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Editorial

Kandeh Yumkella arrives home after a week-long engagement abroad

October 5, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 13

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 5 October 2015 Sierra Leone’s presidential hopeful – Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella arrived back in Freetown yesterday evening, after a week-long engagement at the UN in New York and then attending the G20 Summit in Istanbul, Turkey. Speaking with the editor of the Sierra Leone Telegraph – [Read More]

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Sierra Leone government receives $16 million from World Bank to create jobs 

October 4, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 3

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 4 October 2015 Most credible economists would tell you that government does not create sustainable employment opportunities, only the private sector can. They will further argue that the role of government is to create the necessary conditions that are conducive for private entrepreneurs to invest and create [Read More]

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Sierra Leone counting down to Ebola freedom is long and costly

October 2, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 2 October 2015 The people of Sierra Leone, after sixteen long months of battling against the deadly Ebola virus, have once again started the countdown to being declared an Ebola free country. But this is not going to be easy.  Although the last two known Ebola patients [Read More]

Editorial

Ernest Koroma delivered a poor speech at the UN General Assembly

September 30, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 5

Messeh Leone Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 September 2015 Disgracefully, Ernest Koroma’s first and worst mistake in delivering that speech at the UN, was to spend time praising other world leaders, whilst ignoring the efforts of his people fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone. He failed to start his speech with the [Read More]

Editorial

My government is not responsible for the floods in Sierra Leone – blame climate change

September 29, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

President Koroma speaks at the UN   Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2015 President Koroma has refused to accept responsibility on behalf of his government, for the destruction and loss of life caused by floods, after torrential rainfall, which his government had previously been warned could be devastating. Speaking at [Read More]

News in Perspective

Kandeh Yumkella on the waves of global success

September 29, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 September 2015 Dr. Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella has been appointed as one of the commissioners of the new Global Energy Transition Commission. (Photo: Yumkella winning the warm approbation of multibillionnaire Chief Elumelu).  Kandeh is the only African to be appointed to the Commission, and joins an elite [Read More]

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Public protest awaiting President Koroma at the UN General Assembly 

September 28, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 2

Dennis Kabatto Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2015 When Sierra Leone’s President Ernest B. Koroma delivers his address on Tuesday at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), he will face a concerted protest by Concerned Sierra Leoneans USA (CSLUSA). In an invitation to Sierra Leoneans in [Read More]

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Sierra Leone government officials and their unexplained wealth

September 28, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 1

Eddie Vandy Sierra Leone Telegraph: 28 September 2015 Sierra Leone’s Anti-Corruption Czar – Mr. Joseph Kamara (Photo) has recently had his $11,200 monthly salaried contract renewed for another five years; and in his own words: to ‘continue the path to rid the country of corruption.’ But how effective is he, [Read More]

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Kandeh Yumkella hits back at SLPP party grandee Abass Bundu 

September 23, 2015 Abdul Rashid Thomas 19

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 23 September 2015 The division within the opposition SLPP, fuelled by the row over the membership status of presidential hopeful – Dr. Kandeh Yumkella seems to be getting wider and deeper. Despite rallying calls by the party chairman – Chief Kapen for unity and constitutionality to reign [Read More]

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