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Education and Health

UICC launches three-year campaign to create more equitable access to cancer services

February 3, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 February 2022: Tomorrow, 4th of  February, the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) will launch a new three-year campaign for World Cancer Day that brings together individuals, organisations and governments around the world in an effort to create awareness and help close the gap in cancer care. The [Read More]

Education and Health

We can win the war against infectious disease with data!

February 3, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

FII Institute: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 February 2022: Health has become the world’s top priority. From the pandemic’s start to today’s Omicron variant, COVID-19’s impact on our planet has been unprecedented, with millions dying from catastrophic social and economic devastation. Healthcare is one of the four main priorities of the [Read More]

Politics & Law

Several prisoners discharged or granted bail in a bid to decongest prisons in Sierra Leone

February 3, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 February 2022: Twenty six High Court Judges have been posted across Sierra Leone to review the sentences, and in some cases – detention without charge meted out to over one thousand people, including teenagers, in a week-long crusade by the country’s Chief Justice to improve access [Read More]

Politics & Law

Tribunal set up to investigate Sierra Leone’s Auditor General has stalled – Op ed

February 3, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 February 2022: It is now clear that those who orchestrated the suspension of Lara Taylor-Pearce just wanted the independent Auditor General out of the way. It is also crystal clear that those who masterminded her removal from office on grounds of “professional conduct or [Read More]

Politics & Law

Human Rights Commission of Sierra Leone launches inquiry into conduct of the police and military

February 1, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 February 2022: Sierra Leone’s Human Rights Commission (HRCSL) yesterday issued a notice saying that it is conducting a “public inquiry into the conduct of law enforcement officials”, following a spate of disturbing reports of abuse of power by the country’s security forces – both police and [Read More]

Politics & Law

Over one thousand prisoners in Sierra Leone to receive judicial review to relieve overcrowding

January 31, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2022: The Judiciary of Sierra Leone last Friday announced that it will review the convictions of over 1,000 inmates as part of what it describes as effort to increase access to justice and decongest Correctional Centres across the country. This week,  31st January 2022 to [Read More]

Economy & Business

AfDB announces $30 million for Guinea Bissau’s infrastructure, budget and governance support

January 31, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2022: African Development Bank Group (AfDB) President Dr Akinwumi A. Adesina has announced a financial package of $30 million dollars to the West African nation of Guinea -Bissau. Adesina made the announcement last Friday during a visit to Bissau, where he met President Umaro Sissoco [Read More]

Economy & Business

AfDB approves $10 million grant to enhance Liberia’s climate Information systems

January 31, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2022: The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $10 million grant from the Green Climate Fund, for which the Bank is the accredited agency, to improve Liberia’s early warning weather systems. The project will also receive $431,969 from the [Read More]

Politics & Law

Take away the dictators’ instruments of violence and coercive control – their guns

January 31, 2022 Abdul Rashid Thomas 4

Dauda Yillah: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 31 January 2022: Events that occurred in Burkina Faso just a week ago go to prove further that the contagion of military takeovers once considered dead and buried in our West African subregion has re-emerged with a vengeance. Sudden and violent regime change is back [Read More]

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