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Month: August 2019

Politics & Law

Kashor Holland Cole is re-arrested as bail is rescinded

August 15, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 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]

Politics & Law

Alarming rise in political arrests in Sierra Leone

August 15, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 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]

Economy & Business

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

August 15, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 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]

Politics & Law

Sierra Leone embraces new Strategy to tackle corruption

August 14, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 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]

Economy & Business

How to strengthen Sierra Leone’s currency – the Leone

August 14, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 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]

Economy & Business

China ramps up support for Sierra Leone

August 14, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 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]

Politics & Law

Sam Sumana breaks silence on APC – C4C relationship

August 13, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 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]

Economy & Business

The economy is not stupid – it’s our politics that’s gone mad

August 13, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 11

Concerned citizen: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2019: It is a fact that Sierra Leone’s economy is taking a nose dive. Whether it is the cost of goods, rising inflation or stagnated wages, a lot of people measure the performance of the economy against the Leone versus US Dollar exchange [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sierra Leone needs drastic structural reforms to turn economy around

August 12, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 13

Prince Jacob Macauley: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2019: People of Sierra Leone have come to realize that we cannot keep on doing the same thing and hope to get different result. The economic policies that have been followed are not helping; and we have an ongoing economic crisis as [Read More]

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