Freetown Waste Transformers: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2022: Freetown Waste Transformers (FWT) is excited to announce that we have secured Development funding of USD 3.9 million from Climate Fund Managers (CFM), along with our technology partners, The Waste Transformers (TWT) to continue the journey of waste vaporization in Freetown, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 May 2022: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) is being accused of leading government’s campaign to unseat the Mayor of Freetown, Mrs Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr from office, with a possibility of banning her for three years from politics. This comes after the ACC published a notice last week, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 May 2022: No foreign company operating in Sierra Leone or local firm paying for goods and service coming from abroad can function without the supply of foreign currencies by the Bank of Sierra Leone to make payment transactions. Last week, the government of Sierra Leone issued [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2022: Mohamed Sidi Tunis, Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament, said on Friday in Dakar that decriminalization of opposition parties doing their function needs to be addressed. He was speaking at the Sub-regional Dialogue on Sustaining Democratic Principles in West Africa as a panellist in the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2022: The West Africa Elders Forum (WEAF) this week held a two-day dialogue in Dakar, Senegal where they discussed peace, security and democracy in the subregion. The event was inspired by recent reversals in democratic good governance. Established by the Goodluck Jonathan Foundation, the Forum [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2022: Speaking in Dakar, Senegal this week, former President of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, said that despite pressures for him to change the country’s Constitution to run for a third term, he refused because he did not believe its the right thing to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 May 2022: With just over a year before presidential and general elections are held in Sierra Leone, President Bio yesterday delivered his final state of the nation report at the state opening of the country’s parliament. Speaking to a full House with much heckling from opposition [Read More]
Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 May 2022: Four years ago today, on 11th May 2018, I was sworn-in as the Mayor of Freetown. I am grateful to God, to the APC party and to the great people of this city for giving me this opportunity to serve [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 May 2022: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has launched Sierra Leone’s bid for a seat in the non-permanent category of the United Nations Security Council, UNSC, for the period 2024-2025. In his statement, President Bio recalled that in just eight years after Sierra Leone became a [Read More]
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