Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2025: More than 250 African city leaders – including mayors, city officials, national policymakers, investors, and business leaders – will gather in Nairobi today for the Green & Resilient UrbanShift Africa Forum, funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), hosted by C40 Cities (Photo above: [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2025: The Reaching Every Child in Humanitarian Settings (REACH) consortium has officially administered 9 million vaccine doses to children in humanitarian and conflict-affected regions across the Horn of Africa. REACH is funded by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi) and led by the International Rescue Committee [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 February 2025: Africa’s economic performance is showing signs of improvement but remains vulnerable to global shocks, according to the 2025 Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook (MEO) report released by the African Development Bank on Friday. The report, unveiled on the sidelines of the 38th Ordinary Session of [Read More]
Deodat Maharaj: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2025: The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development could catalyse coordinated action to close the financing gap and set the stage for a STI-driven transformation in the world’s poorest countries. (Photo above: Deodat Maharaj). The stark reality is that just over 250 [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2025: Leadership is a sacred trust, a duty to serve, and a commitment to uplift the people who entrust their fate to a government. But in Sierra Leone, leadership has become something else, a weapon of coercion, a means of suppression, and [Read More]
Abdulai Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2025: Captain Ibrahim Traore took power in Burkina Faso on 30th September 2022, citing former President Paul Henri-Damiba’s inability to deal with the country’s worsening armed uprising as the raison d’etre for his military intervention. Paul Henri-Damiba, who had also ousted his predecessor [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 February 2025: Nearly 6,000km separate our cities of Freetown and Nairobi. Our cities are a continent apart with vastly different populations, economies and cultures but we are united – along with so many African cities – in standing on the frontline of positive climate action. We [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2025: The fact that Africans still require visas to enter most African countries, remains one of the starkest contradictions to the continent’s aspirations for regional integration. In this ninth edition of the Africa Visa Openness Index (AVOI), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the African [Read More]
Alpha Amadu Jalloh: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 February 2025: For decades, Sierra Leone has been hailed by many as the “Athens of Africa,” a land of immense potential, rich heritage, and untapped promise. Yet beneath this illustrious veneer lies a bitter truth, a truth masked by sugar-coated promises and institutional [Read More]
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