SIERRA LEONE TELEGRAPH

Sierra Leone scales down Covid-19 response as number of deaths remains low

October 24, 2020 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2020: As countries across the world ramp up their response to the unfolding second wave of the deadly Coronavirus Pandemic that has killed over one million people, authorities in Sierra Leone have decided its time to scale down the government’s response. This decision was announced [Read More]

Sierra Leone scales down Covid-19 response as number of deaths remains low

October 24, 2020 0

Case against former Mayor Herbert George Williams must now be dropped

October 24, 2020 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2020: The prosecution is now stalled in the trial of Abu Bakarr Daramy and Herbert George – Williams, after the two eye witnesses who were present at the scene of crime (Lumley round about in Freetown) on the 31st of March 2018, when the late [Read More]

Head of UN in Sierra Leone meets president Bio at State House

October 23, 2020 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2020: Newly appointed United Nations Resident to Sierra Leone – Mr. Babatunde Ahonsi, last Thursday called on President Dr Julius Maada Bio to present his letter of appointment by the UN Secretary General. ”It is with utmost humility and great honour that I present my [Read More]

President Bio commissions four inshore patrol boats to protect the country’s territorial waters

October 23, 2020 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 October 2020: Yesterday Thursday, president Dr Julius Maada Bio commissioned four inshore patrol boats at the White Man’s Bay Navy Headquarters in Murray Town, Freetown. Speaking at the ceremony to mark the occasion, Commander of the Maritime Wing, Captain Navy Philip Juana, said that the role [Read More]

Disputed 2018 election in the Freetown constituency 110 to be held in December

October 22, 2020 1

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission (NEC) has finally published the date for the conduct of the controversial Parliamentary re-run bye election in constituency 110 which was marred by violence. It comes over a year after the last polling results were cancelled. [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio launches 2020 Poppy Day Remembrance Week

October 22, 2020 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today launched the 2020 Poppy Remembrance Week in honour of all military servicemen and women who lost their lives in the line of duty. Co-Chairman Remembrance Day Planning Committee, Commissioner Rashid Thomas II, said remembering the Poppy Day [Read More]

Aberdeen’s oldest citizen – Mr Mohamed Sallieu Thomas celebrates 100 NOT OUT

October 22, 2020 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 October 2020: Born on 17th October 1920, Mr Mohamed Sallieu Thomas is one of Freetown’s oldest residents, and arguably the oldest in Aberdeen, West of Freetown, Sierra Leone. He is the patriarch of the Thomas family of Aberdeen – descendants of Liberated Africans slaves who founded [Read More]

Thousands of businesses to benefit from electronic cash registers in Sierra Leone

October 21, 2020 10

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Finance, Jacob Jusu Saffa, on Monday commissioned five thousand Electronic Cash Registers (ECR) which will be rolled out immediately across hotels and supermarkets in the country. The National Revenue Authority (NRA) last week, held a five-day technical training for stakeholders [Read More]

Politics

Yesterday at the Appeals Court – APC legal communications team clarifies

October 21, 2020 6

APC Legal Communications: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2020: Lawyers representing the APC Members of Parliament that were removed from Parliament immediately after the general elections in 2018, yesterday October 20th 2020, told the Court of Appeal that they have instructions from their clients not to file synopsis or argue [Read More]

Appeals court strikes out election petition case

October 21, 2020 3

Judiciary of Sierra Leone Communications Unit: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 October 2020: Yesterday, the Court of Appeal presided over by Hon. Justices Sengu Koroma JSC, Ansumana Ivan Sesay JA and Tonya Barnette J. struck out the election petition case brought forward by Hon. Osman A. Timbo and nine others on [Read More]

Three electricity distribution officials arrested for corruption in Sierra Leone

October 19, 2020 11

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Elite Scorpion Squad today arrested three officials of the Electricity Distribution and Supply Agency’s (EDSA) billing section at Siaka Stevens Street in Freetown. According to the ACC statement, they are believed to have facilitated the embezzlement of over One [Read More]

African Heads of State call on world leaders to increase investment to end rural hunger and poverty

October 19, 2020 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2020: Ten African Heads of State have issued a strong call to other world leaders to increase their funding to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) or risk jeopardizing Sustainable Development Goal targets for eradicating poverty and hunger, particularly in Africa. “We share IFAD’s [Read More]

BBC reveals thousands of boys chained, tortured and abused in Islamic schools across Sudan

October 19, 2020 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 October 2020: A BBC News Arabic investigation has uncovered systemic child abuse inside Islamic schools in Sudan. There are nearly 30,000 Islamic schools, known as “khalwas” across Sudan. The investigation, “The Schools that Chain Boys”, has found that boys as young as five-years-old are routinely chained, [Read More]

Millennium Challenge Corporation Chief Executive meets president Bio at State House

October 18, 2020 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 October 2020: After the failure of successive governments of Sierra Leone to convince the US government funded Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to include Sierra Leone in their short list of African countries that have received hundreds of millions of dollars in grant-aid to help pay for [Read More]

EU support for Kambia local council and CSOs launched in Kambia district

October 18, 2020 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 October 2020: Sierra Leone’s minister of planning and economic development, Dr. Francis Kai-Kai has reiterated his call for effective coordination, ownership and people cantered processes that are critical to achieving the objectives of the government’s Medium-Term National Development Plan (MTNDP) 2019-2023 at the local community level. [Read More]

Female entrepreneur loses thousands of dollars investment in Sierra Leone – still no justice

October 18, 2020 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 October 2020: Just when she thought it was safe and the right decision to return home to Sierra Leone to invest her hard earned cash in her country of birth, Mrs Annie Metzger has witnessed all her hard work and investments gone up in smoke, as [Read More]

ACC investigated and charged three tax officials for stealing billions of foreign travel tax revenue

October 17, 2020 13

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 October 2020: Following the publication of a report by the Africanist Press about the Billions of Leones stolen by tax officials working for the country’s National Revenue Authority (NRA), the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday issued a statement saying that they had conducted an investigation into the [Read More]

Billions in foreign travel tax revenue missing in Sierra Leone government account – says new report

October 15, 2020 29

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2020: Just as the New Direction government of President Julius Maada Bio says it is beginning to get grips with massive corruption in the country, then comes revelation that Billions of Leones are being siphoned into private accounts of corrupt officials and private corporations. A [Read More]

Threats to credible elections in Cote D’ivoire

October 15, 2020 1

Mubin Adewumi Bakare: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 October 2020: Cote d’Ivoire is one of six ECOWAS member states scheduled to hold elections in 2020. The 31 October vote will be the fifth presidential election since the death of the ‘pere foundateur de la nation’ (father of the nation) Felix Houphouet [Read More]

Will the Bio-led government implement the recommendations of the Constitutional Review Report? Op ed

October 14, 2020 5

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 October 2020: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established in 2002 urged the Government of Sierra Leone to give “serious consideration” to the creation of a “new constitution”, in order to contribute to human rights and democracy in the country. All the political [Read More]

Opposition APC criticises political and civil society’s response to the Makeni ACC standoff

October 14, 2020 15

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 October 2020: After receiving widespread condemnation for his supporters’ behaviour last Thursday outside his home in Makeni, where hundreds of angry youths staged protests and blocked the road leading to his house, to prevent Anti-Corruption Commission investigators from meeting with him, former president of Sierra Leone [Read More]