The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 May 2014 It seems the whole world is now waking up and getting ready for concerted and decisive offensive against Boko Haram, after abducting 200 schoolgirls in north-eastern Nigeria, whom they are now threatening to sell into slavery, contrary to Islamic principles. Boko Haram is [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 May 2014 Africa’s oil and gas industry is making a huge impact on the global market. It is playing a significant part in helping to stem the economic recession that has seen global manufacturing production reduced to historical levels, as oil and raw materials prices [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 7 May 2014 Sierra Leone’s minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation Samura Kamara (Photo: centre), arrived in the United Arab Emirates last Monday to attend the Abu Dhabi ASCENT Climate Change meeting, and to discuss trade, investment opportunities and bilateral relations with the UAE government. The [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2014 Dear Mr. President Extension of the Presidential Term Limit On January 27, 2014, I wrote you an open letter on the amendment of Section 79 (1) of the National Constitution of Sierra Leone 1991, in which your Government introduced entirely new qualifications for [Read More]
Elias Bangura The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 6 May 2014 The parliamentary committee on mines and mineral resources was in the Koinadugu district on a three-day working visit last week, where they inspected and discussed mining activities in the district, especially companies engaged in exploration. Following recent clashes and violent confrontation [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 May 2014 Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Chief – Joseph Kamara (Photo) has faced fierce criticisms recently, after several botched corruption investigations, and failure to consistently win court cases involving top officials in the Koroma government. Critics say that he is impotent to act strongly and decisively [Read More]
Yusuf Keketoma Sandi The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 May 2014 Former head of state of the Republic of Sierra Leone – Julius Maada Bio, and his wife Fatima Bio are focussing attention on the needs of vulnerable groups in Sierra Leone, as poverty continues to rise. They have established a [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 May 2014 The Africa Progress Panel will release its annual Africa Progress Report at the ‘World Economic Forum on Africa’, which will be held in Abuja, Nigeria on Thursday, 8th May 2014. The theme of this year’s report is ‘Grain, Fish, Money – Financing Africa’s [Read More]
The Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 April 2014 Sierra Leone’s hard won peace, after ten years of brutal civil war, which took the lives of over 200,000 people, leaving thousands amputated is today under attack, as ‘political greed and selfishness’ once again rears its ugly head. (Photo: President Koroma). Political and [Read More]
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