The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2026: Since the beginning of time, human beings have told stories not merely to remember who they were, but to decide who they belonged to. Around fires, within clans, and eventually across kingdoms and civilizations, communities crafted narratives of origin, ancestry, triumph,

Haroun Zubairu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2026: My fellow Sierra Leoneans, there is now another major development in the controversy surrounding the Constitutional Amendment Bill. President Julius Maada Bio has referred a petition concerning the Bill to the Supreme Court, relying on Section 122 subsection 1 of the 1991

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: President Julius Maada Bio has referred the Constitutional (Amendment) Bill to the Supreme Court for a judicial opinion, citing the need for constitutional clarity and national consensus on the Bill. “It is the President’s considered view that the passage of such an

Albert David KAMARA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: President Julius Maada Bio says hi Government needs US$61 million to conduct the 2026 Population and Housing Census. For a country with about 9 million people, this number is shockingly high. It means the census will cost about US$7 per person

Alusine Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: A few days ago, I watched a video of Sierra Leone’s government Chief Minister – Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, in a meeting with the Minister of Social Welfare, Mrs. Melrose Karminty, where he gave instructions for the establishment of a care home

Davidnette Vandy (Switsalone): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: Behind every “A” to “Z” is an opportunity to discover a word, understand an idea, ask a question and begin making sense of the world around them. But what happens when that world looks and feels familiar? (Photo above: A child

ECOWAS, West Africa’s regional political block, has once again shown its maturity and capability in handling and resolving political disputes in member nations. Yesterday, the former president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, who has been living in exile in Nigeria, hosted and

Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, one of the city’s hardest hit by climate change, the destruction of forests, and environmental pollution, is now using technological innovation to help transform lives, by installing biodigesters in communities across the city. Last week, Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne

Aminata Sheriff: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: I woke up to the celebratory news about the UN approving a resolution on how Africa is represented on world maps, and I’m genuinely baffled by our priorities. I look at our own African diplomats and leaders – the people who spent

Yoni Emmanuel Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: On 27 August 2026, the High Court issued an interim injunction restraining APC National Chairman Osman Foday Yansaneh and National Secretary General Lansana Dumbuya from performing their executive functions. On paper, this may look like a procedural order intended to preserve

Albert David KAMARA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: What is unfolding inside the SLPP today is not politics, it is a full‐scale institutional hijack. The First Lady’s nationwide political parade, powered by state vehicles, state security, public funds, government media, and a carefully planted network of loyalists inside the

SHIBUYA (Japan) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: Ask what Africa needs to secure its economic future, and the answers tend to follow a familiar script: capital, technology and infrastructure. Rarely does ‘data’ make the list. Yet, data sovereignty, the ability to collect, control and act on reliable information about