November 3, 2026
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Government of Sierra Leone’s Advanced Spectrum Monitoring System may violate privacy rights and carry risks that outweigh technical merits

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The new Spectrum Monitoring System is being marketed as a technical fix. Cleaner airwaves, better call quality, and less interference. Agreed, these are laudable objectives. But a mobile spectrum monitor is also a direction finder. It can locate transmitters, and, [Read More]

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Government of Sierra Leone’s Advanced Spectrum Monitoring System may violate privacy rights and carry risks that outweigh technical merits

Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The new Spectrum Monitoring System is being marketed as a technical fix. Cleaner airwaves, better call quality, and less interference. Agreed, these are laudable objectives. But a mobile spectrum monitor is also a direction finder. It can locate transmitters, and, [Read More]

Economy & Business

Accra welcomes the second of the Creating Opportunities for Youth and Women in Africa (COYWA) Programme

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and its partners, the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), last week organised the second regional training session of the Creating Opportunities for Youth and Women in Africa [Read More]

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UNDP launches training to help Sierra Leonean innovators scale solutions to plastic pollution

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) launched a three-day training to support 20 Sierra Leonean innovators selected under the Global Plastics Innovation Programme (GPIP) to transform their ideas for addressing plastic pollution into scalable businesses that create jobs, strengthen communities and drive sustainable development. [Read More]

Education and Health

Africa Young Innovators for Health Award seeks Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions to expand access to family planning

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: Speak Up Africa and the Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit (OPCU) have opened applications for the third edition of the Africa Young Innovators for Health Award. This edition invites young Africans to propose solutions that use artificial intelligence effectively and responsibly to improve access to [Read More]

Economy & Business

MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power 2026 investment track to spotlight new capital opportunities

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The MSGBC Oil, Gas & Power 2026 conference and exhibition, taking place from December 1–3 in Dakar, will introduce a dedicated Investment Track designed to deepen capital engagement across West Africa’s energy landscape. Building on the region’s expanding upstream activity, infrastructure development and cross-border [Read More]

Economy & Business

ECOWAS strengthens the harmonization of monetary and financial statistics to support regional economic integration

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its Commission and in collaboration with the West African Monetary Agency (WAMA), opened the meeting of the Committee of Experts on the Harmonization of Monetary and Financial Statistics yesterday, Monday in Lomé. Scheduled for November [Read More]

Economy & Business

Africa Finance Corporation and Green Climate Fund to launch US$690 Million Africa Sovereign Climate Facility

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 November 2026: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) today launched the Africa Sovereign Climate Facility (ASCF) at a signing ceremony in Korea, marking a significant step towards scaling up climate finance and accelerating low-carbon, climate-resilient development [Read More]

Education and Health

 What WASSCE exams 2026 is telling Sierra Leone

Dr Mohamed Ibrahim Justice Ganawah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2026: Sierra Leone’s 2026 WASSCE results tell two stories at once. On the surface, more candidates passed than last year. Underneath, one in four candidates who sat the examination has a result withheld for suspected malpractice, and fewer than one [Read More]

Economy & Business

Afreximbank country brief explores Gabon’s reform momentum and diversification drive

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2026: African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) has released its Gabon Country Brief, offering a comprehensive analysis of the Central African nation’s macroeconomic outlook, trade performance, financial sector development and debt sustainability profile. The brief highlights Gabon as one of Africa’s wealthier economies, with real GDP per [Read More]

Economy & Business

Visa and Senegal join forces to accelerate digital transformation and the development of digital payments

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 October 2026: Visa and Senegal’s Ministry of Telecommunications and Digital Affairs have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) establishing a two-year framework for strategic collaboration to support Senegal’s digital transformation ambitions. This partnership will foster cooperation on digital payments, financial innovation, cybersecurity and regulatory matters, while [Read More]

Education and Health

Ethiopia stakeholders chart path forward for stronger hand hygiene systems

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2026: As the world marks Global Handwashing Day, stakeholders in Ethiopia are renewing efforts to strengthen hand hygiene systems as a cornerstone of public health, disease prevention, and emergency preparedness. Government institutions, development partners, civil society organizations, and media representatives gathered in Addis Ababa to [Read More]

Education and Health

Malaria’s impact goes beyond recovery

Target Malaria: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2026: When nine-year-old James Ssemambo developed severe malaria in Kitosi, a village located in Koome Sub County in Mukono district in Uganda, the illness affected far more than his physical health. His mother, Sarah Nankya, spent three days with him at a health [Read More]

Economy & Business

Africa Finance Corporation and Munich Re sign US$1 Billion Managed Debt Mobilization Programme to unlock trade finance for African Banks

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2026: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, today announced a US$1 billion Unfunded Managed Debt Mobilisation Program (UMDMP) with Munich Re, one of the world’s leading reinsurers. The programme provides US$1 billion of committed risk-sharing support for AFC’s trade finance lending [Read More]

Politics & Law

Joseph F Kamara, Sierra Leone’s former attorney-general & minister of justice: The man who sacrificed his freedom, titles and position in pursuit of constitutionality

Saidu Bangura: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: On 11th October 2026, I walked into the Pademba Road prison with a broken spirit. My boss Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara, Sierra Leone’s former attorney-general & minister of justice, had spent his fourth night behind bars, and despite my repeated visits, the reality [Read More]

Economy & Business

Ecowas begins implementation of Inter-Institutional Communication Strategy and Information and Communication Policy for 2026–2031

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, in collaboration with the German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), yesterday, 12 October 2026, commenced a workshop in Accra, Ghana to advance the implementation of the ECOWAS Inter-Institutional Communication Strategy and the ECOWAS Institutions Information [Read More]

Economy & Business

Aurion Capital signs MOU with Gabon and SEEG for a 450 MW electricity program to strengthen the country’s energy security

Sierra Leone Telegraph: On September 8, 2026, Aurion Capital Holdings, an American investment holding group with offices in Abu Dhabi and Dubai, signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Gabonese Republic and the Société d’Énergie et d’Eau du Gabon (SEEG), Gabon’s national water and electricity utility, for the development of [Read More]

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ECOWAS strengthens the harmonization of monetary and financial statistics to support regional economic integration

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2026: The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its Commission and in collaboration with the West African Monetary Agency (WAMA), opened the meeting of the Committee of Experts on the Harmonization of Monetary and Financial Statistics yesterday, Monday in Lomé. Scheduled for November [Read More]

Economy & Business

Africa Finance Corporation and Green Climate Fund to launch US$690 Million Africa Sovereign Climate Facility

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 November 2026: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, and the Green Climate Fund (GCF) today launched the Africa Sovereign Climate Facility (ASCF) at a signing ceremony in Korea, marking a significant step towards scaling up climate finance and accelerating low-carbon, climate-resilient development [Read More]

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