Dr Yusuf Bangura (Switzerland): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: US President Trump is viscerally opposed to foreign aid. As a transactionalist, he believes that there should be immediate returns to himself or the US for whatever money or favours he dispenses. He doesn’t believe in soft power. Indeed, his [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 April 2025: An increase in vaccine coverage in Africa is helping protect millions of people from life-threatening diseases such as measles, polio and cervical cancer, according to a joint statement published yesterday by the Vaccine Alliance – Gavi, UNICEF, World Health Organization (WHO). In 2023, vaccination [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 April 2025: The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, will be presented with the 2021 Lawrence C. Nussdorf Urban Leadership Prize at the University of Pennsylvania, USA this Friday 25th April. The 2021 award presentation was delayed due to COVID-related restrictions that prevented in-person gatherings. This special [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: The ECOWAS Commission through the Regional Off-Grid Electricity Access Project (ROGEAP) organized in collaboration with the Standards Organization of Nigeria (SON) and the Federal Ministry of Energy from 14 to 15 April 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria a seminar for more than 25 Nigerian experts [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: African health experts have renewed commitment to accelerate efforts to end Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs) that continue to affect over a billion people globally, 40% of whom live in the African region. Meeting in Togo from 15 to 17 April 2025 for the NTD [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: Following active participation in the 2025 ECOSOC Youth Forum at United Nations Headquarters, the Youth Charter is issuing a call for a more youth-centred and action-oriented global communiqué. This call urges the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and all Member States to elevate [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 April 2025: Our nation, and especially Freetown have been gripped by a spate of fire incidents recently. The State House, the Military hospital (34) and a maternal unit in Makeni hospital have all made the news for the wrong reasons. Fires do take place [Read More]
Sheriff Mahmud Ismail (Abuja,Nigeria) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: On Saturday April 5, 2025, I accompanied Sierra Leone’s former President Ernest Bai Koroma to the 8th African Leadership Forum (ALF) in Kampala, Uganda. The Forum, held from 7th to 8th at the Munyonyo Speke Resort, was co-organized by the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 April 2025: On April 14th, 2025, the Ministry of Information and Civic Education in Sierra Leone issued a press release heralding what it described as a successful conclusion of the recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission to the country. But beyond the polished language and cherry-picked [Read More]
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