Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 August 2020: Newly appointed Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources – Musa Timothy Kabba and his Deputy – Mrs. Ann Marie Baby Harding, yesterday Monday took their oath of office in the presence of President Dr Julius Maada Bio at State House. President Bio congratulated his [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 August 2020: Sierra Leone police yesterday published a statement warning the public about a large quantity of fake dollars that are making the rounds in the country, which could create serious problem for the economy and fuel organsied crime. “The Sierra Leone Police (SLP) wishes to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2020: There was confusion and chaos at Sierra Leone’s Lungi International Airport last week, when passengers arriving at the airport from overseas were told to pay $80 for a COVID-19 test that does not exist. Hundreds of arrivals who had already taken COVID-19 test in [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 3 August 2020: The role of MPs in Sierra Leone’s parliament is about to be strengthened, should plans for the introduction of a ‘Question Time’ style procedure be accepted and formalised. The idea of parliamentary Question Time is not new. In many countries including Britain, MPs are [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2020: Last Thursday, President Dr Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone launched the country’s Post-Ebola Recovery Social Investment Fund (PERSIF) project, five years after the country was declared free of Ebola by WHO. The aim of the PERSIF project is to provide basic social services [Read More]
Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2020: With an unbelievable 5.4 percent recovered GDP in 2019, which was further projected to grow by 4.2 percent in 2020 but now expected to decline to 3.1 percent as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, Sierra Leone’s policymakers need a new [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 August 2020: To ask whether Africa needs term-timed Presidential democracy is bound to linger on the absurd. However, if Africa is to adopt, promote and remain democratically stable, is it worth looking again at Africa’s version of democracy? The widely held notion is that [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 July 2020: The government of Sierra Leone today received another major grant support from the World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA), to boost investments in the country’s Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) involved in the non-mining productive sectors. Sierra Leone’s economy must be diversified to [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 July 2020: Last Friday, the Sierra Leone Investment and Export Promotion Agency (SLIEPA) and other Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) visited one of Sierra Leone’s newest farm produce exporting companies – Fresh Salone (SL) Ltd in Kobbaya, Kaffu Bollum Chiefdom, in the Port Loko district, as [Read More]
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