Politics & Law

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2022: As President Bio of Sierra Leone and his head of the country’s electoral body face a barrage of criticisms and accusation of usurping the Constitution to usher in District block proportional representation ahead of the 2023 elections, the leader of the opposition parties in [Read More]

Dr. Dennis Bright: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2022: The National Grand Coalition Party (NGC) notes with great interest and concern the decision by the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) as directed by his Excellency the President and communicated in their Press Statement of 21st October 2022, to conduct [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2022: British politics is in danger of becoming the world’s most revered comedy show on the planet. What makes this unenviable accolade glaringly true is the fact that, Britain’s inglorious past of invade, conquer and colonise has been one of the most epoch-making [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2022: Freetown has been selected as a winner of the 2022 C40 Cities Bloomberg Philanthropies Awards under the United to Innovative category, for its climate action project – FreetownTheTreeTown, an initiative that aims to plant, digitally track, and grow one million trees across the capital [Read More]

Alhaji U. Njai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2022: OK, I get the hike in gas prices; an economy in free fall and we are unable to control inflation and excessive rise of the US dollar against our New Leone. What I don’t get is why we are cheated at [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 October 2022: South Korea’s Ambassador to Sierra Leone, Kim Young Chae and his delegation visited the Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr at her office on Tuesday, where they discussed a range of issues including the New City Hall building which was constructed by the Government of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2022: Yesterday, the US Ambassador to Sierra Leone – Mr Rimmer, said on his Twitter feed, that he had “Good discussion this morning with IGP Sellu and his team on security issues in general and on the upcoming elections. US is providing election security training [Read More]

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 October 2022: The Tribunal set up by President Bio to investigate the country’s Auditor-General and her deputy, following their suspension last November resumed yesterday after a lengthy adjournment. In the proceedings, the matter of contention between the State and lawyers for the defendants was [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 October 2022: It was 9am yesterday Monday in Freetown, from where the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph received this poignant message from one of his reporters: “This morning I was taking my sister to Connaught hospital. The area was blocked by armed military  personnel. I [Read More]