Sierra Leone News

A legacy of youth empowerment in Sierra Leone

August 21, 2019 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2019: It is not often that a 33-year-old is made a minister in Africa. Mohammed Orman Bangura is gaining popularity in Sierra Leone for substantive work and for his style. Reporting for Africa Renewal, Osman Benk Sankoh says that the youth affairs minister, is determined [Read More]

A legacy of youth empowerment in Sierra Leone

August 21, 2019 4

APC condemns the “unjust and indiscriminate” arrest of its members

August 20, 2019 11

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2019: Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) Party is today condemning the arrest and incarceration of its members and supporters by the police. Writing in a public statement published yesterday, the party’s National Secretary General – Alhaji Dr Osman Foday Yansaneh refers to [Read More]

Floods and mudslides in Sierra Leone – How did we get to this and who is to blame?

August 20, 2019 7

Cyril Barnes: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2019: Let me start by expressing my deepest condolence to families who have lost their loved ones in torrential rainfall since 2016. May their souls rest in eternal peace. The world has been such a beautiful place since creation. What has gone worng? [Read More]

IMF representative in Sierra Leone says goodbye to the country

August 20, 2019 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2019: The outgoing Resident Representative of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Sierra Leone – Dr Iyabo Masha, was in State House in Freetown yesterday, Monday 19 August 2019, to say goodbye to president Julius Maada Bio, marking the end of her tenure in Sierra [Read More]

What is it about “Saturday police?”

August 19, 2019 1

PUAWUI DR SAMA BANYA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2019: Readers must forgive me for opening today’s column by acknowledging the compliment paid to me last Friday by no less a person than my nephew, who has become a legendary columnist not simply in his own right, but among the [Read More]

Another opposition politician – former Freetown Mayor arrested

August 19, 2019 15

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2019: There are reports tonight of the arrest in Freetown of another opposition APC strongman – the former Mayor of Freetown, who is also the Acting Chairman of the APC Western Area Committee – Mr Herbert George Williams. His arrest by Sierra Leone police today [Read More]

Government invokes joint military and police operation to curb crime

August 19, 2019 11

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2019: The government of president Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, last week invoked a joint operation of both military and police officers to patrol the streets and areas that are notorious for serious crimes across the country. This joint operation, known as the Military [Read More]

Guma gives notice to households in areas along water transmission lines

August 19, 2019 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2019: Guma Valley Water Company (GVWC) – the agency responsible for supplying water across sierra Leone’s capital city Freetown, has issued a warning to residents whose houses are built in the vicinity of its water transmission lines, where major rehabilitation work will soon take place, [Read More]

Maada Bio – the hard road ahead – part 3

August 18, 2019 1

Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 August 2019: The fight against corruption in Sierra Leone has begun. It is on course and gathering traction, under the fearless leadership of Mr Francis Ben Kaifala, the Commissioner of the country’s Anti- Corruption Commission. Kaifala’s real strength lies with president Julius Maada Bio, [Read More]

Ghana upgrades capacity to handle infectious diseases

August 18, 2019 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 August 2019: KT Corporation has today announced that its Global Epidemic Prevention Platform (GEPP) started service in Ghana on 14 August 2019 – the first such endeavour outside of Korea. KT, the leading Korean telecommunication provider, said that the landmark platform, GEPP Ghana, was officially launched [Read More]

Maada Bio – the hard road ahead – part 2

August 17, 2019 3

Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2019: As no new nation is built on virgin ground, so it is with governments. All new governments must contend with the legacies of its predecessor, whatever they may be. President Julius Maada Bio’s ‘New Direction’ is the same old Poverty Reduction Strategy [Read More]

What direction Sierra Leone’s economy? Dr Kandeh Yumkella speaks out

August 17, 2019 15

Anthony Kamara, Jnr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2019: Sierra Leone’s Finance Minister – JJ Saffa, was at the studios of Radio Democracy 98.1 last Monday. By all indications, his performance during a live interview did not offer Sierra Leoneans much hope for an improvement in their economic wellbeing, as [Read More]

Maada Bio – the hard road ahead

August 16, 2019 5

Abayomi Tejan: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2019: ‘Fortune favours the daring’ is epitome of President Julius Maada Bio’s incredulous, (in the minds of a fairly large chunk of sceptics,) ascendancy to the highest office in the state. Absolutely phenomenal. It contradicted theories shopped around that any other SLPP candidate, [Read More]

Sixteen deported from US to Sierra Leone – more to follow

August 16, 2019 30

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2019: It is thought that there are as many as one hundred thousand or more Sierra Leoneans or people with Sierra Leonean passports, living in the United States. Many are believed to be illegal immigrants or serving jail term. After decades of US humanitarian policy [Read More]

Kashor Holland Cole is re-arrested as bail is rescinded

August 15, 2019 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2019: The Sierra Leone Telegraph has just learnt tonight, that the opposition APC politician and chairman of Sierra Leone’s Western Area Rural District Council has this evening been re-arrested, after he was granted bail this afternoon. He will be spending the night at the notorious [Read More]

Alarming rise in political arrests in Sierra Leone

August 15, 2019 36

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2019. Another opposition APC politician has been arrested by police in Sierra Leone, in what many now fear is a continuation of a major crackdown on the opposition by the ruling SLPP, as by-election in the Hamilton constituency in Freetown draws closer. This brings the [Read More]

No more business as usual – Sierra Leone government warns mining companies

August 15, 2019 9

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 August 2019: The government of president Julius Maada Bio is warning mining companies not to expect business as usual, where due diligence, accountability and fiduciary responsibility are sacrificed by those in power for contract kickbacks. This stern warning comes, as the government continues to review all [Read More]

Sierra Leone embraces new Strategy to tackle corruption

August 14, 2019 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2019: Sierra Leone’s vice president Dr. Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, yesterday Tuesday 13th August, 2019, launched the country’s new National Anti-Corruption Strategy (NACS) that will be delivered by the ACC in 2019 to 2023. The Strategy was unveiled at the Miatta Conference Centre, in Brookfields, Freetown, [Read More]

How to strengthen Sierra Leone’s currency – the Leone

August 14, 2019 5

PUAWUI DR SAMA BANYA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2019: I am not an economist. The nearest that I dabbled in the economy of Sierra Leone was when I was Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development in the One Party government of the then President Siaka Stevens. I lasted [Read More]

China ramps up support for Sierra Leone

August 14, 2019 12

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2019: China is sending almost 7,000 tons of food aid to Sierra Leone to help cushion the effects of the growing hardship facing millions of Sierra Leoneans, as the government struggles to manage the economic downturn. Millions of people, especially children are at risk of [Read More]

Sam Sumana breaks silence on APC – C4C relationship

August 13, 2019 17

John B. Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2019: Chief Samuel Sam-Sumana was Sierra Leone’s Vice President from September 17, 2007 to March 17, 2015. He was in 2015, expelled from the All People’s Congress, after he was accused of trying to form a breakaway party, among other charges, all [Read More]