Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 January 2024: President Julius Maada Bio yesterday joined the world in celebrating International Day of Education under the theme: “Learning for Lasting Peace”, at this year’s national event in the southern city of Bo. The five-day celebration, which started on January 22, brought together school pupils [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 January 2024: The court of public opinion on Sierra Leone is in full swing, thanks to the recent political and judicial gymnastics surrounding the former President of Sierra Leone Dr Ernest Bai Koroma. There is no doubt that Sierra Leone is venturing into uncharted [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2024: The Commonwealth Secretary-General, the Rt Hon Patricia Scotland KC, addressed leaders from 121 Non-Aligned Movement countries, calling for greater cooperation to protect all humanity from overlapping economic, environmental and security challenges. She was speaking at the 19th Summit of Heads of State and Government [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2024: One of the Transform Freetown Sanitation targets is “to ensure that at least 60% of solid and liquid waste is safely collected, managed and disposed of”. In order to address the liquid waste element of that target, with funding from FCDO and with GOAL [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2024: Following a successful pilot programme, today the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccines are being administered through routine immunisation programmes across Africa, beginning with Cameroon. Vaccinations are taking place across 42 health districts, chosen in order to give the most vulnerable children with the highest [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2024: The United States Embassy in Sierra Leone yesterday confirmed in a statement that Linda Thomas Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations will be visiting Sierra Leone this week, after fake social media report went viral last week claiming that U.S. Secretary of States [Read More]
FCC Comms: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2024: Freetown City Council won the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Mayors Challenge in 2021 along with 14 other cities. Our winning proposal was the development of a sustainability model for #FreetownTheTreeTown that includes a carbon offset investment platform linked to our digital tree database. [Read More]
Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2024: In January 2022, President Julius Maada Bio’s announcement of the Baimba Moiforay (LAC) Clemency revocation ignited a debate about the justice system and processes involved in granting clemency in Sierra Leone. However, two years later, the public remains in the dark, prompting [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2024: Former President of Sierra Leone Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, yesterday afternoon arrived in Abuja, Nigeria on board a plane belonging to the Nigerian president Bola Tinubu, after a month’s standoff between the government of Sierra Leone and ECOWAS, who had demanded the relocation of [Read More]
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