Jemimah Njuki and Ndey Oley Cole: Siera Leone Telegraph: 20 December 2025: The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign is an international campaign led by the United Nations to challenge violence against women and girls. From 25 November – 10 December, this year’s 16 Days campaign targets how [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 December 2025: “The entry into the United States of nationals of Sierra Leone as immigrants and as non-immigrants is hereby fully suspended.” That’s the chilling message Sierra Leoneans have woken up to this morning from US President Trump. What started as a partial travel ban on [Read More]
John Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Have you ever wondered why it is so difficult to get people to adapt to change, even on the most basic issues? I have seen firsthand the tremendous effort that goes into addressing the waste-management challenge in Freetown. One moment, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Climate action isn’t just about protecting the environment, it’s also a pathway to jobs, says Freetown Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr. In Sierra Leone, young people make up 62.5% of the population, yet nearly 70% of youth are unemployed, many of them in Freetown. Through the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Under the Transform Freetown – Transforming Lives roadmap, Freetown City Council (FCC) has prioritised public space cleaning through the clearance of illegal dumpsites, market cleaning, and daily street sweeping. With support from the World Bank, the initiative has created short-term employment for 4,425 residents [Read More]
Abdul Kandeh Turay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 December 2025: Decentralization was once hailed as one of Sierra Leone’s most progressive governance reforms, a deliberate strategy to bring development closer to the people and correct decades of marginalization identified by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). But today, the promise of [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: Allied Irish Bank (AIB) is one of the two largest banks in Ireland and a long time funder of Irish NGO GOAL. In January of this year, a delegation from AIB led by Colin Hunt, AIB Chief Executive Officer, visited Sierra Leone to see [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the successful delivery of two major SAP S/4HANA system upgrades for Toyota South Africa Motors (Toyota), marking a significant milestone in the automotive leader’s enterprise-wide modernization journey. The projects, executed by IBM in collaboration with SAP, underscore IBM’s commitment [Read More]
Foday Moriba Conteh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 November 2025: Mohamed Sillah Bangura, a concerned Sierra Leonean citizen, has written to the Attorney General and Minister of Justice expressing deep concern over what he describes as “serious shortcomings” in the country’s autopsy procedures conducted at the Connaught Hospital mortuary. In a [Read More]
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