The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Albert David KAMARA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: President Julius Maada Bio says hi Government needs US$61 million to conduct the 2026 Population and Housing Census. For a country with about 9 million people, this number is shockingly high. It means the census will cost about US$7 per person [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s US$61 million headcount is the most expensive political calculator in West Africa

World’s largest electric vehicle manufacturer partners with Spiro to accelerate electric mobility across Africa

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: Spiro, Africa’s leading electric mobility company, has signed a partnership with Yadea, the world’s leading manufacturer of electric two-wheelers, to scale accessible and sustainable electric transport across Africa. The strategic partnership combines Yadea’s global manufacturing and R&D capabilities with Spiro’s operational network and battery-swapping [Read More]

While we care for the elderly in Sierra Leone, who will rescue the youth?

Alusine Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: A few days ago, I watched a video of Sierra Leone’s government Chief Minister – Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, in a meeting with the Minister of Social Welfare, Mrs. Melrose Karminty, where he gave instructions for the establishment of a care home [Read More]

New “blockbuster” tuberculosis vaccines could save seven million lives by 2050

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 September 2026: New tuberculosis (TB) vaccines, which are expected to become available from 2029, could help save up to an estimated 7.3 million lives between 2030 and 2050[1], unlocking up to US$ 135 billion in economic benefits across low- and middle-income countries, according to new analysis [Read More]

Egypt launches first national Artificial Intelligence (AI) factory

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: Vodafone Business and Cassava Technologies announced a strategic partnership to develop and enable advanced sovereign AI infrastructure in Egypt through the launch of the country’s first AI factory for operating diverse AI applications and use cases locally. This step aims to position Egypt as [Read More]

One Dollar a week – In the Central African Republic, women are growing their projects and their hopes

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: In Mobaye, Central African Republic, women are gradually turning their savings into projects for themselves and their families. Business, agriculture, livestock farming or their children’s education, the choices are theirs. When Henriette Yambata received 38,000 CFA francs (approximately USD 67) after several months of [Read More]

Learning that looks and feels like us. Yak Jones Foundation brings Sierra Leone into the classroom

Davidnette Vandy (Switsalone): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: Behind every “A” to “Z” is an opportunity to discover a word, understand an idea, ask a question and begin making sense of the world around them. But what happens when that world looks and feels familiar? (Photo above: A child [Read More]

UN programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) rolls out Lenacapavir to prevent new HIV infections in Zambia

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 September 2026: With Zambia having received the delivery of the first US-funded HIV prevention medicine Lenacapavir, UNAIDS is now working in close partnership with the Zambian government, communities, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and the US government to ensure that this new [Read More]

New report examines environmental costs of British colonial rule in Africa

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: A report coming out of the University of Lagos has examined the environmental effects of British colonial rule in Africa and has asked that this value be included in all reparations conversation. The report, titled CO2lonianism, Ecocide, Reparations, argues that the long-lasting ecological harm [Read More]

Former President Ernest Bai Koroma of Sierra Leone finally returns home

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: ECOWAS, West Africa’s regional political block, has once again shown its maturity and capability in handling and resolving political disputes in member nations. Yesterday, the former president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, who has been living in exile in Nigeria, hosted and [Read More]

Technological innovation set to transform Freetown’s climate change response

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown, one of the city’s hardest hit by climate change, the destruction of forests, and environmental pollution, is now using technological innovation to help transform lives, by installing biodigesters in communities across the city. Last week, Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne [Read More]

A bigger map of Africa will not end hunger, systemic corruption, indignity, conflict and relentless human rights violations

Aminata Sheriff: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 September 2026: I woke up to the celebratory news about the UN approving a resolution on how Africa is represented on world maps, and I’m genuinely baffled by our priorities. I look at our own African diplomats and leaders – the people who spent [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s opposition APC court injunction – Judicial overreach that paralyzes a party

September 4, 2026 0

Yoni Emmanuel Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: On 27 August 2026, the High Court issued an interim injunction restraining APC National Chairman Osman Foday Yansaneh and National Secretary General Lansana Dumbuya from performing their executive functions. On paper, this may look like a procedural order intended to preserve [Read More]

AfDB and AXIAN launch digital finance programme to support 34,000 women-led businesses in Africa

September 4, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: AXIAN Group and the African Development Bank (AfDB) have launched a major women’s financial inclusion programme to expand access to finance and business support for more than 34,000 women-led enterprises in five African countries. Supported by the African Development Bank’s Affirmative Finance Action for [Read More]

Power of political and state incumbency weaponised in Sierra Leone

September 4, 2026 1

Albert David KAMARA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: What is unfolding inside the SLPP today is not politics, it is a full‑scale institutional hijack. The First Lady’s nationwide political parade, powered by state vehicles, state security, public funds, government media, and a carefully planted network of loyalists inside the [Read More]

Africa’s next move and why data sovereignty is the missing key to the continent’s economic future

September 4, 2026 0

SHIBUYA (Japan) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: Ask what Africa needs to secure its economic future, and the answers tend to follow a familiar script: capital, technology and infrastructure. Rarely does ‘data’ make the list. Yet, data sovereignty, the ability to collect, control and act on reliable information about [Read More]

GAVI commits additional funding for Ebola response

August 21, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2026: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) has announced additional funding to support Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak response. New funding of US$7 million will be deployed to provide 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine through the global Ebola vaccine stockpile. A further US$ 6 million [Read More]

One of West Africa’s oldest markets – Freetown’s King Jimmy getting more than a facelift

August 20, 2026 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2026: One of West Africa’s oldest and historic markets established during the slave trade, which saw hundreds of thousands – if not millions of Africans, shipped across the ocean to America to work on plantations, is to be rebuilt into a modern indoor market. The [Read More]

How Africa is advancing the fight to end violence against women and girls while building stronger care systems

August 20, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2026: Across East and Southern Africa, governments, regional institutions and women’s rights advocates are driving a growing movement to tackle one of the continent’s most persistent challenges: violence against women and girls. At the same time, they are advancing a parallel agenda to strengthen care [Read More]

To sign or not to sign? The choice facing President Bio – Op ed

August 19, 2026 0

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: President Julius Maada Bio may soon face one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency: whether to sign a constitutional amendment into law, a step already shadowed by a serious procedural dispute before the Supreme Court. This is not merely [Read More]

Sierra Leone launches Gender Accountability Framework and the 2025 Annual Report on the implementation of the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment Act 2022

August 19, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: The Government of Sierra Leone, through the Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs (MoGCA) in partnership with UN Women today launches the Gender Accountability Framework and the 2025 Annual Report on the Implementation of the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) Act 2022, marking [Read More]

UN programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) rolls out Lenacapavir to prevent new HIV infections in Zambia

New report examines environmental costs of British colonial rule in Africa