Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has repealed The Criminal and Seditious Libel Law, a 55-year-old libel law that has been used by successive governments to…
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No fewer than three members of the Sierra Leone national football team have tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). The infected include Sierra Leone captain…
Cambodia authorities have arrested two African nationals and their Cambodian accomplice for allegedly trying to smuggle drugs from the Asian nation to Australia. Thirty nine years…
Investigators attached to the Sierra Leone Anti-corruption Commission (ACC-SL) claimed supporters of a former president of the West African country, Ernest Bai Koroma, prevented them from…
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio has suspended the West African country’s Minister of Agriculture, Dennis Vandi, and a host of civil servants who were implicated…
The Sierra Leone Anti-corruption Commission (ACC-SL) has invited a former president of the West African Country, Ernest Bai Koroma, for questioning under oath over allegations of…
The Sierra Leonean Government has barred more than 100 public officials from travelling outside the West African country while it probes allegations of graft. Those banned…
The unrests in the last two weeks commenced with a riot in the maximum prison in Freetown, which claimed 12 lives. Then there were riots in at least two other districts, amidst conflicting reports about the number of deaths. President Bio blamed opposition APC for the unrest.
Henry Costa, a fierce critic and chairman of youth activist group the Council of Patriots (COP) posted on Facebook on Wednesday that he was in the hands of Sierra Leone authorities.
At least 50 people are missing and feared dead after a three-story building under construction collapsed Wednesday in Bo, Sierra Leone’s second largest city.