Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2022: IFC has appointed Kyle Kelhofer as Senior Country Manager for Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Togo. Kelhofer, who previously worked for IFC in Ghana, brings almost 30 years of global development experience to his new role supporting private sector growth, job creation, and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2022: Yesterday, President Julius Maada Bio renewed his government’s commitment to working with stakeholders and development partners to address people trafficking – a form of modern-day slavery that constitutes a crime against the individual and the state. In his keynote statement to the opening of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 March 2022: The current Chair of the African Union and President of the Republic of Senegal, Macky Sall, and the Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat (Photo), are following closely the developments in Ukraine and are said to be particularly disturbed by reports [Read More]
James Fallah-Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2022: Sierra Leone’s Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Security, Dr. Abu Bakarr Karim, is personally benefiting from the horrific and most ruinous illegal logging Sierra Leone has ever seen. The ministry is one of the most corrupt in the country, and it [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2022: Following last week’s controversial decision by the minister of local government – Tamba Lamina to shut down the Freetown City Council’s Mayor’s Delivery Unit, based on recommendations of an investigations report into the management of the Council, the main opposition All People’s Congress Party [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2022: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) which is led by Francis Ben Kaifala is urging all public officials including elected politicians and ministers, to ensure that they declare their assets before the end of March. In a Public Notice published on the 24th of February [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2022: After two years in prison for a bailable offence which the government of Sierra Leone is refusing to honour, opposition leader Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray may die behind bars if access to urgent medical surgery for cancer is not provided. Mohamed Kamarainba Mansaray was arrested [Read More]
Amin Kef Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2022: Florence Charley – wife of the late Assistant Inspector General of Sierra Leone’s police Joseph Pizarro Christian Charley (popularly known as AIG Chris Charley), is suing the Minister of Health and Sanitation, the Medical Superintendent (Officer In Charge) of 34 Military [Read More]
African Energy Chamber: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 February 2022: With recent sanctions on Russia by western nations threatening the critical supply of Russian gas to European markets, an opportunity has emerged for African gas producers to step up, enhancing hydrocarbon production and exports to meet international supply gaps. Significant progress [Read More]
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