The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2026: As drugs addiction among young people in Sierra Leone continues to destroy lives and impact the economy and the wider society, Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr met some of these youth to talk about their lives. “A sad reality is that hundreds of kush [Read More]

The hard truth: Sierra Leone is crying, but who Is listening?

Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2026: Sometimes the truth is bitter but if we refuse to face it, we can never solve it. A recent survey on the economic situation in Sierra Leone paints a very worrying picture. The findings show what ordinary Sierra Leoneans already know from [Read More]

World Bank Group launches Ten-Year Strategy to drive jobs and prosperity in Uganda

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2026: The World Bank Group (WBG) Board of Executive Directors yesterday endorsed a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Uganda, a 10-year strategy (2026-2035) designed to accelerate a private sector-led economic transformation and expand opportunities for the country’s rapidly growing population. The CPF, developed in [Read More]

Parliament of Sierra Leone mourns the sudden death of Kono district MP – Lucinda Finda Kelly

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2026: Finda Lucinda Kellie, opposition APC member of parliament representing the people of Kono District, is reported to have passed away yesterday after a short illness. “Finda’s untimely death has left family members and friends devastated. She was known for her dedication, strength, and unwavering [Read More]

Idris Elba knighted by King Charles

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 June 2026: Africa’s most renowned actor and film producer – Idris Elba, has this week been awarded knighthood by King Charles III in the New Year Honours for services to young people, the BBC reported. He’ll now be known as Sir Idris Elba. Idris received the [Read More]

President Tinubu hails investment fund providing affordable mortgage across Nigeria

Deji Elumoye (ARISE NEWS): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 June 2026: President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday hailed the growing impact of Ministry of Finance Incorporated Real Estate Investment Fund (MREIF), which had delivered N128 billion in affordable mortgages to 1,859 Nigerian families across 25 states under the Renewed Hope Agenda. The [Read More]

Africa’s church leaders call for united action against human trafficking in Africa

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 June 2026: At a time when human trafficking, modern slavery and anti-migrant sentiment are increasing across parts of Africa, Catholic leaders, civil society organisations and law enforcement agencies are strengthening collaboration to protect the most vulnerable and restore dignity to victims. In an interview after attending [Read More]

African Union leaders stress urgent need for resource mobilization and unity to advance Agenda 2063

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 June 2026: The 52nd Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives’ Committee (PRC) officially opened yesterday, 3 June 2026, at the African Union (AU) Headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The session precedes the 49th Ordinary Session of the Executive Council and the 8th Mid-Year Coordination Meeting (MYCM) [Read More]

Sierra Leone Bar Association (SLBA): Guardian of the rule of law

June 3, 2026 0

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 June 2026: The June 6 Sierra Leone Bar Association (SLBA) election is existential. Beyond administrative stakes, the legal profession faces a crisis of legitimacy. The “Kenema Debacle” was the alarm; the real threat is the silent surrender to executive gravity. The Judiciary is [Read More]

Economy & Business

Brand Africa and African Union honour the 100 most influential Africa CMOs in Addis Ababa

June 3, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 June 2026: Against the skyline of Africa’s diplomatic capital, with the sun setting over the Ethiopian highlands, the inaugural Africa CMO 100 (ACMO100) celebration brought together marketing and brand leaders from across the continent and diaspora on the rooftop terrace of the Hyatt Regency Addis Ababa. [Read More]

Sierra Leone police raid local newspaper office after publishing cocaine story

June 2, 2026 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 June 2026: There are worrying reports in Freetown of police officers yesterday Monday afternoon, storming the office of Voice of Salone Newspaper and requested that the Editor accompany them to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to make a statement regarding the newspaper’s publication titled, “Mystery Surrounds [Read More]

Sierra Leone at risk of losing millions of Dollars in EU foreign aid with possible military action

June 2, 2026 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 June 2026: The Dutch government is planning to move a motion at the European parliament caling on the European Union to stop sending development aid to Sierra Leone, because of President Bio’s complicity in the growing global narcotics trade and protection of cocaine baron – Bolle [Read More]

We need to find answers to the real problem damaging our country

June 2, 2026 0

Abdul Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 June 2026: Sierra Leone’s Chief Minister’s remarks in UK reflect a deeply concerning attempt to minimize the growing international narcotics concerns associated with Sierra Leone. (Photo above: President Bio and Chief Minister Sengeh). It is troubling that, rather than directly addressing the serious reputational [Read More]

African Union Leaders issue joint Africa Day call for unity, reform, and a renewed commitment to Agenda 2063

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: On the occasion of Africa Day 2026, Mr. Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), and Mr. Évariste Ndayishimiye, President of the Republic of Burundi and the Chairperson of the African Union, have issued a united call for accelerated integration, global [Read More]

African development finance institutions unite in support of Mission 300

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: Senior African finance leaders attending the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group’s Annual Meetings in Brazzaville have called for coordinated action to unlock an estimated $250 billion in assets held by the continent’s development finance institutions to support Mission 300), a joint initiative by the [Read More]

Angola rewrites the rules for oil investment – Other African producers must take notes

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: Angola’s oil sector has demonstrated how reform can transform a market on the cusp of rapid decline into an industry capable of attracting billions of dollars in investment. NJ Ayuk’s latest book titled Crude Oil: Power, Turnaround, and Transformation in Angola explores this transition, [Read More]

AfDB Group’s 2025 annual report highlights strong results and a new chapter for Africa’s transformation

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 May 2026: The African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has released its 2025 Annual Report, showcasing another year of strong development results and reaffirming its commitment to advancing a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and integrated Africa. Despite a challenging global environment marked by slower growth, tighter financial conditions, [Read More]

Pandemic of fear in Sierra Leone: When citizens learn to whisper

May 26, 2026 1

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: Some pandemics don’t strike the body—they slash the tongue. They spread through prosecutions and public warnings, and through the quiet calculations people make before speaking. Sierra Leone is living through that contagion: a pandemic of fear, marked by lowered voices, deleted [Read More]

South Africa’s xenophobia: A failed state of the soul

May 26, 2026 0

Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: Many of you have likely seen the video—women stripped bare in the street, their bodies turned into public property, their pain turned into public entertainment. It is a violence so obscene it seems to knock the breath out of language itself. [Read More]

How Sierra Leone’s ports and security institutions become entangled in Europe’s biggest narco-trafficking scandal

May 26, 2026 0

Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 May 2026: For years, Sierra Leone’s authorities dismissed allegations that the country was becoming a strategic transit hub for global cocaine syndicates. Every major seizure linked to Freetown was met with the same institutional reflex: denial, deflection, and carefully worded press statements. But [Read More]

UK Lawmaker urges investigation after Sierra Leone’s First Lady admits continued use of London’s subsidized housing

May 24, 2026 0

Josef Skrdlik / Oliver Dunn (OCCRP): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 May 2026: Wife of Sierra Leone’s President – Fatima Bio is again under fire as she holds onto her subsidized flat more than a year after OCCRP and The Times exposed her tenancy at the property. A British lawmaker has [Read More]

African Union leaders stress urgent need for resource mobilization and unity to advance Agenda 2063