Politics & Law

Sheikh Umarr Kamarah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 December 2017: Many have either wondered, or asked the question, “What is new about the National Grand Coalition?” It is a fair question, considering the plethora of political parties that springs up every election cycle, only to either evaporate to smithereens under the [Read More]

Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 December 2017 On a visit to Sierra Leone in 2010, I travelled the length and breadth of Freetown. I observed the economic activity and social interactions. I listened to political conversations, and was able to form a judgement about the rate and pace of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2017: Freetown was brought to a standstill on the 14th of August 2017, when a massive mudslide caused by heavy rains after many years of deforestation by illegal settlers, killed about a thousand people and hundreds injured, including children. Thousands of homes were destroyed, leaving [Read More]

The ECOWAS Youth Council: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2017: The ECOWAS Youth Council (EYC), after extensive deliberation and regional consultation, is using this medium to call on the Government of the Republic of Sierra Leone, led by His Excellency Ernest Bai Koroma, to respect and honour the ruling of [Read More]

Franklyn Davies: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2017: Following the disastrous re-launch of the Port Loko Bankasoka Dam by the ruling APC government to score cheap popularity and political points, questions abound the day after – inside State House, about who was to blame for the fiasco. The ruling party’s [Read More]

Lansana Gberie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 December 2017: Perhaps no major political or humanitarian disaster is as overlooked as the ongoing crisis in Libya. For example, although the New York Times in September 2017 published a total of seven articles mentioning Libya, only one of them touched on the violence [Read More]

SLPP Media Team: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 December 2017 He was passionate, confident and assuring as he addressed hundreds of Sierra Leoneans at the prestigious Royal Regency Hall in London on Saturday 9th December 2017 with a very simple message that as the next President it will not be business [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 December 2017: The controversial former minister of lands in the Koroma government – Musa Tarawallie, and now an aspiring presidential candidate of the newly established opposition party – the Citizens Democratic Coalition (CDC) was arrested last night and detained by the Sierra Leone Police at the [Read More]

Lawyer Adikalie Foday Sumah , ESQ: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 December 2017: The recent political development in Sierra Leone sparked by the determination of the Community Court of Justice (hereinafter referred to the CCJ) of the Regional Multilateral Body, the Economic Community of West African States (hereinafter referred to as [Read More]