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Sierra Leone scores high on the 2020 MCC scorecard but more needs to be done fast

November 3, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 November 2019: Last Friday, president Julius Maada Bio received the latest report of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) into the government’s performance in managing the affairs of the country. According to the report, which was presented to the president by Maria Brewer – the American ambassador [Read More]

Economy & Business

The engineering behind Sierra Leone’s 79% MCC control of corruption score card

November 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 6

Moris I. Kanteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2nd November 2019: The latest Millennium Corporation Challenge (MCC) 2020 Scorecard report published on Friday, 1st November 2019, has seen Sierra Leone register an extraordinary 79% out of a possible 100%. It is  the biggest ever rating in the country’s effort in controlling corruption, since [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sierra Leone Commercial Bank makes it easy and safe to send money abroad from Sierra Leone

November 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2019: Sierra Leone’s largest indigenous owned bank – the Sierra Leone Commercial Bank (SLCB), last Wednesday launched a pioneering service, which will see customers now able to send money abroad from Sierra Leone, as well as receive funds from abroad with much ease and security. [Read More]

Politics & Law

Performance audit report on the issuing of building permits now in parliament

November 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Audit Service SL: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2019: The Auditor-General of Sierra Leone wishes to inform the public that the Performance Audit Report on Assessment and Issuance of Building Permits by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and the Environment (MLHE) has been tabled in Parliament on Tuesday 29th October, [Read More]

Economy & Business

Sierra Leone household survey reveals serious poverty in most households

November 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2019: Minister of Planning and Economic Development – Dr. Francis Kai-Kai, last Monday launched the 2018 Sierra Leone Integrated Household Survey (SLIHS) Report, which shows that over two million of households in the country are suffering abject poverty. The event was organised by Statistics Sierra [Read More]

Politics & Law

Freetown goes ‘green’ as president Bio boosts national cleaning campaign

November 2, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 November 2019: Freetown the capital of Sierra Leone, one of the two most important ‘swing regions’ in the country’s political and electoral landscape, is believed to be increasingly going ‘green’ – the colour of the ruling SLPP party, as well as becoming more ecologically conscious, since [Read More]

Politics & Law

Access to justice for all is not yet a reality but there are ways forward – an opinion

November 1, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Patricia Scotland – Commonwealth Secretary-General: Sierra Leone Telegraph:1 November 2019 Access to justice for everyone in all communities is an important right and requirement for building fair and peaceful societies – yet this objective has been achieved in few if any nations, and the consequences are damaging for social, economic [Read More]

Politics & Law

Juldeh v Samura – the poisoned “call of the minaret”

November 1, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Andrew Keili: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 November 2019: The problem is that politics has power; religion has only love, peace and the experience of the divine. Politics can easily interfere with religion; and it has been interfering all along, to such an extent that it has destroyed many religious values [Read More]

Politics & Law

Commission of Inquiry to commence investigation into assets of former president Koroma and senior officials

November 1, 2019 Abdul Rashid Thomas 18

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 1 November 2019: In Sierra Leone, the long-awaited inquiry into the assets of former president Koroma and other senior public officials in his APC government, will commence sitting on Monday, 11 November 2019. The inquiry will look into the financial affairs of former president Ernest Bai Koroma, [Read More]

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