Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2018: Sierra Leone’s parliament was officially opened today, as MPs from across the political divide took their seats, except for the 68 MPs representing the main opposition APC who refused to obey the Clerk of Parliament when called to order. And it got worse. At [Read More]
Author: Thomas Moore Conteh (CAN): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2018: The Citizens Advocacy Network (hereinafter referred to as CAN) is greatly disturbed by the “opera of petitioning” that has punctuated our governance temperature; in the wake of urgent expectations to press the progress button after a delayed and snail-like electioneering [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2018: The parliament of Sierra Leone was to have been opened with pomp and pageantry today Tuesday, 24 April 2018, for the swearing of newly elected MPs and the election of a new Speaker of the House. Instead, there were dramatic scenes of chaos, as [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 April 2018: The numbers are eye-watering – $2 billion of foreign debt, Le4.9 trillion of internal debt and Le160 billion in domestic banks overdrafts. This was followed by the disappearance of about 4,000 government vehicles, which reads like the plot for the latest in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2018: A serious row has broken out between the ruling SLPP and the former president of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma, after the SLPP National Publicity Secretary – Lahai Lawrence Leema, yesterday accused the former president of holding a secret meeting in his home town [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2018: The view that African presidents can flout the law at will, unencumbered by constitutional or democratic constraints is well ingrained. But a new book by Nic Cheeseman, argues that this is a deeply misleading picture which underestimates Africa’s growing democratisation. This is what he [Read More]
Author: Anthony Kamara Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 April 2018: Like every other newly elected Member of Parliament, Hon. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella arrived at the Tower Hill Houses of Parliament yesterday, April 17 2018 to attend an induction session hosted by the Parliamentary Service Commission in collaboration with the Westminster [Read More]
Author: Yusuf Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: The balance of power in Sierra Leone’s parliament during the next five years, suggests that crafting a stable majority for governance is likely to be tricky, if not messy. The ruling party, the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has 48 seats; the All People’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2018: Mr. Charles Francis Margai who last week was appointed as Sierra Leone’s new Attorney General and Minister of Justice, has today taken his oath of office, witnessed by the president – Retired Brigadier Julius Maada Bio. This is the first time in the country’s [Read More]
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