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, according to the Minister of Information and Civic Education. Chernor A. Bah said on...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 coup d’état. “Fighting continues across Freetown,” Mr. Douglas told a Globe and Mail journalist....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 he attempts to rally his nation in defence of democracy. The overthrow attempt would...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 breach on the military armoury in Freetown and other strategic locations as an attempted...Read More
By Sallieu S. Kanu Geneva, 04 December 2023 – Countries eligible for Gavi support can now apply to introduce diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP)-containing vaccine boosters (DTP boosters) – as well as to switch to hexavalent vaccine – a six-in-one vaccine that combines the pentavalent vaccine (diphtheria, tetanus, whole-cell pertussis [DTwP], hepatitis B and Haemophilus influenzae type b) with inactivated polio vaccine (IPV). These new programmes, part of Gavi’s commitment...Read More
