Dr. Sylvia Olayinka Blyden OOR: Siera Leone Telegraph: 12 June 2021: In the midst of accolades being showered on Sierra Leone’s President Bio as a so-called “Champion of Free Speech”, it is a fact that a young member of the main opposition All Peoples Congress (APC) party, Mr. Michael Magba [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 June 2021: Last Wednesday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio was recognised as Press Freedom Champion by the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), whose leadership paid tribute to his government’s repeal of the 1965 criminal libel laws which have been used by successive governments – including [Read More]
Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 June 2021: A recent study by the World Food Programme (WFP) says that over 4.7 million people out of a population of just over 7 million in Sierra Leone are food insecure. This means that 66 percent of the population cannot meet their basic [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2021: 2021 Ibrahim Governance Weekend concluded last week with a rallying call from Mo Ibrahim to use the Covid pandemic response to build a more self-reliant Africa. Discussing the impact of COVID-19 on Africa, the 2021 Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW) heard that Africa has demonstrated [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2021: A disgraceful video showing a Racist Chinese worker in Sierra Leone, West Africa, violently attacking a Sierra Leonean employee has not only gone viral but has attracted massive condemnation and calls for the Chinese worker to be arrested, charged to court, imprisoned, and then [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2021: Sierra Leone’s oceans and marine ecosystems have recently become a focus of intense media attention, following widespread national and international reports of a $55 million secret deal between the governments of Sierra Leone and China, involving an alleged sale of hundreds of acres of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2021: Yesterday, Sierra Leone’s Chief Electoral Commissioner and Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC) Mohamed Konneh, presented his annual report for 2020 and strategic plan for 2020–2024 to President Bio. Mohamed Konneh said that the 2020 report reflected a significant milestone in the evolution [Read More]
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2021: While what is called free-market economy has many advantages; such as fostering innovation, variety, and individual choice, it also has disadvantages, such as a tendency for an inequitable distribution of wealth, poorer work conditions, and environmental degradation. We have heard people [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 June 2021: The World Bank yesterday announced that it has approved $8.5 million grant in additional financing to support affordable and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines in Sierra Leone. Early this year, Sierra Leone received 296,000 doses in total, with China supplying 200,000 doses, and 96,000 [Read More]
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