Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 February 2020: Twenty nine passengers who arrived in Sierra Leone through the Lungi International Airport from China on 3rd February, 2020, have been quarantined in an undisclosed holding facility in Freetown. (Photo above: Corona virus screening at Lungi Airport in Freetown) They are being kept under [Read More]
Pa Baimba Sesay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2020: Chernor Ojuku Sesay was among five of us who returned home from overseas duty, having been sacked in 2018 as diplomats by the newly elected government of Sierra Leone. He was based at the Sierra Leone Embassy in Brussels, also covering [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 8 February 2020: President Julius Maada Bio this afternoon spoke at a panel discussion on the margins of the 33rd African Union Heads of State and Government Summit, taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, about his government’s efforts at combatting poverty and inequality in Sierra Leone. He [Read More]
Ishmael Kindama Dumbuya: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2020: The Minister of the Environment of Sierra Leone, Prof. Foday Moriba Jaward has launched the Sierra Leone Climate Change Adaptation Plan for Coastal Landscape Complex (CCAP) which sets the framework for a climate change adaptation plan that is geared towards increasing [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2020: Over a week ago, the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), urged the country’s Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning – Dr. Dennis Sandy, to go on the air and respond to the huge and growing public outcry regarding what has been described as [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 February 2020: On Wednesday, 5 February 2020, President Dr Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, urged South Africa’s leading mining investors, the chairperson of the parliamentary committee on minerals and energy, investment bankers, finance and stock exchange experts to lead the intra-African trade and investments strategic [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 February 2020: Heads of the United Nations Missions in West Africa held their 35th High-level Meeting Tuesday, 4 February 2020, in Dakar, Senegal, at the invitation of the Special Representative of the Secretary General and Head of the United Nations Office for West Africa and the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 February 2020: The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food For Progress (FFPr) Regional Cashew Value Chain Project is implementing a $38 million, six-year project in The Gambia, Senegal, and Guinea-Bissau which will enhance the regional cashew value chain to improve the trade of processed cashews [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 February 2020: Sierra Leone’s Campaign for Good Governance (CGG), yesterday published a statement calling on the Bio-led SLPP government to take urgent, lawful and thorough steps to curb the rising level of violence in the country. This is what the statement says: “Recent spates of violence [Read More]
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