Politics & Law

Sierra Eye: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 December 2024: Sierra Leone’s Parliament yesterday voted by a two-thirds majority (100/136) of members present to approve the removal of Auditor-General Lara Taylor-Pearce and her deputy, Tamba Momoh, marking a significant and controversial development in the country’s governance. Earlier in the session, the Clerk [Read More]

Dr Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 December 2024: Sierra Leone witnessed a deeply unsettling moment in its history yesterday when Parliament voted to remove Auditor General Lara Taylor-Pearce and her deputy, Tamba Momoh, from office. The decision came after years of scrutiny and allegations that they had failed to uphold [Read More]

Mackie M. Jalloh: 18 December 2024: The Audit Service Sierra Leone (ASSL) has officially submitted its 2023 Auditor-General’s Annual Report on the Accounts of Sierra Leone to Parliament. This report, covering the fiscal year that ended on December 31, 2023, was presented to lawmakers last week, and will soon be [Read More]

Ibrahim B. Koroma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2024: Rebranding is a marketing strategy that involves changing a company’s identity to create a new brand image. For example, developing a new name, logo or symbol. Rebranding a country is the process of re-developing and marketing a place to give it a [Read More]

Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2024: The Fullah Progressive Union (FPU) strongly denounces the wave of harassment, ethnic profiling, and wrongful detention of peaceful Fullah Sierra Leoneans, which began on Sunday, December 15, 2024, in Freetown and has now reportedly spread to Waterloo, Kono, and other parts [Read More]

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2024: The recent deportation of Sierra Leoneans from Guinea has triggered a retaliatory response from the Sierra Leonean government. This reaction has manifested in the arbitrary arrest and deportation of Guineans – or Sierra Leoneans mistakenly identified as Guineans – back across [Read More]

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2024: Sierra Leone stands on the precipice of despair, its people gasping for breath under the weight of a system built on lies, corruption, and gross mismanagement. President Julius Maada Bio and his government, along with a complicit international community, have treated [Read More]

Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2024: Although it is early yet to pre-empt who might bear the SLPP flag in 2028, it could be reasonably surmised that the current Vice President, Mohammed Juldeh Jalloh, a Sierra Leonean Fula, would be one of the frontline contenders. If that happens, [Read More]

Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2024: Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella’s recent exclusion from the SLPP flagbearer race has reignited debates about trust, performance, and betrayal in Sierra Leone’s politics, though no official announcement has been made. Once celebrated as a symbol of change and hope, Yumkella’s decision to [Read More]