Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: In any functioning democracy, opposition parties serve as the counterweight to power. They are the necessary check that ensures the ruling government does not overreach, abuse authority, or govern with impunity. But in Sierra Leone today, the opposition All People’s Congress [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: When the Minister of Local Government and Community Affairs, Ambassador Tamba Lamina, stood before the media at the Ministry of Information and Civic Education on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, he unveiled a sweeping plan to create two new districts, carve up [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has released the 2025 Facts & Figures: Financing the Africa We Want Report, ahead of this year’s Ibrahim Governance Weekend (IGW), which will take place in Marrakech, Morocco, from 1-3 June, under the High Patronage of His Majesty King Mohammed VI. The [Read More]
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: “Migration is not a problem to solve, but an opportunity to seize,” says Walter Kasempa, AU/IOM Migration Ambassador. As the most mobile and fastest-growing demographic on the continent, youth are both drivers and beneficiaries of migration. Whether searching [Read More]
Jimmy Kandeh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: It’s a story of a once-spirited horse, now gasping for its final breath, fully aware that the end is nigh. Attempts at resuscitation are sporadic, half-hearted, and even those administering them seem to know the game is up. This isn’t just a [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID), the African Trade & Investment Development Insurance (ATIDI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening support for the private sector in the West African sub-region. The memorandum, which was signed on May 29, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: Roads in Kenge, Kikwit, Tshikapa, Kamuensha, and Mbuji-Mayi have been completely rehabilitated, new stretches of road built, and urban roads modernized. Numerous examples of socioeconomic infrastructure have also benefited from the financial support of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB), helping to transform the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: Sidi Ould Tah of Mauritania has been elected President of the African Development Bank Group at the Bank’s Annual Meetings held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Tah was on the 29th of May, elected by the Bank’s Board of Governors, comprising Finance and Economy Ministers [Read More]
Divya Rajagopal/Reuters: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 01 June 2025: Reuters reported last week that Barrick Mining (ABX.TO), has asked the arbitration tribunal of the World Bank to intervene in legal proceedings in Mali, as the miner faces the possibility of the Loulo-Gounkoto mine falling under the control of the Mali government. [Read More]
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