Sierra Leone Telegraph: 24 January 2017 Report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says that Sierra Leone has implemented the recommendations of the Enhanced General Data Dissemination System (e-GDDS), endorsed by the IMF Executive Board in May 2015. A National Summary Data Page (NSDP) has been published. (Photo: Screen shot). [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 January 2017 It is now over ten days since Julius Maada Bio – one of the leading presidential aspirants of the opposition SLPP and the party’s 2012 presidential candidate, made an appeal to the other presidential aspirants of the party with whom he is at war, [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2017 The radical progressive nationalist and SLPP presidential aspirant, Alie Badara Sanjan Kabba (Photo) is today on his way home from the USA, with an unwavering commitment to re-engage SLPP stakeholders in a renewed push to achieve lasting peace and unity in the party. Alie [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 January 2017 There was jubilation across The Gambia last night when reports of the former dictator Yahya Jammeh’s departure from the country were published. As the images of Jammeh boarding a plane bound for Guinea spread like wild fire, the people of The Gambia waved [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 21 January 2017 There are serious doubts tonight as to whether former president of The Gambia Yahya Jammeh has agreed to step down and leave the country, so as to allow the democratically elected president Adama Barrow to return from exile in neighbouring Senegal to form his [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 January 2017 In the next few hours the world will witness two very ugly faces of democracy, from across the Atlantic – one in Africa and the other in the USA. In America preparations are being made for the inauguration of Donald Trump – the controversial [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 January 2017 Doubts and concerns about the effectiveness and good governance of Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) are refusing to go away. One of the country’s human rights advocacy groups – the Campaign for Human Rights and Development International (CHRDI) is tonight accusing the ACC of [Read More]
Abdul-Jalilu Ateku Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 January 2017 In further escalation of the post-election crisis in The Gambia, President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency just a day before his official mandate was due to come to an end (Today, 19th January 2017). The announcement followed reports that a Nigerian warship was deployed off the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 January 2017 On this – the eve of Jammeh’s final day in power, the world waits to see whether he will step down from office tomorrow in line with the country’s constitution and the democratic will of the majority of Gambians who voted against him last [Read More]
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