Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2025: Ahead of COP30 taking place next week in Belém, Brazil (10-21 November), the Mo Ibrahim Foundation has released a new research brief, Africa on the road to COP30: from Addis Ababa to Belém, reviewing the key outcomes from recent COP summits and setting out [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2025: Announced at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, where leaders are emphasizing locally driven adaptation, the four-year, $1.4 billion investment will expand access to innovations that help farmers across sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia adapt to extreme weather. In these regions, where food security and livelihoods [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2025: Rio in Brazil was buzzed with energy as over 300 mayors from around the world gathered for the C40 World Mayors Summit, held from 3–5 November 2025. A key precursor to COP30, the summit of mayors and global climate leaders provided [Read More]
Yusuf Bangura (Switzerland): Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2025: I shouldn’t allow the excitement of Zohran Mamdani’s extraordinary victory in New York City’s Mayoral election to pass without a few remarks, despite other demands on my time. For one thing, even though I’ve tuned out US national politics in my [Read More]
Dr Alhaji Umar N’jai: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 November 2025: Dear Sir, while you have been gone and not paying attention Sir, here are the other looming epidemics outside of the Kush/drug substance epidemic that needs your urgent attention: Examinations malpractice and cheating epidemic at all levels from schools to [Read More]
Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2025: President Julius Maada Bio last week announced new measures to confront Sierra Leone’s escalating Kush crisis, including the establishment of a special court dedicated to trying drug-related cases. The president also instructed the chief justice to develop a new sentencing practice direction [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2025: The World Bank Board of Directors last week approved an additional grant of $18.34 million to support Sierra Leone in enhancing biodiversity protection, environmental sustainability, and climate change resilience. This funding, provided through the Least Developed Countries Fund (LDCF) under the Global Environment Facility [Read More]
Deodat Maharaj: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2025: Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing our world. It has helped a few companies in developed countries set record-breaking profits. This week, Nvidia, a leading US AI company, hit a market value of USD5 trillion. Nvidia, together with the other six technology [Read More]
John Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 November 2025: Mayor of Freetown and Co-Chair of C40 Cities, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE, has arrived in Rio de Janeiro for the 2025 C40 World Mayors Summit. The event, co-hosted by Mayor Aki-Sawyerr Freetown Mayor and C40 Co-Chair, London Mayor and C40 Co-Chair Sadiq [Read More]
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