MESSAGE FROM AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL TODAY 30th April 2020, 13:05 Sierra Leone: Reasons underlying prison riot amid COVID-19 case must be investigated. Following a riot which took place yesterday in […]
Abuja, April 28, 2020 — Authorities in Sierra Leone should immediately drop all charges against journalist Fayia Amara Fayia and ensure those responsible for the attacks against him are held […]
The Sierra Leone Police yesterday raided the home of former Defence Minister Palo Conteh and ransacked it, after the chaos at Pademba Road Prisons , which resulted in the death […]
11 people have been confirmed dead by Vice President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh who visited the Pademba Correctional Centre this afternoon to assess the level of damage done yesterday. Of the […]
30th April 2020 The All People’s Congress notes with grave concern developments that took place yesterday at the Pademba Road Maximum Security Male Correctional Centre that led to the […]
Germany has terminated aid to Sierra Leone and a number of countries because of human rights abuses, corruption and bad governance, according to a report in the German newspaper, Frankfurter Allgemeine […]
Today was a day of high-profile fires in the Sierra Leone capital of Freetown. First this morning, there was fire at the maximum security Pademba Road Prisons where an attempted […]
Africanist Press By Chernoh Alpha M. Bah, Matthew Anderson, & Mark Feldman On March 1 of this year, Africanist Press released the first article in our ongoing investigative series on corruption […]
Prisoners inside Sierra Leone’s central Pademba Road Prison were on riot earlier Wednesday. Some of the prison facilities were set ablaze by the inmates over alleged too much #COVID19 restrictions. Gunshots […]
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