Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Climate action isn’t just about protecting the environment, it’s also a pathway to jobs, says Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr. In Sierra Leone, young people make up 62.5% of the population, yet nearly 70% of youth are unemployed, many of them in Freetown. Through the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Under the Transform Freetown – Transforming Lives roadmap, Freetown City Council (FCC) has prioritised public space cleaning through the clearance of illegal dumpsites, market cleaning, and daily street sweeping. With support from the World Bank, the initiative has created short-term employment for 4,425 residents [Read More]
Abdul Kandeh Turay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Decentralization was once hailed as one of Sierra Leone’s most progressive governance reforms, a deliberate strategy to bring development closer to the people and correct decades of marginalization identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). But today, the promise of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: Allied Irish Bank (AIB) is one of the two largest banks in Ireland and a long time funder of Irish NGO GOAL. In January of this year, a delegation from AIB led by Colin Hunt, AIB Chief Executive Officer, visited Sierra Leone to see [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the successful delivery of two major SAP S/4HANA system upgrades for Toyota South Africa Motors (Toyota), marking a significant milestone in the automotive leader’s enterprise-wide modernization journey. The projects, executed by IBM in collaboration with SAP, underscore IBM’s commitment [Read More]
Foday Moriba Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: Mohamed Sillah Bangura, a concerned Sierra Leonean citizen, has written to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice expressing deep concern over what he describes as “serious shortcomings” in the country’s autopsy procedures conducted at the Connaught Hospital mortuary. In a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: When Togolese filmmaker Angela Aquereburu created Ahoé, she wanted to tell a story that felt true to home — layered, emotional, and unmistakably Togolese. “Ahoé was made with a lot of love for our country, the people, for the stories,” Aquereburu said. This personal [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) underscores the remarkable progress made in the fight against measles over the past 24 years. Since 2000, global measles cases have fallen by 71%, dropping from an estimated 38 million to 11 million in 2024 [Read More]
Hassan Arouni: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: This week, Mr. Sheku Badara Bashiru Dumbuya, affectionately known to thousands of former pupils simply as SBB, turned 80 years old. Eighty is a milestone that invites reflection—not only on a man’s life but on the generations he shaped, strengthened, and set [Read More]
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