Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 September 2022: Many misinformed and ignorant people think that an election is rigged only on the day of polling. They think that protecting their votes on elections day is the key to stopping an election from being rigged. The fact however is that an [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 September 2022: On Saturday September 3rd, 2022, the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone (ECSL) started what is supposed to be the voter registration process ahead of the June 2023 general elections. But the inscription on the document issued at the end of this [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 September 2022: There was frustration and anger in various electoral registration centres across Sierra Leone last weekend, as voters were unable to register because of faulty computers. (Photo Credit: Kerefala Janneh/Xinhua). In several centres in the capital Freetown, voters queued up for many hours waiting to [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 September 2022: Sierra Leone politicians were divided even at independence. Independence festivities were overshadowed by the state of emergency, declared ten days earlier following a campaign of sabotage by the opposition All People’s Congress Party (APC). The APC had been urging that independence should [Read More]
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2022: My heart goes out to the families of the six people who died in the mudslide at Looking Town today Sunday, 28th August 2022. The deceased (a husband, wife and their baby, another child and two men) lived in two adjacent [Read More]
Alan Luke: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2022: Let’s start with the timeline. 11 May 2022, ACC Chair, Francis Ben Kaifala issued press release through social media; 16 May 2022, Femi Claudius Cole writes a robust response to the ACC Press Release in Sierra Leone Telegraph, querying, amongst other issues [Read More]
Ruben Rubadoveski: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2022: In the last four years alone in Sierra Leone, under the presidency of Rtd Brigadier Maada Bio, the police and presidential guards have killed more protesters than they did under the last two presidencies – of Kabba and Koroma, combined (a total [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2022: President Bio has officially announced the setting up of a Special Investigation Committee to look into the causes of the street protests that erupted in several areas of the country on August 10th, 2022, where more than twenty civilians were killed and six police [Read More]
Anne Baber Wallis, Matthew Anderson, and Mark Feldman: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 August 2022: Leaked documents from the Office of the Attorney General of Sierra Leone provide new evidence on joint efforts undertaken by leading government officials and opposition party politicians to prevent Africanist Press from publishing its investigative reports on corruption [Read More]
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