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Month: February 2021

Education and Health

Sierra Leone activates Ebola emergency response after four dead in Guinea

February 14, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021: Following confirmation yesterday by the Guinean Health Ministry that four people had died of Ebola at a hospital in the Guinean – Sierra Leone border town of Guerkedou, near the town of Yenga in eastern Sierra Leone, the government of Sierra Leone says it [Read More]

Politics & Law

Bank official sacked in Sierra Leone after harmless banter with wife of the president

February 14, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 18

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021: The Sierra Leone Telegraph has joined very loud calls in and outside of Sierra Leone for the reinstatement of a Union Trust Bank (UTB) employee – Mr. Garvyn Cole (Photo above), who was instantly dismissed last Thursday, after posting a message on the Facebook [Read More]

Education and Health

Ebola makes a comeback in West Africa – killing four people in Guinea

February 14, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021: Guinea’s Health Ministry yesterday confirmed that four people have died of Ebola at a hospital in the Guinean – Sierra Leone border town of Guerkedou, near the town of Yenga in eastern Sierra Leone. There are fears this could spark a resurgence of the [Read More]

Economy & Business

Innovative water project will improve lives of Freetown residents

February 13, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: In December 2020 the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the Freetown City Council (FCC) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) jointly launched the Freetown-Blue Peace project, an initiative that will leverage innovative finance to implement a sustainable water [Read More]

Politics & Law

New financing model to tackle water and sanitation challenges in Sierra Leone

February 13, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: Isatu Sesay, a resident of Kissy Brook in eastern Freetown, Sierra Leone, buys water daily from young men in the community who hawk five-gallon water jugs loaded on flatbed pushcarts. “We pay Le500 [USD .50 cents] for each five gallons of water,” [Read More]

Economy & Business

President Bio unveils Le100 Billion Enterprise Development Fund for struggling businesses

February 13, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone yesterday announced a new Le100 Billion National Enterprise Development Fund, at a well-attended event in the northern town of Magburaka. The fund will support micro, small and medium-sized businesses that are struggling to gain access to finance [Read More]

Obituary

In memoriam – Alhaji Miniru Alusaine Savage

February 13, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: The funeral of Alhaji Miniru Alhusaine Savage will take place at the Gardens of Peace Muslim Cemetery, Five Oaks Lane, Chigwell Essex, IG7 4QP , London at 11:00AM, tomorrow Sunday, 14th February 2021. Due to Covid-19 restrictions the maximum number of people allowed in [Read More]

Economy & Business

Bread and butter issues in Sierra Leone – citizens demand review of taxation policy

February 12, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 8

Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 February 2021: Indisputably, in any nation, the private sector is considered to be the engine of economic growth rather than the public sector, as it creates jobs as well as contributes towards internal mobilization of revenue through the payment of taxes which, in [Read More]

Abdulai Mansaray

Corruption – hatred and ‘cancel culture’ in Sierra Leone

February 12, 2021 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 February 2021: Corruption has always been and will continue to be a permanent universal feature in our lives. In Sierra Leone, irrespective of one’s political affiliation, we all agree that corruption is not only prevalent, but also one of the diseases haemorrhaging our economic [Read More]

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