Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2021: The United States government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has announced it will provide $1 million in urgent COVID-19 assistance to Sierra Leone. The government of Sierra Leone is facing serious financial shortfall, as donor countries cut their aid budget [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2021: 2018 presidential election candidate for the Alliance Democratic Party (ADP) in Sierra Leone, Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray may die in prison, if steps are not taken to urgently release him on bail so he can obtain medical care. Kamaraimba who is facing charges under Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 August 2021: Over a week ago, State House in Freetown announced that president Bio will be arriving in Turkey for a two-weeks holiday and to seek much needed private sector investments for Sierra Leone’s ailing industrial sectors. Yesterday, State House officials reported that president Bio and [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 August 2021: There is a growing anger over the way Afghanistan has fallen back into the hands of the Taliban. It is not surprising that most of the anger has been directed at the US, the self-proclaimed universal saviour from the “uncivilised” world. Many [Read More]
Dr. Ezekiel K. Duramany-Lakkoh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2016: The problem is not redenomination, but how it is implemented. Proponents of currency recalibration techniques have argued that, if implemented properly by introducing further counter inflationary and monetary policies, redenomination will lead to a new exchange rate which will create [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2021: Zambia’s main opposition party leader – Mr Hakainde Hichilema has today been declared the winner of the country’s elections, after much uncertainty and fear of political violence breaking out across the country. The Business tycoon won the hotly contested presidential election, defeating incumbent president [Read More]
Memuna Forna: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2021: Over 40 representatives of Sierra Leone’s financial sector came together on 4 August, 2021 to kick off a ground-breaking series of sectoral public–private dialogue (PPD) intended to institutionalise private sector engagement in decision making and feed into Sierra Leone’s first Presidential PPD. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 August 2021: The government of Sierra Leone last night announced it has lifted its ban on churches and mosques’ Sunday and Friday worship, a measure imposed by the government to help curtail the rising numbers of Covid infections, hospitalisation, and deaths. According to the public notice [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2021: Yesterday’s elections in Zambia went on relatively smoothly and peacefully, with a few disruptive incidents, one of which resulted in the death of a regional chairman of the ruling Patriotic Front (PF) party. As expected, the polls were a two-horse race between the incumbent [Read More]
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