Sierra Leone News

  Popular Sierra Leonean Content Producer, Author, Writer, TV host, and Podcaster Vickie Remoe has reacted to president Bio’s Nation address in the wake of the August 10 Demonstration. According to Vickie Remoe, the Speech was a missed opportunity. Sounded more like a campaign speech than a Presidential address after a national tragedy. Vickie went further to state that the president Should have spoken directly to the youth in Krio and assured them government hears their concerns

The Africanist Press has revealed from the transactions from the Bank Of Sierra Leone that Show that President Maada Bio and First Lady Fatima Bio took Us$178.315.60 as personal per diem during recent trip to London. “This is what the President and the First Lady of Sierra Leone took along with them to the UK as personal per diem during their recent private visit to London, UK. This is exclusive of the more than £94,000 that was transferred to the Sierra Leone High Commission in London for his travel expenditure,” the editor of Africanist Press, Chernoh Bah stated on social media. Full details of the revelation made by the Africanist Press is stated below: “The following transactions show that a total of US$178, 315. 60 was jointly withdrawn by President Bio and First Lady Fatima Bio as personal per diem ahead of their recent trip to London, UK. These transactions do not include the total amount of £94,050 transferred to the Sierra Leone High Commission in London in the name of his tri...

  The Interim Chairman of the main opposition, All People Congress (APC), Alfred Peter Conteh has said that the party has nothing to do with August 10 violent anti-government protests in Freetown and the Northern part of the country. Conteh made this stance in an interview with the BBC, responding to accusations made by President Maada Bio and members and supporters of the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) that the APC supported the violent anti-government that resulted to the death of 17 police officers and citizens. In his interview with the BBC and his address to the nation last night, President Bio accused the opposition of aiming to topple his government and that the protests has nothing to do with the rising cost of living in the country. “This was not a protest against the high cost of living occasioned by the ongoing global economic crisis. The chant of the insurrectionists was for a violent overthrow of the democratically-elected Government,” he said. “Before Augus...

 The President of the Republic of Sierra Leone Julius Maada Bio during a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) interview on Thursday, August 11 2022, described the Free Quality School Education (FQSE) as a huge, ambitious but necessary project for every child in Sierra Leone. “That is a huge undertaking that is taking a large amount of money every month. We are providing school fees, we are providing core textbooks, we are providing teaching and learning materials, we are providing subsidies to schools, we are providing transportation in most of the cities, we are providing school feeding for most parts of the country,” President Bio said. According to the President, these are very expensive undertakings at a point when the global economy is facing difficulties, but the government has made that effort just to make sure that they equip the young people, place them in a position where they will be able to gain employment. “We do agree that most of the youths are unemployed and we do...

  British  High  Commissioner  to Sierra Leone, Lisa Chesney on Thursday  11th August 2022 remarked that there  is no room for violence to Bring About Change. Her Excellencey Chesney was speaking at a high level meeting  convened  by the Government of Sierra Leone with the international  community in respect  of the August 10th unfortunate  incident that resulted  to the loss of lives and  properties  in the conference hall of the Ministry  of Foreign and international  cooperation on Tower Hill in Freetown were cabinet ministers, and other senior diplomats . As she acknowledged that fundamental rights of the citizens goes with responsibility. However, she expressed  concern over civilian causualities, while the Foreign Affairs Minister was saying  there were 6 Civilians Kill, the National Security Coordinator,  Abdulai  Caulker was saying there were Killed  during  the Violent ...

Chair of the joint AU- COMESA Election  Observer Mission to Kenya, HE Ernest Bai Koroma  on Sunday embarked on a back to back consultations with the leading candidates and a host of other elections stakeholders in Kenya. He started off  by chairing a very impactful meeting of the eleven international elections observer missions and Kenya's main opposition leader the Rt Hon. Raila Odinga. Mr Odinga was accompanied by his deputy Hon. Martha Karua & senior officials. Former President Koroma acknowledged the centrality of Mr Ordinga to the whole electoral process, including the much anticipated peaceful transition. He also underscored the importance a peaceful and stable Kenya to the peace and stability of the East African region and to the rest of Africa. The Odinga delegation responded with a recollection of the challenges they experienced with the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) and the courts since 2002 through to 2017 as reasons underpinning th...

  1. Today, I greet you with a heavy heart. Let us mourn for and pray to God/Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala to grant eternal peace to our police officers and other citizens who were violently killed on the 10th of August, 2022. 2. On that day, the peace, security, and stability of this nation were shattered by persons whose insurrection was pre-meditated, well-planned, financed, and executed with shocking brutality. Before August 10th, they had severally identified themselves on social media as APC Warriors, PPP, and persons who are determined to capture political power even at the cost of hundreds of lives. 3. For some time now also, some politicians have been raising tensions with divisive language and threats to make this country ungovernable. Their known surrogates and associates have stated that they will continue to illegally use violence to unseat the democratically elected Government. The events of August 10 were a clear statement of their collective intent. 4. The Constitution ...