Saidu Bangura, PhD: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: There is a widespread political truism in Sierra Leone: both political parties that have (mis)governed the country since independence have regional and ethnolinguistic strongholds. The SLPP seems to have an edge over the APC in the South-Eastern regions of the country [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2023: Prithvirajsing Roopun, President of the Republic of Mauritius, has congratulated Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio for emerging winner in the category of “African of the Year” award and called for a deepening bilateral relationship between the two countries. Both leaders met ahead [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 February 2023: Several opposition supporters have been seriously injured, including the newly elected National Secretary General of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party – Lansana Dumbuya and his driver, when heavily armed soldiers stopped their vehicle in a convey carrying the party’s newly elected presidential candidate [Read More]
Mohamed Gibril Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: There are several imperatives, considerations, and trade-offs that must be taken into account by those seeking the APC presidential ticket if they are to succeed in winning the support of party members as well as those who lean towards APC across [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: President Dr Julius Maada Bio gave a keynote address at the launching of the first edition of the ‘Education in Africa’ report, published by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, and the African Union, on the margins of the Africa Assembly [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 February 2023: Speaking in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia yesterday Saturday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio shared Sierra Leone’s experience with Ebola, successes with Covid-19 and efforts at creating public health agencies and using early warning systems. “The main lesson for us in Sierra Leone is a clear [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2023: Leader of Sierra Leone’s Alliance Democratic Party (ADP), Mohamed Kamarainba, has been found guilty of grooming and having sex with a 15-year old school girl by Judge Samuel Omodale Taylor, at the Appeals Court in Freetown yesterday. According to the prosecution, Kamarainba with the [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ishmail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2023: On Sunday, February 12, at the APC Northern Region headquarter in Makeni, Dr Samura Kamara formally declared his intention to lead the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party into the presidential and general elections slated for June 24, 2023. In [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2023: The recent upsurge in military coups, militant extremist groups and political protestations across Africa has rattled the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States, and the international community at large. Studies show that coups are back, in parts. The [Read More]
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