Erin Accampo Hern: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Women are less likely than men to participate in politics in Africa. This gender gap affects everything from attending community meetings to contacting elected officials, joining others to raise public issues, expressing a partisan preference and even voting. On average, women [Read More]
Mercè Labordena: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Electricity lifts people out of poverty and improves their health and standards of living. Yet 1.3 billion of the world’s people don’t have access to it. And more than half of them are in sub-Saharan Africa. Getting affordable electricity to the sub-Saharan population [Read More]
Ayodele Odusola: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2018: Africa’s experience on inward foreign direct investment (FDI) presents a paradox. Conventionally, capital is expected to flow from countries with low to high returns. During 2006-2011, the region experienced the highest rate of return on FDI (11.4%) compared to 9.1% in Asia, [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 June 2018: The drums may have fallen silent, the last bugle and trumpets sounded, and the dusty feet washed and oiled for another day. And so, it came to pass that President Julius Maada Bio was successfully inaugurated on the 12th of May 2018. [Read More]
Author: Mohamed Bahr: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2018: The sickening spectacle of chaos and mayhem that unfolded in the well of parliament during the sitting of the fifth parliament of the second Republic, seems to have been conjured from a gangster movie of dim –witted desperados and bovine bandits. [Read More]
Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 June 2018: Who would have guessed the debate by Parliament on the President’s speech would have gone off to such a dream start? Social media went into overdrive analysing the maiden speeches of two APC MPs who made a good, if unusual start to [Read More]
Author: Sorie Fofana: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2018: A two-year Utility Grid Infrastructure and Electricity Supply Agreement between the Government of Sierra Leone – represented by the Ministry of Energy and the Karadeniz Powership Kaya Bey Company Limited, for the generation of 30MW of electricity has been concluded. But [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 June 2018: The August 14th 2017 mudslide, which took place at the Motema Community in Regent, Freetown, Sierra Leone, left over 1000 Sierra Leoneans dead and many displaced, after a heavy and sustained downpour of torrential rainfall. According to yesterday’s report by State House media officer – [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 June 2018: Political tension is rising again in Sierra Leone, after the recent murder of an opposition APC party politician in the far west of the capital Freetown. Although the police are yet to make an official statement about his death, members of the APC party [Read More]
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