By Stephen V. Lansana The Faculty of Acts, Fourah Bay College (FBC), University of Sierra Leone (USL) has on Thursday, December 7, 2023, commenced a two-day Postgraduate Symposium for students pursuing their postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Acts with the theme: Building students research and interdisciplinary capacity at the Multipurpose Hall, FBC campus in Freetown....Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu After the second day of questioning by the Sierra Leone Police on allegation of involvement in failed coup, former president of Sierra Leone, Ernest Bai Koroma has been granted bail on his own recognizance and with the condition that he stays within the confines of his residence at Goderich in Freetown,...Read More
By: COOPER INVEEN As Sierra Leone’s coastal capital awoke to the staccato rhythm of gunfire last Sunday, Canadian journalist Stephen Douglas Lett stood on his apartment balcony near downtown Freetown and sent phone messages to friends and colleagues. Renegade soldiers had breached the city’s largest barracks, pilfering ammunition in what authorities would later call an attempted...Read More
Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio said the coup attempt of 26 November was not a political, religious, or tribal matter. Thirteen military personnel and one civilian were held as suspects in the claimed coup attempt. President Bio says his government is treating last week’s coup attempt purely as a matter of law and order, as...Read More
By Stephen V. Lansana Christian Lawyers Centre (hereinafter referred to as LEGAL LINK) on Thursday, November 30, 2023, condemned the violent attack in Freetown on Sunday, November 26, 2023 and called for an independent judge-led public inquiry into the security breaches and forceful opening of the male and female correctional centres. The government called the security...Read More
