Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2025: On Saturday, 20 December 2025, Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, accompanied by councillors and staff of the Freetown City Council (FCC), toured six project sites implemented by grantees of the Bloomberg Youth Climate Action Fund. The visit showcased innovative, youth-led initiatives aimed at addressing the [Read More]
John Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2025: The dirty secret of development is that it is never neutral, and it is never painless. Every serious attempt at national transformation threatens someone’s power, privilege, or access to resources. That is why development so often stalls, not for lack [Read More]
Zainab Tunkara Clarkson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2025: As global attention cautiously drifts back to West Africa, a troubling narrative is beginning to take shape. Shifts in rhetoric from Western political figures including U.S. President Donald Trump’s blunt foreign-policy worldview are reviving familiar anxieties about Nigeria’s political future. For [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2025: Côte d’Ivoire has taken an additional important step toward guaranteeing access to clean water with the inauguration of the urban water supply system for the Sub-Prefecture of Galébré. This is one of the first systems completed under the country’s national Water for All (Eau [Read More]
John Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 December 2025: In presenting the 2026 Budget Statement to Parliament, the Minister of Finance described it as a “pro-poor and pro-people budget”. As a citizen, I reviewed the statement, guided both by the promises made and by the realities of our recent [Read More]
FCC Communications: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2025: On Wednesday 17 December, Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, joined young people from across Africa at the Dream Model United Nations Conference 2025, hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Freetown. The conference brought together forward-thinking youth, actively engaged in [Read More]
George Shadrack Kamanda: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2025: A student holding an offer of admission to a U.S. university is now wondering whether years of preparation still count. By a way of example, a lawful permanent resident is staring at an approved petition, asking why a spouse cannot yet [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2025: On the humid Atlantic edge of Accra, where the Gulf of Guinea exhales history into the present, Africa once again gathered to wrestle with its oldest and most unsettling question: whether unity on this vast and varied continent is a destiny [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2025: Yango Group, a global tech company, has announced the next chapter of its Yango Fellowship; a program designed to unlock the potential of STEM talent across Africa. By providing mentorship, resources, and networks, the Fellowship helps participants turn ideas into solutions that benefit their [Read More]
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