The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2026: An AI filmmaking programme for African creators has opened in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and South Africa. Akuna Learning, from The Akuna Group, chaired by Sir Idris Elba, today opened applications for From Script to Screen with AI, a free programme that equips [Read More]

Idris Elba’s Akuna Group launches free Artificial Intelligence filmmaking programme for creators in five African countries

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]

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]

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]

Former Attorney General of Sierra Leone – Joseph F Kamara released from jail

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: Proceedings have resumed this morning at Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court in Freetown, where laywers for the government and the opposition All Peoples’ Congress Party (APC), respectively, are making arguments about the recent decision of the country’s Speaker of parliament to declare that a vote [Read More]

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

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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]

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]

Calls for stronger industry–academia partnerships in Kenya

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: The Principal Secretary for ICT and the Digital Economy, Eng. John Kipchumba Tanui, CBS, has called for stronger partnerships between industry and academia to equip Kenya’s youth with practical, market-relevant skills that respond to the demands of a rapidly evolving economy. Eng. Tanui made [Read More]

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]

Sierra Leone counts down to first fully digital census

John Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 October 2026: Sierra Leone has begun the final 50-day countdown to its 2026 Population and Housing Census, with government officials and development partners calling for nationwide participation in the country’s first fully digital enumeration exercise. The countdown was launched at the Miatta Civic Centre [Read More]

Contempt of court or contempt of due process? The detention of former Attorney General of Sierra Leone – Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: The unfortunate events of 7 and 8 October 2026, involving the Chief Justice of Sierra Leone, Justice Komba Kamanda, and former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK), during the Supreme Court proceedings concerning the Constitutional Amendment Bill, raise fundamental questions about [Read More]

Chief of Staff of ECOWAS standby force pays courtesy call on the Nigerian Chief of Army Staff

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: The Chief of Staff, ECOWAS Standby Force (COS ESF), Brigadier General Sheikh Massaquoi and the Commander, ECOWAS Logistics Depot (ELD), Lungi (Photo above), Navy Captain Idenyi Jude Akpa, accompanied by staff officers of the ECOWAS Standby Force (ESF) and the Peace Support Operations Division [Read More]

Cameroon advocates for lifting of Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) suspension in Brussels

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: Cameroon’s Minister of Mines, Industry and Technological Development – Professor FUH CALISTUS Gentry, met last Friday with Mrs Maria van der Hoeven, Chair of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Board, to advocate for the lifting of Cameroon’s suspension. Held on the sidelines of [Read More]

Merck Foundation CEO, Dr. Rasha Kelej highlights the importance of changing community expectations to empower girls through education

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: As part of her virtual Mentorship and Leadership Platform, “Beyond Power; Leadership, Global Influence and Impact,” Dr. Rasha Kelej, CEO of Merck Foundation, has shared a new leadership article titled “Before a Girl Can Reach Her Potential, Her Family and Community Must Believe She [Read More]

Turning experience into action for women’s health and empowerment

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 October 2026: As we celebrate Black History Month here in the UK, today we honour a remarkable Sierra Leonean, living and working in London. She is Adama Nyama Bah. By any measure, Adama Nyama Bah has lived a remarkable life. Born in Kabala, the headquarters of [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s prickly Chief Justice Komba Kamanda lost his rag and ordered the arrest of senior opposition lawyer for contempt of Supreme Court

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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 October 2026: There was drama at Sierra Leone’s Supreme Court yesterday, as the senior lawyer for the country’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) party – Barrister Joseph Fitzgerald Kamara (JFK) who himself is a former Attorney-General, was asked by the Chief Justice – Komba Kamanda [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s dilemma – National Election Watch, a constitution in dispute, and 2028 on the horizon

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Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2026: In 2002, shortly after Sierra Leone emerged from a devastating civil war and began the difficult work of rebuilding its democracy, 494 registered civil society organizations formed the National Election Watch (NEW). Its mission was both ambitious and essential: to monitor, [Read More]

Sierra Leone – A sum of errors

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Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2026: Sierra Leone has never lacked brilliant people. Our deeper failure has been our inability to build institutions that can multiply that brilliance. (Photo: Dr Davidson Nicol was the first black African elected as a Fellow of a Cambridge college – a [Read More]

President Bio’s protection of wanted global narcotics baron puts Sierra Leone’s economy at risk as EU stops aid

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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2026: Hundreds of millions of dollars planned investments to Sierra Leone by foreign companies, may now be at risk as the European Union (EU) this week decides to halt its financial aid to the country. The EU’s decision comes following President Bio’s reluctance to extradite [Read More]

Call for nominations for Sierra Leone Diaspora Excellence Awards

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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2026: Members of the global Sierra Leonean community can submit nominations across 12 distinct categories celebrating impact across sectors. Investor of the Year Recognizes the highest verifiable capital deployed into local, job-creating ventures in Sierra Leone. Returnee Trailblazer Honors returnees who have built and sustained [Read More]

ECOWAS, European Union, and GIZ initiate new regional energy governance and information system for West Africa

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Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 October 2026: The new Regional Energy Governance and Information System in West Africa (REGIS-WA) kicked -off with a workshop, marking a decisive step towards harmonizing regional energy governance, reinforcing data architecture, and accelerating cross-border clean energy integration across West Africa. The project implemented under the Directorate [Read More]

Calls for stronger industry–academia partnerships in Kenya

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