Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 October 2018: The 2018 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) has been launched today by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation. It reports that public governance progress in Africa is lagging behind the needs and expectations of a growing population, composed mainly of young people. The 2018 IIAG [Read More]
Thomas Vandi Gbow: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 October 2018: According to report, about 30 activists last Tuesday staged a protest in front of the ING Bank in Brussels, Belgium, carrying billboards reading: “Stop toxic investments”, “reclaim human rights” and “stop green washing”. The activists, identified as part of a coalition [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 27 October 2018: Former president of Sierra Leone – Ernest Bai Koroma, has finally broken silence since his party lost the presidential and general elections held in March this year. According to report by APC stalwart – Chernor Ojuku Sesay, the former president was yesterday, Friday 26 [Read More]
Theophilus Sahr Gbenda: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2018: Recent developments around land governance and land ownership have left many with an impression that in the next five to ten years in Sierra Leone, issues around land will be a major flash point for bloody conflicts. Focusing on the Freetown [Read More]
Sitta Turay: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2018: Try walking on foot in Freetown today and face the hassle from motorists, pickpockets and open gutters with damaged slabs that may cost a broken leg. Traders have occupied the remaining footpaths that illegal structures are yet to occupy. Nothing is more [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 26 October 2018: Members of the Sierra Leone People’s Party North America Region (SLPPNA) will today converge in Bronx, New York for the party’s 2018 Annual Convention, taking place this weekend. Highlights of the convention include two full days of deliberations, breakout sessions, a stakeholder forum, and [Read More]
Leon Usigbe: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 October 2018: Young Africans celebrate the first fruit of ‘Not Too Young to Run’ Campaign. With few or no opportunities to emerge as candidates for elective offices – because they are too young or because they have limited experience – some young Africans are [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 25 October 2018: Sierra Leone has some of the highest reported rates of hepatitis B and C in the world, and now a free app is available to Sierra Leoneans fighting the disease. Speaking to the Sierra Leone Telegraph, Mark Pearce who is the Communications Manager for Hepatitis [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 October 2018: President Julius Maada Bio today hosted the deputy minister of foreign affairs of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – Yakoub Yusuf Alfu-Salim at State House in Freetown, where they discussed plans to strengthen bilateral ties between Sierra Leone and the UAE. The UAE envoy [Read More]
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