Our Correspondent Sierra Leone Telegraph: 20 May 2016 Visiting and holding high-level meetings in three cities in two weeks – Kigali and Nairobi in East Africa and Cape Town in Southern Africa, a cascade of appreciative and sustained applause followed one of Sierra Leone’s most recognized and globally respected citizens [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 19 May 2016 Last week, president Koroma’s APC government in partnership with the British Department for International Development (DFID), launched an ambitious programme, aimed at providing electricity to every household in Sierra Leone by 2025, to boost the economy, maintain vital public services such as healthcare, and [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 17 May 2016 As the people of Sierra Leone try to understand the reasons for the country’s poverty and poor ranking in every global performance index, the word ‘Munku’ is now being associated with, and used to describe not only the president himself, but his entire government [Read More]
Mohamed L. Kallon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 May 2016 It is high time Sierra Leoneans reflect deeply on some of the challenges facing the country, especially after last week’s presidential order, banning all peaceful protests within the vicinity of State House – the people’s House in the capital Freetown. Aristotle [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 14 May 2016 There is a saying that ‘when a wheelbarrow is empty, it makes more noise than a vuvuzela’. This goes for the APC funded media publishers, who parade themselves as journalists and minister plenipotentiaries, at the expense of the poor tax payer of Sierra Leone. [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 12 May 2016 President Koroma has today issued what has been described by critics as a tyrannical presidential order, banning all street protests heading towards State House. This order comes as tension rises in the capital, amid growing social and economic discontent. The worsening water and electricity [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 May 2016 Less than a day after British prime minister David Cameron referred to Nigeria as a “fantastically corrupt” country, president Buhari of Nigeria has hit back, calling for the UK to repatriate all stolen assets and wealth hidden by corrupt Nigerians in UK institutions. Speaking [Read More]
Raymond Dele Awoonor-Gordon Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 May 2016 Whoever has the ears of the President, should please tell him that the dividends of democracy in Sierra Leone, have not reached the door of the common man. That their hearts ache, because the trust they had in today being the [Read More]
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 9 May 2016 Former United Nations Under-Secretary-General and UNIDO Director-General – Dr. Kandeh Yumkella, left the shores of Freetown yesterday, Sunday, 8 May, to take part in a series of regional events taking place in Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa. In the Rwandan capital of Kigali, Dr. [Read More]
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