The Sierra Leone Telegraph

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]

New report examines environmental costs of British colonial rule in Africa

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

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

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

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

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

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]

Legal expert says Sierra Leone’s Constitutional Amendment Bill is null and void

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: In an open letter dated 18th August 2026, lawyer Melron Nicol-Wilson argues that the passage of the 1991 Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2025 on 10th August 2026 was unconstitutional. The central objection is that the Speaker wrongly applied Section 91(1), which governs ordinary [Read More]

Sungrow powers Sierra Leone’s energy transformation with first national-scale power project

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: Sungrow, the globally leading PV inverter and energy storage system (ESS) provider, has successfully commissioned the RESPITE Solar-plus-Storage Project in Sierra Leone, marking the country’s first major national-scale power generation project completed and connected to the grid in nearly a decade. The project features [Read More]

Over 300 Billion Leones missing at Sierra Leone’s National Revenue Authority

August 17, 2026 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2026: An investigation by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) into corrupt-related activities at the National Revenue Authority (NRA) reveals that the ASYCUDA system had been seriously compromised, resulting in the loss of over 300 billion leones in government revenue. (Photo: Outgoing NRA Commissioner-General, Jeneba Bangura). The [Read More]

ECOWAS strengthens national institutional capacity of technical and vocational education and training stakeholders

August 17, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its Directorate of Education, Science, and Culture, successfully organized a training workshop on strengthening national institutional capacity for technical and vocational education and training (TVET) stakeholders in Conakry, Guinea, from August 11 to 13, 2026. [Read More]

President Bio summons MPs return to Parliament as constitutional amendment row deepens

August 17, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2026: Following last week’s political showdown in Sierra Leone’s parliament which saw the opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party, walking out of debate to amend the country’s 1991 Constitution that will see the introduction of sweeping changes, including the lowering of the voting threshold for [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s illegal constitutional amendment raises serious questions about democracy, electoral integrity and the rule of law

August 16, 2026 1

Albert Olangba Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2026: A developing constitutional dispute in Sierra Leone is raising serious questions about the future of the country’s multiparty democracy, the independence of its electoral system and the safeguards governing amendments to the 1991 Constitution. The controversy follows the Sierra Leone Government’s [Read More]

Why has President Bio appointed Karefa Kargbo as Sierra Leone’s finance minister

August 16, 2026 2

Gibril Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2026: Sierra Leoneans have every right to ask uncomfortable questions about President Julius Maada Bio’s latest cabinet reshuffle. At the centre of those questions is the appointment of Karefa A. F. Kargbo as Minister of Finance, at a moment when the country is [Read More]

How can we have peace in Sierra Leone when the president himself does not want peace? Op ed

August 16, 2026 1

Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2026: For peace to reign in any country, the President and his followers must love and cherish peace. Peace does not begin in the streets. It begins at the very top. A country can have peace agreements, security forces, courts, constitutions and diplomatic [Read More]

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