Sierra Leone Telegraph: 06 January 2021: Output in the Sub-Saharan Africa region contracted by an estimated 3.7% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns disrupted economic activity. As a result, per capita income shrank by 6.1% in 2020, setting average living standards back by at least a decade [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 January 2021: Twenty-two years ago, Sierra Leone was up in flames. The capital Freetown was under siege, as rebels belonging to the Revolutionary United Force (RUF) and former renegade soldiers of the country’s army – the AFRC, turned their guns and machetes on innocent civilians. Thousands [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 January 2021: President Dr Julius Maada Bio has today granted Sierra Leonean citizenship to 22 African Americans who traced their origin to Sierra Leone through DNA results, most of them with roots to Bo and Tonkolili districts. Handing over Sierra Leone’s passports to the newly pronounced [Read More]
Sierra Leone High Commission in Kenya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 January 2021: The staff of the Sierra Leone High Commission in Kenya and the Sierra Leonean Community in Kenya mourns the death of Mr. Peter Joseph Francis, the Sierra Leone High Commissioner to the Republic of Kenya, who passed away [Read More]
ACC Public Relations Office: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 January 2021: The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) hereby informs the general public that it has recovered the sum of Five Million, Two Hundred and Sixteen Thousand, Four Hundred Leones (Just over Four Hundred Pounds Sterling), which, according to the COVID-19 Audit Report 2020, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 03 January 2021: President Julius Maada Bio last Friday ordered the release of hundreds of prisoners across the country who are serving sentence for various crimes, including the country’s former minister of defence – retired Major Palo Conteh. Palo Conteh was serving a two-year jail-term, after he [Read More]
Dr. Samura Kamara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 January 2021: My dear compatriots at home and abroad, a year has gone by, and as always, we are thankful to All Mighty God for keeping us going, throughout this unusually difficult and challenging year. We should be particularly grateful for His grace [Read More]
Abraham Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 January 2021: Typically, end of year presidential speeches should be inspirational and uplifting moments for nations that have gone through a lot, especially a year like 2020 which everyone is so relieved to see the back off. These are moments when the head [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 02 January 2021: Last Wednesday, President Bio’s government announced that it has revised its process of screening all passengers arriving at the Lungi International Airport, following an alarming increase in the number of reported new cases in the country. This worrying upsurge in infection rate in Sierra [Read More]
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