Sierra Leone telegraph: 18 July 2020: There are disturbing reports coming from Makeni in the north of Sierra leone, where military personnel have fired teargas and live bullets at local people protesting against the government’s removal of an electricity power generator from the city to relocate to the town of [Read More]
Abdul Malik Bangura: Sierra Leone telegraph: 18 July 2020: As first Shipment expected in October to December 2020, Kingho Investment says it will employ over 2000 Sierra Leoneans to revamp iron ore mining in Tonkolili District. At the peak of a global pandemic which has ravaged economies of all countries [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 July 2020: The government of Sierra Leone has this week agreed a 5-year contract with the Turkish owned Karpowership – one of the world’s largest operators of floating power plants, to continue to provide electricity for the country’s capital Freetown. It is not certain how much [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2020: Authorities in Sierra Leone will reopen the country’s international Lungi Airport next Wednesday, 22 July 2020, after four months of closure due to the global coronavirus pandemic. last week, president Bio announced that details of safety measures for passengers arriving at and leaving Lungi [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 July 2020: There is at long last, a ray of hope in Sierra Leone for journalists as members of parliament yesterday debated the repeal of Part 5 of the Public Order Act of 1965 (Act No.46 of 1965) which has been used by politicians of varying [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 July 2020: When international human rights organisations start calling on a Head of State to respect the civil and human rights of citizens in accordance with the country’s constitution, then questions must be asked about the direction the country is heading. Early this week, the Canadian-based [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 July 2020: It is now almost eighteen months since President Dr Julius Maada Bio declared a national state of emergency on the growing rape crisis in Sierra Leone. Yesterday, he once again called on parents and local communities to support his government’s efforts in tackling rape, [Read More]
Chris Cox/PGA TOUR: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2020: Tiger Woods is back on the tee. There is little need to overcomplicate the storyline beyond that. The 82-time PGA Tour winner and the world’s most talked-about player is set to make his much-anticipated return this week at the Memorial Tournament [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 July 2020: Social media is awash with videos of several communities, roads and valleys inundated by heavy rains in Freetown, threatening to trigger serious flooding and possible mudslide, reminiscent of the 2017 mudlslide disaster that took the lives of over a thousand people, mostly children and [Read More]
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