Sierra Leone Telegraph: 22 September 2024: Applications for the 2025 Ibrahim Leadership Fellowship are now open. The Ibrahim Leadership Fellowships are a 12-month programme designed to support the professional development of future African leaders. The Fellowship programme invites emerging leaders from across Africa to apply to join the 2025 cohort [Read More]
Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 September 2024: The Free Quality Education (FQE) initiative, launched by President Bio’s administration with the promise of ensuring “every child has access to quality education,” was initially hailed as a transformative policy. (Photo: Abdul Karim Kamara MP, the opposition’s Parliamentary Chief Whip). Many [Read More]
James Kamara-Manneh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 September 2024: In February 2024, the streets of Freetown witnessed the introduction of Waka Fine buses – a project widely hailed as a government initiative meant to ease transportation challenges for the ordinary Sierra Leonean. These buses, proudly branded with the national colours of [Read More]
New study finds ten cities alone across three continents, from Bogotá (Colombia) and Amman (Jordan) to Freetown (Sierra Leone) and Karachi (Pakistan) should prepare for significant climate migration in coming years Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 September 2024: The groundbreaking new research has set out the scale and impact of climate [Read More]
Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2024: In yet another grim reminder of Sierra Leone’s growing building safety crisis, a seven-story structure on Shell Bai Bureh Road in Freetown crumbled to the ground yesterday, Monday, 16th September 2024, leaving dozens trapped underneath the rubble and several feared dead. [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2024:. As Sierra Leone’s politics oscillates between the SLPP and APC, it sometimes takes a lot of effort, reflection and in most cases honest humility to come to terms with losing an election. It is gnawingly more difficult when such results are mired [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 September 2024: As part of the ongoing security cooperation between the United States and Sierra Leone, the Michigan National Guard (MING) and the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces (RSLAF) formally established a State Partnership Program (SPP) in a signing ceremony in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Dignitaries [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2024: Dr. David Moinina Sengeh, the Chief Minister of the Republic of Sierra Leone, discusses the justice sector strategy launched by President Julius Maada Bio and the signing of the Criminal Procedure Act. He emphasizes key principles such as inclusive justice, fairness, accessibility, support for [Read More]
Mackie M. Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 September 2024: President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone, last Thursday unveiled the much-anticipated Justice Sector Reform Strategy 2024-2030 at the New Brookfields Hotel in Freetown, marking a significant milestone in Sierra Leone’s quest for a more efficient and equitable judicial system. The [Read More]
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