{"id":224259,"date":"2026-02-19T00:22:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-main-opposition-party-briefly-suspended-secretary-general-remanded\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T00:22:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:22:02","slug":"west-africa-main-opposition-party-briefly-suspended-secretary-general-remanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/west-africa-main-opposition-party-briefly-suspended-secretary-general-remanded\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Main Opposition Party Briefly Suspended, Secretary-General Remanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">On January 31, 2026, Lansana Dumbuya, Secretary-General of the All People&#8217;s Congress (APC), Sierra Leone&#8217;s main opposition party, delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/mfwa.org\/country-highlights\/sierra-leone-opposition-party-executive-released-after-spending-a-night-in-detention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">public address<\/a> to supporters at Atouga Stadium in Freetown. Authorities later said remarks made during the gathering breached political communication standards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">On February 2, 2026, the Political Parties Regulation Commission (PPRC) fined the APC NLe 350,000 (US$14,300) over comments made by party member Zainab Sheriff and similar statements attributed to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180509.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 31, 2026, Lansana Dumbuya, Secretary-General of the All People&#8217;s Congress (APC), Sierra Leone&#8217;s main opposition party, delivered a public address to supporters at Atouga Stadium in Freetown. Authorities later said remarks made during the gathering breached political communication standards. On February 2, 2026, the Political Parties Regulation Commission (PPRC) fined the APC NLe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1109],"tags":[258,256,53694,9612,257,5675,7024,8581,6406,1135,254,4314,4375],"class_list":["post-224259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-briefly","tag-main","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-party","tag-remanded","tag-secretarygeneral","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspended","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}