Albert David KAMARA: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: What is unfolding inside the SLPP today is not politics, it is a full‑scale institutional hijack. The First Lady’s nationwide political parade, powered by state vehicles, state security, public funds, government media, and a carefully planted network of loyalists inside the [Read More]
SHIBUYA (Japan) Sierra Leone Telegraph: 04 September 2026: Ask what Africa needs to secure its economic future, and the answers tend to follow a familiar script: capital, technology and infrastructure. Rarely does ‘data’ make the list. Yet, data sovereignty, the ability to collect, control and act on reliable information about [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 August 2026: Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) has announced additional funding to support Bundibugyo virus disease (BVD) outbreak response. New funding of US$7 million will be deployed to provide 70,000 doses of the Ervebo vaccine through the global Ebola vaccine stockpile. A further US$ 6 million [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2026: One of West Africa’s oldest and historic markets established during the slave trade, which saw hundreds of thousands – if not millions of Africans, shipped across the ocean to America to work on plantations, is to be rebuilt into a modern indoor market. The [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 August 2026: Across East and Southern Africa, governments, regional institutions and women’s rights advocates are driving a growing movement to tackle one of the continent’s most persistent challenges: violence against women and girls. At the same time, they are advancing a parallel agenda to strengthen care [Read More]
Oumar Farouk Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: President Julius Maada Bio may soon face one of the most consequential decisions of his presidency: whether to sign a constitutional amendment into law, a step already shadowed by a serious procedural dispute before the Supreme Court. This is not merely [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: The Government of Sierra Leone, through the Ministry of Gender and Children’s Affairs (MoGCA) in partnership with UN Women today launches the Gender Accountability Framework and the 2025 Annual Report on the Implementation of the Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE) Act 2022, marking [Read More]
Lawrence Williams: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: In an open letter dated 18th August 2026, lawyer Melron Nicol-Wilson argues that the passage of the 1991 Constitution (Amendment) Bill 2025 on 10th August 2026 was unconstitutional. The central objection is that the Speaker wrongly applied Section 91(1), which governs ordinary [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 August 2026: Sungrow, the globally leading PV inverter and energy storage system (ESS) provider, has successfully commissioned the RESPITE Solar-plus-Storage Project in Sierra Leone, marking the country’s first major national-scale power generation project completed and connected to the grid in nearly a decade. The project features [Read More]
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