Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2025: Development is not just an economic issue; “it is also about how power and social differences are organised and managed for the benefit of all… To talk meaningfully about development is to talk about democracy and social cohesion,” writes Yusuf Bangura [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2025: The African Development Bank (AfDB) will play a key role in the 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9) taking place in Yokohama, Japan from 20-22 August. This year’s conference takes place at a critical time as Africa seeks to close investment gaps [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2025: An international review has found that Madagascar has laid strong foundations for cancer control, expanding cervical cancer services, maintaining a health workforce and ensuring collaboration between health and radiation safety authorities. The joint imPACT review by the IAEA, World Health Organization (WHO) and International [Read More]
Dr Mohamed Dawo (UK): Sierra Leone Telegraph:17 August 2025: Dr Kadi Sesay passed away two months ago in the United States on June 15, 2025. Her remains were brought home on Wednesday, July 16, by her daughter, international journalist Isha Sesay, accompanied by her uncle, Dr Mohamed Dawo. She was [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2025: In exactly a fortnight ago, some of us were lauding an orchestrated and successfully choreographed display of UNITY during the Sierra Leone People 14th National Delegates Conference. We spoke about the presence of obvious factions; camps groups and loyalties like in any [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 August 2025: “All power in Sierra Leone belongs to the people who exercise it through their elected representatives.” – 1961 Constitution. The 1991 Constitution of Sierra Leone was supposed to be the supreme law of the land – the legal fortress protecting our [Read More]
Kabs Kanu: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 August 2025: One of the bloodiest conflicts ever in Africa was the rebel war in Sierra Leone from 1990 to 2002. The war which devastated the country’s already crumbling infrastructure also killed over 150,000 people, created a colony of amputees and put the nation’s [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2025: According to the local lore, the song “Koko Ros” was composed by Dr. Orloh, in the wake of a personal rupture – his divorce. On the surface, it is draped in melody and rhythm. Beneath that, it is an allegorical jab [Read More]
Dr Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 August 2025: In any true democracy, civil society is meant to be the voice of the people and the watchdog that keeps government on its toes. But in Sierra Leone, that watchdog seems to have turned into something else entirely. Sierra Leone’s civil society [Read More]
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