ECOMOG troops, the militia known as the Kamajors, and the support of the sub region and the international community, the late Former President Ahmad Tejan [Read More]

Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2021: Days after the historic meeting in Yamoussoukro, Republic of Ivory Coast in March 1996, the leader of the NPRC Julius Maada Bio, handed over the reign of Government to President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah who swiftly formed a new administration and continued with [Read More]

Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 September 2021: By 1996, it was becoming increasingly clear that ending the war would require tacit diplomacy and a genuine desire by the Sierra Leone Government and its international allies to negotiate with the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). A key proponent of this theory [Read More]

Noellie Marionette-Chambertin: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 September 2021: I am pleased to have been able to play a part in researching the role of Ambassador Omrie Golley in bringing peace to Sierra Leone after a ten-year-old conflict. I met Omrie Golley over ten years ago, through my work as a [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2021: Police are appealing for information to trace a man who has been reported missing from Leeds. Leeds District Police would like to speak to anyone who has seen or has information about Padodou Jatta who is of Gambian origin from Reginald Mount in Leeds, [Read More]