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Month: October 2018

Politics & Law

Former president Ernest Koroma apologises to the APC party

October 27, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 11

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2018: Former president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, has finally broken silence since his party lost the presidential and general elections held in March this year. According to report by APC stalwart – Chernor Ojuku Sesay, the former president was yesterday, Friday 26 [Read More]

Economy & Business

Exposing land grabbing cartels in Sierra Leone

October 26, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Theophilus Sahr Gbenda: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2018: Recent developments around land governance and land ownership have left many with an impression that in the next five to ten years in Sierra Leone, issues around land will be a major flash point for bloody conflicts. Focusing on the Freetown [Read More]

Economy & Business

Who sanctioned the construction of these illegal structures in Freetown?

October 26, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sitta Turay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2018: Try walking on foot in Freetown today and face the hassle from motorists, pickpockets and open gutters with damaged slabs that may cost a broken leg. Traders have occupied the remaining footpaths that illegal structures are yet to occupy. Nothing is more [Read More]

Politics & Law

SLPP North America Convention kicks off this weekend in New York

October 26, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2018: Members of the Sierra Leone People’s Party North America Region (SLPPNA) will today converge in Bronx, New York for the party’s 2018 Annual Convention, taking place this weekend. Highlights of the convention include two full days of deliberations, breakout sessions, a stakeholder forum, and [Read More]

Politics & Law

Youth – getting ready for public office

October 25, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Leon Usigbe: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 October 2018: Young Africans celebrate the first fruit of ‘Not Too Young to Run’ Campaign. With few or no opportunities to emerge as candidates for elective offices – because they are too young or because they have limited experience – some young Africans are [Read More]

Education and Health

Free Australian app can help tackle a deadly health scourge

October 25, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 October 2018: Sierra Leone has some of the highest reported rates of hepatitis B and C in the world, and now a free app is available to Sierra Leoneans fighting the disease. Speaking to the Sierra Leone Telegraph, Mark Pearce who is the Communications Manager for Hepatitis [Read More]

Economy & Business

President Bio meets deputy foreign affairs minister of the UAE

October 24, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2018: President Julius Maada Bio today hosted the deputy minister of foreign affairs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Yakoub Yusuf Alfu-Salim at State House in Freetown, where they discussed plans to strengthen bilateral ties between Sierra Leone and the UAE. The UAE envoy [Read More]

Economy & Business

Vice president Juldeh Jalloh launches EITA project phase two

October 24, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Tamba Tengbeh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2018: Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Mines and Mineral Resources (MMMR) officially launched a $20 million World Bank funded Extractive Industries Technical Assistance Project (EITAP2) Phase Two, at a well-attended ceremony at the Miatta Conference Hall in Freetown, yesterday Tuesday 23th October, 2018. Speaking [Read More]

Politics & Law

Human rights body calls on president Bio to observe rule of law

October 24, 2018 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2018: Early this year, just three months after he was elected Head of State, president Julius Maada Bio took a decision to dissolve the Boards of all state-appointed Commissions, parastatals and other state institutions, as he considered many of them to be unaccountable, self-serving and [Read More]

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