Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2024: In January 2022, President Julius Maada Bio’s announcement of the Baimba Moiforay (LAC) Clemency revocation ignited a debate about the justice system and processes involved in granting clemency in Sierra Leone. However, two years later, the public remains in the dark, prompting [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2024: Former President of Sierra Leone Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, yesterday afternoon arrived in Abuja, Nigeria on board a plane belonging to the Nigerian president Bola Tinubu, after a month’s standoff between the government of Sierra Leone and ECOWAS, who had demanded the relocation of [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2024: President Bio has tonight addressed the people of Sierra Leone, calling for national unity and continuing dialogue towards peace and national cohesion. His address comes following the decision of the High Court yesterday to grant former President Koroma’s request to leave the country for [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 January 2024: The High Court in Freetown presided by Justice Taylor has granted bail to former President Koroma of Sierra Leone, who his doctors say needs medical treatment outside of the country. The 70-year-old former President will be travelling to Nigeria in the coming days. Koroma [Read More]

Foday Moriba Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 January 2024: Social media is awash with audio messages from unknown persons calling on the people of Sierra Leone to stay at home today 17th January 2024, claiming that sections of the country’s military will be out on the streets protesting against the [Read More]

Alhaji K Tarawally: Siera Leone Telegraph: 16 January 2024: The National Grand Coalition (NGC) is shocked and deeply concerned by the apparent lack of action by Dr Abass Bundu, the Speaker of Parliament, in response to the serious allegations of corruption and malpractice within the Sierra Leone Parliament. Specifically, the [Read More]

Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 January 2024: The Minority Leader of the opposition All People’s Congress ( APC ) in the Sierra Leone House of Parliament, Hon. Abdul Kargbo, has explained to COCORIOKO why he and other parliamentary members of the APC party paid a courtesy call on President [Read More]

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 January 2024: President Julius Maada Bio is being accused by opposition politicians of pretending to be putting his house in order, ahead of an unconfirmed whistle stop visit to Freetown by the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken. After months of political instability and unrest in [Read More]