Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 February 2020 Five hundred young people from across the Commonwealth will have the opportunity to confront some of the biggest challenges facing the world at the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Rwanda. The Commonwealth Youth Forum will be held in Kigali from 20 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2020: A controversial decision by the Bio-led SLPP government to empower the National Civil Registration Authority (NCRA) to register every citizen living in the country by the end of March 2020 so as to be able to vote at public elections, has drawn fierce criticisms [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 February 2020: Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), on Monday 24th February, 2020, charged Komboh Kamara – a former ruling APC party member of Parliament, residing at 5 Carlos Drive, Goderich, Freetown to court for corruption. He has been charged with twenty-four counts of corruption offences, relating [Read More]
President Dr Julius Maada Bio today delivered an opening address at the government’s first-ever Presidential Seminar for all 83 heads of commissions, parastatals, agencies and state-owned enterprises at the Bintumani Conference Centre in Aberdeen, Freetown. The theme of the seminar is “Consolidating the Foundation for Service Delivery”, and is designed [Read More]
Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr OBE: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2020: In early October, the world celebrated as the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria declared its funding target of US$14billion to bring an end to the world’s three deadliest diseases was surpassed at the Sixth Replenishment Conference in France. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2020: The National Coordinator of the Network of Ex-Asylum Seekers – Mr Abdulai Daramy, today urged the government of Sierra Leone to resist the arbitrary deportation of ex-asylum seekers and refugees from the United States of America (USA) and some European countries to Sierra Leone. [Read More]
Abu Bakarr Tarawally: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 February 2020: The 2019 Taxation Perception Survey (TPS) Report was launched in Freetown today. It is the product of a research undertaken by the Public Financial Management (PFM) consortium, led by Christian Aid Sierra Leone, and four other partners including the Budget Advocacy [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2020: Last Friday, the African Development Bank called on development finance institutions, NGOs, farmer cooperatives, and the private sector to develop more effective financing solutions for Africa’s fertilizer value chains. The Bank’s call to action came during the Argus Africa Fertilizer Conference held on 19 [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 February 2020: President Dr Julius Maada Bio, who is also the Chancellor of the University of Sierra Leone (USL), yesterday urged thousands of young graduands of the university to become the entrepreneurs who will pioneer innovative local solutions that meet the needs of Sierra Leone and [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph Reserves Copyright