SierraEye: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2023: Sierra Leone this week announced a landmark agreement with China for the construction of an 8-kilometer bridge connecting Freetown to the Lungi Airport, a project said to be estimated to cost $1.5 billion. While the prospect of improved connectivity between Freetown and Lungi [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 December 2023: The government of Sierra Leone has signed a memorandum of understanding with China Road and Bridge Corporation and the Atepa Group’s architectural firm, for the construction of a 5 miles long bridge across Freetown to Lungi, at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion, government [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2023: A new action group announced in Dubai today will help Commonwealth countries, including African member states, rapidly cut emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane as part of wider efforts to keep rising global temperatures within liveable limits. The country-led coalition was announced at [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2023: African leaders’ obsession with and fixation on milking their poor nations’ coffers, is really getting out of all proportion. If its not President Bio of Sierra Leone – who has been dubbed “President Fly Fly”, its Tinubu of Nigeria who ought to be setting [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 December 2023: A new implementation framework was launched yesterday to facilitate coordinated action among the 56 Commonwealth countries, including African member states, on land, biodiversity and climate challenges, directly impacting a quarter of the world’s land area. The Commonwealth Secretariat unveiled the Living Lands Charter Implementation [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2023: C40 Co-Chair and Mayor of Freetown – Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, delivered a powerful statement at the UN Secretary-General’s event on Non-State Actor Ambition: Implementation of the High-Level Expert Group report Integrity Matters at COP28. This is what she said: “Dear Excellencies, “Mayors are at the [Read More]
Kenneth Vandi: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 December 2023: Sierra Leoneans at this time will frown at any fundamental breach of the 1991 Constitution of the country, especially with regards to the Fundamental Human Rights of citizens that the Constitution is there to protect. At about 8:00 pm yesterday, 2nd of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 December 2023: In the last hour, President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has delivered his second address to the nation. “Our response to the events of November 26 will be measured and determined solely by one Parameter – the rule of law,” he vowed. But [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 December 2023: Bai Mahmoud Bangura, the National Organising Secretary of Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party was yesterday arrested at his residence by armed police, as the wave of arrests of senior APC officials continues in response to what the government says was an attempted coup [Read More]
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