Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 November 2023: Sierra Leone’s senior military commanders and the minister of information today spoke at a press conference for the first time since the attempted coup last Sunday 26th November 2023. Chernor Bah, minister of information confirmed that the armed attack at the Wilberforce military ammunition [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28th November 2023: Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr today chaired the 2nd Ordinary Meeting of the Fifth Council of the Freetown City Council. After the meeting she said: “We’ve had a very spirited engagement with the full involvement of the Deputy Mayor, Councillors, the new Chief Administrator and the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 November 2023: When the wife of President Bio announced a while ago that the president has a PhD in staging coups, many dismissed her as a buffoon. But since then, there has been no fewer than three alleged attempted coups in Sierra Leone in which, despite [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 November 2023: President Bio of Sierra Leone has this morning declared curfew as the country’s military and armed police take to the streets to stabilise the capital, following an attempted coup by unknown persons. Addressing the nation through his Facebook page, president Bio whose whereabout is [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 November 2023: Attempts at unseating Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio continue in the early hours of this Sunday morning, when a group of unknown soldiers and police officers broke into the capital’s main ammunition stores at the Wilberforce Barracks, taking away heavy weapons. Gunshots were [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 November 2023: President Bio has officially welcomed members of the Cross-Party National Elections Review Committee which has been set up in line with the peace accord signed by the ruling SLPP and the main opposition APC last month, marking the end of hostilities between the two [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 November 2023: Shipments of the world’s first WHO-recommended malaria vaccine, RTS,S, have begun with 331,200 doses landing last night in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The delivery is the first to a country not previously involved in the malaria vaccine pilot programme and signals that scale-up of vaccination against [Read More]
Lansana Gberie: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 November 2023: On 14 June, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) issued his flagship annual report, Global Trends: Forced Displacement 2022. It states that by the end of 2022, the number of people displaced by war, persecution, violence and human rights abuse had dramatically [Read More]
Funmi Adewara: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 November 2023: Founder and CEO of Mobihealth International, Funmi Adewara, leverages the diaspora and local doctors to deliver telemedicine and digital health services to underserved populations. My name is Funmi Adewara, a Nigerian-British medical doctor. I was born and brought up in the northern [Read More]
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