The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2014 Dear Mr. President Extension of the Presidential Term Limit On January 27, 2014, I wrote you an open letter on the amendment of Section 79 (1) of the National Constitution of Sierra Leone 1991, in which your Government introduced entirely new qualifications for [Read More]
Elias Bangura The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2014 The parliamentary committee on mines and mineral resources was in the Koinadugu district on a three-day working visit last week, where they inspected and discussed mining activities in the district, especially companies engaged in exploration. Following recent clashes and violent confrontation [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 May 2014 Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Chief – Joseph Kamara (Photo) has faced fierce criticisms recently, after several botched corruption investigations, and failure to consistently win court cases involving top officials in the Koroma government. Critics say that he is impotent to act strongly and decisively [Read More]
Yusuf Keketoma Sandi The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2014 Former head of state of the Republic of Sierra Leone – Julius Maada Bio, and his wife Fatima Bio are focussing attention on the needs of vulnerable groups in Sierra Leone, as poverty continues to rise. They have established a [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 May 2014 The Africa Progress Panel will release its annual Africa Progress Report at the ‘World Economic Forum on Africa’, which will be held in Abuja, Nigeria on Thursday, 8th May 2014. The theme of this year’s report is ‘Grain, Fish, Money – Financing Africa’s [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2014 Sierra Leone’s hard won peace, after ten years of brutal civil war, which took the lives of over 200,000 people, leaving thousands amputated is today under attack, as ‘political greed and selfishness’ once again rears its ugly head. (Photo: President Koroma). Political and [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 April 2014 The people of Sierra Leone had a low-keyed celebration of the country’s fifty-third anniversary of independence, as power cuts, lack of petrol at the filling stations, and intermittent supply of drinking water marred the celebrations. The government, for the last two successive independent [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya (Puawui) The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 April 2014 Readers may recall my exhortation to the warring factions within our SLPP (Torkpoi) family, to put an end to the internecine warfare and get on with the task of reminding a thoroughly disenchanted public, about the failures of the [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 April 2014 Today we celebrate Sierra Leone’s 53 years of independence from British colonial rule. But what does it mean to be independent, while being so heavily dependent upon others for our survival, through foreign aid? A child growing up under the gaze and protection [Read More]
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