Dr. Kandeh K. Yumkella Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2015 On October 3rd 2016, our government finally accepted the reality that our economy is bankrupt, with the publication of a press release from State House. The statement detailed austerity measures they will take to improve revenue mobilization and fiscal sustainability, as [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2016 Last Friday, 18th November 2016, Sierra Leone’s finance minister Momodu Kargbo delivered the government’s budget statement for 2017 to parliament. It is a budget the government is hoping will address the growing abject poverty, that over 70% of the country’s population is now suffering. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 November 2016 A twenty-three year old female student – Theresa Mbomaya, was last weekend arrested and detained at the maximum security prison in Freetown, for sharing a WhatsApp message she herself did not create. According to the Koroma government, she committed a crime against the state, [Read More]
Dr Jonathan Bonopha Tengbe Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 November 2016 This is not the first time Sierra Leone is experiencing austerity measures. But what is certain is that each time the APC is in power, the country will be plunged into economic chaos. But the difference this time is that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 November 2016 IMF conditionalities have returned to Sierra Leone with a vengeance; or have they? Many in Sierra Leone are saying that the current economic downturn and austerity being imposed upon the poor people of Sierra Leone by the Koroma government, are the result of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 November 2016 The streets of Freetown and other major towns and cities across Sierra Leone remain tense, as the people of Sierra Leone react to the government’s announcement last week to remove the subsidy that has for several years, helped to cushion the poor from the [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 November 2016 As more and more programmes for the agenda for austerity, oops; sorry, I mean prosperity, are rolled out by the government and my mind wonders to the goings-on in Sierra Leone, I offer my silent prayer to the God that designed [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2016 Dear Commissioner Ady Macauley I’m writing on behalf of the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI), to respectfully request that the Anti-Corruption Commission Sierra Leone (ACC-SL) begin an investigation into the Sierra Leone Parliament, for some potentially illegal practices and misappropriation of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2016 The American people have spoken. They have chosen their new president, amidst massive anxiety and fear of what this change could mean, not only for the people of America, but for the entire world. They have on Tuesday, the 8th of November 2016, chosen [Read More]
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