Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2021: UK High Court on Monday dismissed Sierra Leone’s challenge of a 2020 International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) decision over claims by SL Mining after a dispute over its iron ore mining operations in the country. Formal arbitration proceedings have yet to begin as Sierra [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2021: WTO members made history yesterday, 15th of February, 2021 when the General Council agreed by consensus to select Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala of Nigeria as the organization’s seventh Director-General. When she takes office on 1 March, Dr Okonjo-Iweala will become the first woman and the first [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today concluded his two-day working visit to Conakry, Guinea where he and his Guinean counterpart signed an agreement to re-open the land border that has been closed since early last year. The communique states that: “Based on mutual [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2021: US based Africanist Press Media has today published another seriously incriminating report about grand corruption in the Bio-led SLPP government of Sierra Leone, as the country’s anti-graft agency – the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), is accused of waging a selective war on corruption. The Report [Read More]
WHO: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 February 2021: Health authorities in Guinea yesterday declared an outbreak of Ebola in the rural community of Gouéké in N’Zerekore prefecture after three Ebola cases were confirmed by the national laboratory, marking the first time the disease has been reported in the country since an [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021: Following confirmation yesterday by the Guinean Health Ministry that four people had died of Ebola at a hospital in the Guinean – Sierra Leone border town of Guerkedou, near the town of Yenga in eastern Sierra Leone, the government of Sierra Leone says it [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021: The Sierra Leone Telegraph has joined very loud calls in and outside of Sierra Leone for the reinstatement of a Union Trust Bank (UTB) employee – Mr. Garvyn Cole (Photo above), who was instantly dismissed last Thursday, after posting a message on the Facebook [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 February 2021: Guinea’s Health Ministry yesterday confirmed that four people have died of Ebola at a hospital in the Guinean – Sierra Leone border town of Guerkedou, near the town of Yenga in eastern Sierra Leone. There are fears this could spark a resurgence of the [Read More]
Kingsley Ighobor: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 13 February 2021: In December 2020 the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), the Freetown City Council (FCC) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) jointly launched the Freetown-Blue Peace project, an initiative that will leverage innovative finance to implement a sustainable water [Read More]
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