The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2014 Viettel has become the only mobile phone operator in Africa to win three prestigious international awards in three consecutive years. Movitel, SA – a joint venture between Vietnamese telecommunications group Viettel and Mozambique’s SPI company – has won the “Best Mobile Innovation Award” [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2014 Orange has today commenced West Africa’s first very large-capacity IP Point of Presence (PoP). The operational launch of this facility, which is located in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, is set to enhance Internet connectivity in the sub-region. The service will offer faster connection speeds [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2014 Gemalto – the world leader in digital security, has said it will provide its support to the GSMA Pan-African mHealth Initiative (PAMI), a mobile ecosystem that aims to improve maternal and child health and nutrition in sub-Saharan Africa. Acting as one of the [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2014 Some years back, there appeared in this column an article with the title; “when will they ever learn?” Today’s heading is a rearrangement of those words, because the question is now directed at all of us, and not [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay – China The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2014 The embassies of the three sister Mano River Union countries in China – Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, currently plagued by the deadly Ebola epidemic, met on Friday, July 11, at the Sierra Leone embassy in Beijing. They [Read More]
Yankuba Kai-Samba The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 July 2014 The last twenty-four hours has been a roller coaster for the pa-o-pas in the SLPP. All because a leading SLPP flag bearer front runner, has accepted an offer to sit on the Koroma government’s Commission for Electricity and Water. Various professional [Read More]
Mohamed Kunowah Kiellow The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 July 2014 In a poem ‘The Misfortune Teller – I have a dream that 2014 will be…’ which I wrote at the beginning of this year, I predicted that 2014 will witness the clipping of the wings of freedoms that are important [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 July 2014 Sierra Leone is set to become home country of the West Africa Regional Office of the Confucius Institute of the People’s Republic of China. (Photo: John Baimba Sesay). This follows fruitful discussions held recently in Beijing, between representatives of the [Read More]
Dr. Sama Banya – Puawui The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 July 2014 I had written before that Teacher Olumbe Bassir taught biology and nature Studies from Prep to School Certificate level at Bo School. He left in September 1946 for the United Kingdom on a Nuffield scholarship, to pursue an [Read More]
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