Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2020: The Public Financial Management Consortium (PFMC) has questioned the credibility of the Sierra Leone government budget. Critical analyses by the Consortium documented in two separate reports launched yesterday indicate that government expenditure surpasses revenue generation. (Photo above – Finance minister JJ Saffa). [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2020: Emily Kadiatu Gogra – the impugned deputy minister of basic and senior secondary education who was sacked by president Bio, and charged to court just four months ago by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for her involvement in the disappearance of 50,000 bags of rice [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2020: A press statement issued last night by State House in Freetown says that: “His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio will depart Sierra Leone today, Thursday 27 August 2020, on a private visit to the Republic of Lebanon. His Excellency will be accompanied by [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2020: In recent weeks, Sierra Leone has lost a few of its young and brilliant men and women, who died through non-COVID related illness, including the country’s Deputy High Commissioner to the UK – Mrs Agnes Dugba Macauley who was buried in Kono last week. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2020: Last Tuesday, a defense lawyer acting for the Retired Major Alfred Palo Conteh, Wara Serry-Karmal, told Appeals Court judges that the State has refused to provide documents relating to the treason trial to enable her client Palo Conteh, file his appeal against the court’s [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 August 2020: The advent of social media at face value, should be a blessing and a rod of enlightenment. Before social media, the manufacturing, dissemination and consumption of information was totally controlled by the few. Those were the days when whole countries, societies, and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2020: Minister of Local Government and Rural Development – Tamba Lamina, last Thursday led a conducted tour of the newly constructed Freetown City Council Administrative Complex, after three years of construction initiated by the former APC government. The massive building which graces Freetown’s skyline is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2020: The Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) and the West African Network for Peace (WANEP), in partnership with the United Nations Development Programe (UNDP) and the Government of Sierra Leone, have engaged key stakeholders on promoting peace and social cohesion in Makeni, [Read More]
ARTICLE 19: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 August 2020: ARTICLE 19 strongly condemns the deadly violence and repression of protesters and the ongoing stifling of the freedom of expression and the right to protest in Côte d’Ivoire, two months before the presidential election. The different demonstrations organised across the country against the [Read More]
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