UN Office for Disarmament Affairs: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 December 2020: Seven African countries are currently completing efforts to collect illegally held weapons as part of a continent-wide annual amnesty period. (Photo: Weapons destruction in the Central African Republic during the September Africa Amnesty Month. Photo Credit: UNODA). This follows [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 December 2020: For many Sierra Leoneans who had feared a change of government in 2018 may simply usher in more of the same corruption and poor governance, today’s publishing of the country’s Auditor General’s 2019 Report into the SLPP government’s management of public funds, confirms those [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph; 17 December 2020: Femi Claudius Cole is the founder of the Unity Party in Sierra Leone. In 2018, she ran for the office of President and remains the only female party leader in Sierra Leone. Madam Cole spoke yesterday live on Sierra Gem Media about the government’s [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2020: The Parliament of Sierra Leone yesterday, Wednesday 16th December 2020, debated and ratified the Lungi Freetown International Airport expansion project agreement between the government of Sierra Leone and the Russian owned Summa Airports (SL) Limited. The aim of the project is to expand Lungi [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2020: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today announced that it has received ONE BILLION LEONES (LE 1,000,000,000.00) from the Sierra Leone Cement Corporation (LEOCEM), “as settlement for issues relating to unmetered electricity abstraction from the National Grid of the Electricity Distribution and Supply Authority (EDSA).” This [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2020: After our report yesterday about the safety of Dr Sylvia Olayinka Blyden, who we now understand escaped police arrest yesterday afternoon and is now in safe refuge in an undisclosed location, the Sierra Leone Telegraph has tried to obtain a statement from the government [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2020: After over a decade of trying to win the US Millennium Challenge Corporation’s (MCC) major grant funding award, which for many African countries run into hundreds of millions of dollars, Sierra Leone has at long last succeeded. It is not yet clear how much [Read More]
Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 December 2020: Sierra Leone’s elections watchdog – the National Election Watch (NEW) has condemned President Bio’s Minister of Lands for perpetrating what can best be described as gangsterism and machismo during the conduct of the Parliamentary re-run election in Constituency 110. In a Press [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 December 2020: The Gambia has announced plans to launch a national ‘NO MORE’ campaign against domestic and sexual violence. Fatou Kinteh, Gambian Minister for Women’s Affairs, Children and Social Welfare, joined the Commonwealth Secretary-General in Banjul when she made her commitment on Human Rights Day. When [Read More]
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