The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr to receive the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize in Philadelphia

April 22, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2025: The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, will be presented with the 2021 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize at the University of Pennsylvania, USA this Friday 25th April. The 2021 award presentation was delayed due to COVID-related restrictions that prevented in-person gatherings. This special [Read More]

ECOWAS calls for the enforcement of the harmonized regional standards for solar home systems

April 19, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: The ECOWAS Commission through the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP) organized in collaboration with the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) and the Federal Ministry of Energy from 14 to 15 April 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria a seminar for more than 25 Nigerian experts [Read More]

African health experts commit to accelerate efforts to eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases

April 19, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: African health experts have renewed commitment to accelerate efforts to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that continue to affect over a billion people globally, 40% of whom live in the African region. Meeting in Togo from 15 to 17 April 2025 for the NTD [Read More]

Youth Charter calls for stronger youth-focused communiqué

April 19, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: Following active participation in the 2025 ECOSOC Youth Forum at United Nations Headquarters, the Youth Charter is issuing a call for a more youth-centred and action-oriented global communiqué. This call urges the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and all Member States to elevate [Read More]

Freetown Mayor Aki-Sawyerr to receive the Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize in Philadelphia

April 22, 2025 0

ECOWAS calls for the enforcement of the harmonized regional standards for solar home systems

April 19, 2025 0

African health experts commit to accelerate efforts to eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases

April 19, 2025 0

Youth Charter calls for stronger youth-focused communiqué

April 19, 2025 0

Sierra Leone: Why we must answer the burning question with fire prevention

April 19, 2025 1

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: Our nation, and especially Freetown have been gripped by a spate of fire incidents recently. The State House, the Military hospital (34) and a maternal unit in Makeni hospital have all made the news for the wrong reasons. Fires do take place [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s former President Koroma impacts the 8th African Leadership Forum in Kampala

April 16, 2025 0

Sheriff Mahmud Ismail (Abuja,Nigeria) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: On Saturday April 5, 2025, I accompanied Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma to the 8th African Leadership Forum (ALF) in Kampala, Uganda. The Forum, held from 7th to 8th at the Munyonyo Speke Resort, was co-organized by the [Read More]

Macroeconomic data not credible: – how the IMF unravels SLPP’s web of deceit and lies

April 16, 2025 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: On April 14th, 2025, the Ministry of Information and Civic Education in Sierra Leone issued a press release heralding what it described as a successful conclusion of the recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to the country. But beyond the polished language and cherry-picked [Read More]

When power burns: How SLPP’s energy mismanagement is setting Sierra Leone on fire

April 16, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: In the early hours of Sunday morning, thick smoke rose above State House, Sierra Leone’s most secure address, as flames tore through the third and fourth floors of the building. Gutted were the Finance and Records Departments, the Office of the Press Secretary, and [Read More]

Champagne government in a garri economy – Where are the new roads?

April 16, 2025 2

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded its latest mission to Sierra Leone this April 2025 with troubling findings, troubling, but not surprising to those of us who have been watching the direction of this government. This time, the IMF reportedly suspended [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s State House fire exposes a nation fed up with excuses and silence – Op ed

April 13, 2025 3

Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2025: On Saturday, April 12, 2025, something unusual – and frankly, quite alarming -happened. Sierra Leone’s State House, the official residence of the President and the beating heart of our nation’s executive authority, caught fire. Yes, that building. The symbol of our sovereignty. [Read More]

Its the educated ones that have failed Sierra Leone – Op ed

April 13, 2025 0

Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 April 2025: It was sometime in 2001, in the warm, buzzing office of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone. The war had ended, but the scars were still fresh, and conversations about rebuilding were everywhere. I remember sitting with a few international [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s State House is on fire

April 12, 2025 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 April 2025: In the last hour (6pm GMT), the Sierra Leone Telegraph has received reports of large fire burning at State House in Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown. The building is the official seat of the head of state and government. Built in 1895, State House was [Read More]

Southern African countries launch climate-resilient health initiative with World Health Organization (WHO) support

April 10, 2025 1

Siera Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2025: Eight Southern African countries have embarked on a landmark effort to bolster emergency preparedness and response systems in the face of increasing climate-related health threats. With financial support from the Pandemic Fund, and technical assistance from World Health Organization (WHO) in the African Region [Read More]

Africa Finance Corporation tops US$1 Billion revenue for first time as landmark projects unlock growth across the continent

April 10, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2025: Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), the continent’s leading infrastructure solutions provider, has announced its strongest financial performance to date, with total revenue for the year ended 31 December 2024 surpassing US$ 1 billion for the first time in the Corporation’s history. (Photo above: Samaila Zubairu [Read More]

Absa Corporate and Investment Banking powers East Africa’s real estate future

April 10, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 April 2025: Under the theme “Positioning for Opportunity”, Nairobi’s premier real estate event brings global investors and developers together to shape East Africa’s economic landscape. As a proudly Pan-African business with key interests in positively shaping economic policy and investments, Absa CIB has proudly, once again [Read More]

The changing world order and rise of transcontinental racial politics

April 7, 2025 1

Yusuf Bangura (Nyon, Switzerland): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 April, 2025: I recently listened to an insightful 25-minute interview of The Guardian journalist Chris McGreal on Democracy Now’s YouTube channel (Democracy Now!, 2025), which looked at the apartheid roots of Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, who has carved out for [Read More]

Don’t risk your future: The United States cracks down on illegal immigration – Op ed

April 5, 2025 0

U.S. Ambassador to Sierra Leone Bryan D. Hunt: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 April 2025: To make America safe, strong, and prosperous, President Trump is ensuring that U.S. immigration laws are followed. If you try to enter the United States illegally, lie to get a visa, work without legal permission, or [Read More]

Democracy dies when raw power rules and lawlessness is legalised

April 5, 2025 0

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 April 2025: Even before Donald Trump won the elections in November 2024, those familiar with the general feel of African democracy or democracy in Africa could see the parallel and linear similarities with his incoming administration. The point of departure in this discussion is [Read More]

AfDB supported projects in Senegal and Rwanda clinch top honors at 2025 bonds, loans & ESG capital markets Africa Awards

April 5, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 April 2025: Two African Development Bank Group (AfDB) supported projects have garnered top honours at the 2025 Bonds, Loans & ESG Capital Markets Africa Awards conference. A $500 million sustainable term loan facility in Senegal was named Sovereign Syndicated Loan Deal of the Year, while Rwanda’s [Read More]

OPEC Fund approves over US$600 million in new financing to strengthen connectivity, human capital and economic resilience

April 5, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 April 2025: The OPEC Fund for International Development (OPEC Fund) has approved over US$600 million in new development financing to support sustainable infrastructure, private sector development, food security and human capital in partner countries across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. The new projects were [Read More]

Gavi-funded meningococcal vaccines arrive in Nigeria to aid outbreak response

April 5, 2025 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 April 2025: This week, Nigeria’s Ministry of Health received over 1,000,000 pentavalent meningococcal conjugate vaccine (Men5CV) doses from the Gavi-funded global stockpile to combat the meningococcus C and W outbreak in northern Nigeria. The outbreak has already claimed over 70 lives, with more than 800 cases [Read More]

When power burns: How SLPP’s energy mismanagement is setting Sierra Leone on fire

April 16, 2025 0

Champagne government in a garri economy – Where are the new roads?

April 16, 2025 2

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