“I welcome the United Nations and Secretary-General António Guterres’s full solidarity and total support for my Government’s new five-year mandate to accelerate sustainable development and social progress to improve the quality of lives of Sierra Leoneans. Sierra Leone remains unequivocally committed to the UN SDGs to end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure peaceful and prosperous societies as demonstrated in …

A senior civil servant at State House has clarified that, the rank of a Cabinet Minister does not make anyone a member of the Cabinet. He added that they cannot attend Cabinet meetings but they carry the privileges and courtesies (as and when available) accorded a member of the Cabinet. According to the unnamed civil servant, those who carry the …

His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio yesterday received the Certificate of Return following his reelection in the June 24 elections from the Chairman and National Returning Officer of the Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone, ECSL, Mr Mohamed Kenewui Konneh. The Commissioner described the multi-tier elections as peaceful and credible, adding that the results were reflective of the expressions of …

𝐁𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐧𝐞 𝐁. 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐲 The re-elected Speaker of Parliament, Hon. Rtd. Dr. Abass Chernor Bundu has urged all Presidential nominees to expedite the submission of all information required of them to the Clerk of Parliament without further delay. Dr. Abass Bundu made the call yesterday at the first sitting of the Sixth Parliament of the Second Republic. This, Dr. Abass …

The general public is hereby informed that it has pleased His Excellency the President, Brigadier (Rtd.) Dr. Julius Maada Bio to announce the following appointments:Dr. David Sengeh – Chief Minister Mohamed Lamin Tarawally – Attorney General & Justice Minister Timothy Musa Kabba – Foreign Affairs Haja Ramatulaye Wurie – Higher Education Basic Minister – Conrad Sackey Ibrahim Alpha Sesay – …

His Excellency Julius Maada Bio has attended the 63rd Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government and received congratulatory message from the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Representative for West Africa and the Sahel, H.E. Leonardo Santos Simão. In his statement on behalf of the United Nations Secretary-General, H.E. Leonardo Santos Simão congratulated President Bio on …

Freetown, Tuesday 27 June 2023 – His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has sworn to the Oath of Office of the Presidency after winning on the first ballot in the 24 June 2023 elections, thanking voters and extending open hands to the opposition All People’s Congress leadership to kickstart his inclusive governance agenda. “Today, with the successful conduct of …

𝐁𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐅𝐨𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐡. Despite the “Ill-preparedness of the All People’s Congress (APC) Party” for the June 24, 2023 multi-tier elections, the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) has confirmed that the demand by the APC Presidential candidate for the resignation of the Chief Electoral Commissioner and other Electoral Commissioners will not be met and that the election will go ahead. …

The Chief Electoral Commissioner of ECSL, Mohamed K. Konneh said at the Bintumani Conference Centre in Freetown yesterday that, himself and all his Commissioners would not resign their positions and they would continue in with the job of conducting free, fair, credible and transparent elections. Addressing members of the press and elections observers to update them about the activities of …

Addressing a press conference at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown yesterday, the APC Presidential candidate Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara called on the Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairman of ECSL (Electoral Commission of Sierra Leone) and all ECSL Commissioners to resign within 72 hours to make way for the 24th June elections to be conducted by a new outfit …