Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2020: There is a seeming temptation for people to assume that what is going on in American politics is a far-flung concern for Americans and Americans only. Wrong. As we painfully watch Donald Trump taking the butcher’s knife to the entrails of what [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2020: After much dithering and political brinkmanship, president Bio has finally put his signature to the laws passed by parliament many months ago to repeal the country’s notorious laws that criminalised libel, marking the end of a bad law. The criminal libel laws have been [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2020: President Alpha Conde, 82, won the hotly contested presidential election held last week, according to official results announced Saturday, setting the stage for a controversial third term. He will remain in office to oversee the country’s post-covid economic recovery. A staff team from the International [Read More]
Africanist Press: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2020 Details of an internal audit into financial activities of the Maada Bio administration for the fiscal year 2019, an advance copy of which the Africanist Press has seen, reveal how three government ministries in Sierra Leone collectively spent a total of Le21 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2020: MPs in the parliament of Sierra Leone yesterday approved loan agreements totalling $40 million which the government has signed with the OPEC Fund for International Development (OFID) and the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA) respectively, to help boost the country’s education [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s National Centre for Covid-19 Response (NaCOVERC) yesterday announced that the government has decided with immediate effect, to lift the night time curfew imposed by the president early this year to help curb the transmission and spread of the Covid-19 virus across the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2020: President Julius Maada Bio last Saturday called on Sierra Leoneans to take up farming so as to help meet the country’s food sufficiency, which could reduce the vast sums of foreign exchange spent on importing rice. He made this call last week at the [Read More]
Tamba Tengbeh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2020: The Sierra Leone Regional Rice Value Chain Project (RRVCP) in the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry (MAF) last week held its inaugural National Steering Committee meeting to discuss the progress. The Committee is responsible for providing high-level policy advice and oversee project [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2020: The African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) and the UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (OSAA) have called for greater inclusion of women in peace and security processes if Africa is to meet its development aspirations and enjoy meaningful stability. To mark the [Read More]
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